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2004 Johnny Oates, American Athlete
2001 Harvey Martin, American Athlete
1997 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69
1997 Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57
1997 James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67
1997 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77
1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77
1996 Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies
1996 Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47
1995 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76
1995 Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59
1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57
1994 John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47
1994 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65
1994 John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66
1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65
1994 Julie Haydon, Donella Donaldson, U.S. actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84
1994 Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74
1994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82
1994 Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78
1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
1993 Norman Vincent Peale, Reverend, 'Power of Positive Thinking', dies at 95
1993 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
1992 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies
1992 Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64
1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
1987 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68
1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75
1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53
1984 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85
1980 Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73
1980 Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer (1945), dies at 89
1979 Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/Secretary-General NATO, dies at 82
1979 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39
1977 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66
1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
1975 Bernard Herrmann, U.S. movie composer, dies at 64
1975 Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78
1974 Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70
1972 Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79
1966 Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69
1961 Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76
1959 William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat
1957 Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (sign on bay), dies at 60
1955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
1955 Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany
1952 Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58
1945 Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67
1944 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66
1942 Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80
1942 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists
1942 K Balmont, writer, dies at 75
1935 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50
1935 Alban Berg, Austrian Composer
1932 Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60
1930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
1930 Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56
1914 John Muir, American Environmentalist
1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80
1908 Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
1907 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies
1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55
1898 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41
1889 Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies
1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85
1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55
1869 Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer
1863 W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52
1863 William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist
1862 Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84
1823 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68
1707 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78
1660 Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29
1548 Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies
1541 Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61
1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55
1453 John Dunstable, English composer, dies
1380 John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies
1069 Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
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