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2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89
2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95
2001 Christopher Hewett, actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere, dies at 80
1996 Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87
1995 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79
1995 Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77
1995 Jose B. M. Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1994 Christy Henrich, U.S. turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
1994 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
1994 John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74
1994 John van Raay, John Oradi, radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina
1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies
1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1986 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered
1979 Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1977 Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83
1977 Makarios III, Michail Mouskos, archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63
1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1974 Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85
1973 Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
1957 "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1954 Colette, writer, best-known for novel 'Gigi', which became a stage musical, dies at 81 in Paris, France
1951 Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies
1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cincinnati Reds), commits suicide
1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1938 Bartholomeus "Bart" de Ligt, Dutch anti-militaristic vicar, dies at 55
1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian 1928 Olympics gold
1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69
1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1902 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
1894 George Inness, U.S. landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
1886 Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
1884 Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacre-Coeur, Paris), dies at 71
1877 Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
1857 Eugene Sue, French Novelist
1835 Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67
1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1825 Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72
1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
1811 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1805 Christopher Anstey, English Poet
1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies
1800 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America, dies at 80
1797 Lord Amherst, British Soldier
1784 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
1716 Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56
1667 Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect
1531 Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37
1530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
808 P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
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