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December 24 Deaths in History - December 24 Birthdays - December 24 Events
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December 24, 1997 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69 December 24, 1997 Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57 December 24, 1997 James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67 December 24, 1997 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77 December 24, 1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77 December 24, 1996 Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies December 24, 1996 Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47 December 24, 1995 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76 December 24, 1995 Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59 December 24, 1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57 December 24, 1994 John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47 December 24, 1994 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65 December 24, 1994 John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 December 24, 1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 December 24, 1994 Julie Haydon, [Donella Donaldson], U.S. actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84 December 24, 1994 Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74 December 24, 1994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82 December 24, 1994 Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78 December 24, 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 December 24, 1993 Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95 December 24, 1993 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies December 24, 1992 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies December 24, 1992 Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64 December 24, 1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 December 24, 1987 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 December 24, 1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75 December 24, 1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53 December 24, 1984 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 December 24, 1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 December 24, 1980 Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73 December 24, 1980 Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer (1945), dies at 89 December 24, 1979 Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/Secretary-General NATO, dies at 82 December 24, 1979 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39 December 24, 1977 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66 December 24, 1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79 December 24, 1975 Bernard Herrmann, U.S. movie composer, dies at 64 December 24, 1975 Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78 December 24, 1974 Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70 December 24, 1972 Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79 December 24, 1972 Ernst Kreuder, writer, dies at 69 December 24, 1966 Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69 December 24, 1961 Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76 December 24, 1957 Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (sign on bay), dies at 60 December 24, 1955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67 December 24, 1954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 of Russian Roulette December 24, 1952 Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 December 24, 1945 Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67 December 24, 1944 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66 December 24, 1942 Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80 December 24, 1942 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists December 24, 1942 K Balmont, writer, dies at 75 December 24, 1935 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 December 24, 1935 Alban Berg, Austrian Composer December 24, 1932 Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60 December 24, 1930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 December 24, 1930 Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56 December 24, 1914 John Muir, American Environmentalist December 24, 1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 December 24, 1908 Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80 December 24, 1907 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies December 24, 1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55 December 24, 1898 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 December 24, 1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 December 24, 1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55 December 24, 1863 W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52 December 24, 1863 William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist December 24, 1862 Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84 December 24, 1823 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68 December 24, 1707 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 December 24, 1660 Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29 December 24, 1548 Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies December 24, 1541 Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61 December 24, 1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55 December 24, 1453 John Dunstable, English composer, dies December 24, 1380 John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies December 24, 1069 Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies |