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2008 David Foster Wallace, dies in California, of suicide, at 46
2007 Ike Turner, dies in California, of a cocaine overdose, at 76
2000 George Montgomery, sculptor/actor, dies at 84
1999 Joseph Heller, writer, Catch-22, dies at 76
1998 Lord Lew Grade, producer, The Muppet Show, dies at 91
1998 Mo Udall, born in St. Johns, Arizona, Representative-D-Arizona 1961 - 1991, died of Parkinson disease
1996 Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70
1996 Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81
1996 Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91
1996 Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77
1996 Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82
1995 David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63
1995 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97
1995 James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76
1995 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies
1995 Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95
1995 Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50
1994 Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102
1994 Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83
1994 John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68
1994 Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at 46
1993 Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90
1993 Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58
1993 Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
1992 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
1991 Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
1991 Ken Keltner, U.S. baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
1991 Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
1988 John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56
1987 Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83
1985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
1985 Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road manager (Rolling Stones), dies at 47
1978 Clifton Chenier, U.S. accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53
1978 Fay Compton, actress (Othello), dies at 74
1977 Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92
1976 Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He and She), dies at 49
1971 David Sarnoff, U.S. TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
1971 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43
1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
1971 John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47
1970 Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82
1968 Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65
1965 Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
1962 Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
1961 Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91
1959 Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79
1957 Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35
1956 Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83
1947 Julio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at 70
1946 Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Abelard and Heloise), dies at 67
1939 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1937 Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57
1933 Theodore Moses Tobani, composer, dies at 78
1932 Egon Richter, writer, dies
1929 Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity
1927 Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
1926 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77
1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
1921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1920 Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1920 Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
1917 Andrew Taylor Still, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine, died at age 89
1912 Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1877 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
1872 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71
1836 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82
1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1772 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch Admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1204 Maimonides, Moses Ben Maimon, Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1112 Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
884 Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies











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