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2004 Renata Tebaldi, opera singer, dies at 82
2003 Hope Lange, actress, movie version of Peyton Place, dies at 70
2000 Robert Buck, rock guitarist/songwriter, ", 10,000 Maniacs, ", dies at 42
2000 John Lindsay, American Politician
1999 Desmond Llewelyn, actor, Q in many James Bond movies, dies at 85
1997 David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
1997 Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89
1996 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
1996 Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78
1996 Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82
1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79
1995 Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85
1994 Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39
1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
1993 Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77
1993 Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49
1991 Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81
1991 Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
1990 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1990 Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher
1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87
1986 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author
1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
1982 Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95
1979 Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian
1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101
1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1967 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78
1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82
1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1957 John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56
1953 Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1953 Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
1951 Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
1945 John Amery, British Politician
1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1939 Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70
1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57
1925 Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44
1915 Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
1914 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87
1911 John Bigelow, American Lawyer
1867 Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57
1851 J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76
1851 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist
1848 Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77
1848 Emily Bronte, English Novelist
1823 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67
1815 Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65
1815 Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83
1810 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68
1804 Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies
1800 Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66
1798 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62
1749 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76
1741 Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies
1614 Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67
1370 Urban V, Guillaume de Grimoard, 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
401 Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
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