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1997 Brandon Tartikoff, TV executive (NBC), dies at 48
1997 Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman and Robin), dies of heart failure at 40
1996 Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
1996 Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies
1996 Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61
1995 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78
1995 Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88
1995 Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70
1994 Roberto Goyeneche, El Polaco, Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies
1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
1991 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1991 Vince Taylor, Brian Holden, British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1990 Raymond St. Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1981 Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1980 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1979 Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82
1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1977 George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1977 Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1975 Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1971 Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, dies at 67
1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
1969 Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies
1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
1968 Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1967 Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
1965 Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
1965 Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret, Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1965 Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
1964 Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
1964 Gracie Allen, actress (Burns and Allen), dies at 62
1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
1962 Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
1958 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57
1958 Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist
1955 Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
1953 Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1949 Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
1948 Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74
1948 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge
1943 Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1937 Andrew Mellon, American Businessman
1931 Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
1931 Frank Harris, Irish Author
1930 Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
1922 Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
1919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies
1914 John Weiss, German new testament, dies
1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1887 Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
1883 August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
1879 Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1874 Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
1874 John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
1868 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
1867 Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
1865 Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author
1855 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
1846 Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64
1846 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
1841 Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
1840 William Kneass, 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1830 Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1828 Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1827 Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1748 James Thomson, dies
1746 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1667 Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
1651 Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1635 Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright
1611 Tomas L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1608 Hendrik van Kinschot, Henricus Kinschotus, lawyer, dies at 66
1590 Sixtus V, Felice Peretti/"Montalto", Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
1576 Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague
1522 Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75
1521 Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1208 Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies











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