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2007 Lee Hazlewood, dies in Henderson, Nevada, of renal cancer, at 78
2005 Little Milton, American Musician
2001 Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64
2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist
1999 Victor Mature, actor, Samson and Delilah, dies at 86
1997 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122
1996 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
1994 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
1994 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1981 Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92
1976 Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher
1975 John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57
1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70
1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
1904 Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist
1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1875 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author
1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
1821 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 86
1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
1598 William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
1578 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle
1578 Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
1526 Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
1306 Vaclav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered
1265 Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1060 Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52











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