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1995 Frank Perry, U.S. dir (Diary of Mad Housewife, David and Lisa), dies at 65
1995 Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89
1995 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
1994 Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist, dies at 90
1994 Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator, dies at 74
1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
1994 Michael Peters, dies of complications due to AIDS at 46
1994 Phillip Gilmore, actress (Malcolm X), dies at 38
1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
1993 Dorian Corey, actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDs at 56
1993 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
1992 Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
1992 Teddy Turner, comedian, dies at 75
1991 Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies
1991 Daniel Ocko, dies of respiratory condition at 78
1991 Dixie Dunbar, Charlotte King, dies of heart attack at 72
1991 Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent, dies at 92
1991 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
1990 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
1990 Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher
1987 Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
1985 Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87
1985 Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
1985 Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
1984 Mohammed Naguib, Egyptian Statesman
1983 Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
1983 William Goyen, writer, storyteller, married actress Doris Roberts, dies at 68
1982 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday
1982 Lehman Engel, U.S. composer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
1982 Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
1981 Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling New York at 89
1979 Mary Marquet, actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84
1977 Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54
1976 Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs at 18
1976 Jimmy Reed, rocker, dies of epileptic seizure at 50
1975 Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92
1975 Leland T Weed
1973 Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38
1973 Stringer Davis, actress (Mouse on the Moon, Miranda), dies at about 77
1972 Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Germany night club performer/singer, dies
1972 Rene Leibowitz, composer, dies at 59
1970 Mary Clare, dies at 76
1970 Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80
1968 Victor Sutherland, dies at 79
1960 Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46
1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated
1960 Vicki Baum, writer, dies
1959 Charles Lotsy, Dutch insurance director/chief d'equipe, dies at 66
1957 Jozef Cantre, Flemish sculptor/wood carver, dies at 66
1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
1946 Milan Harasta, composer, dies at 26
1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
1941 Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36
1941 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35
1940 Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77
1935 Astrid S L T Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden, dies
1935 Charles Lee Williams, composer, dies at 82
1933 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer, dies at 70
1928 Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72
1921 Joel Asaph Allen, U.S. zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83
1918 Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51
1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1910 Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies
1910 Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer, dies at 64
1910 John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
1909 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies
1904 Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52
1877 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
1876 Felicien C David, French composer (Lalla-Roukh), dies at 66
1868 Christian Schonbein, German chemist, dies at about 69
1865 John Brough, U.S. publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54
1861 Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63
1821 Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86
1799 Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
1782 Richard Kempenfeldt, English admiral, drowns
1769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1758 Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
1758 Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-Field Marshal, dies at 56
1738 Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81
1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1533 Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1526 Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20
1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35
886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
29 John the Baptist, beheaded
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