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2008 Bernie Mac, dies in Chicago, of complications of pneumonia, at 50
2004 David Raksin, composer, Laura, dies at 92
2003 Gregory Hines, dancer/actor, White Nights, dies at 57
2000 John Harsanyi, American Educator
1996 James Whitman McLamore, businessman, dies at 70
1996 Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65
1996 Frank Whittle, English Inventor
1995 Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53
1995 John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29
1995 Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78
1994 Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93
1994 Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64
1994 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77
1992 Christopher Todd, Todd Wangberg, dies of AIDS at 30
1992 Jan van Baal, antropologist and Governor of Dutch New-Guinea, dies
1992 Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
1992 Thomas J McIntyre, Sen-New Hampshire, 1963 - 1979, dies at 77
1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
1990 Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies
1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85
1987 Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55
1986 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77
1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies
1980 Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
1980 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
1979 Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75
1978 James G Cozzens, U.S. writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74
1978 Johan Daisne, Thiery, Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66
1977 Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75
1977 George Kenney, American Soldier
1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65
1976 Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72
1975 Dimitri D Shostakovich, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68
1975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46
1975 Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer
1973 Charlie Daniels, U.S. swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88
1972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53
1972 Richard Ellsasser, composer, dies at 45
1969 Abigail Folger, U.S., coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
1969 George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72
1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies
1969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26
1969 Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered
1967 Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66
1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies
1967 Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34
1966 Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75
1965 Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83
1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1962 Herman Hesse, German Author
1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75
1959 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55
1958 Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74
1955 Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57
1949 Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy and Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83
1949 Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist
1944 Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62
1942 Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies
1936 Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist
1929 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
1928 Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
1924 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1919 Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62
1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer
1915 Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
1904 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
1892 Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies
1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
1888 Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82
1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46
1854 Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies
1835 Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78
1806 Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33
1763 John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
1727 Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52
1710 Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77
1672 Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70
1668 Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64
1652 John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37
1634 Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
1613 Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36
1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
1516 Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66
1420 Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies
1048 Damasius II, Poppo, Pope (1047-48), dies
803 Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies
378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117)











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