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2007 Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54
2003 Alan Bates, actor, King of Hearts, dies at 69
2001 Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator
1999 Dick Peabody, actor, Combat, dies at 74
1999 Leonard Goldenson, TV executive, dies at 94
1997 Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83
1997 Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87
1997 Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74
1997 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75
1995 Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39
1995 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54
1995 Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86
1994 Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70
1994 Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83
1994 Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64
1994 Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82
1993 Blandine Ebinger, Loeser, actress (Madchen in Uniform), dies at 94
1993 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50
1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75
1992 Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies
1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1991 Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43
1991 John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49
1991 W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
1988 Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid and Nancy), dies
1988 Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59
1987 Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
1987 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1986 Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
1986 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78
1985 Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
1983 Walter Scott, rocker, dies
1982 John Leonard Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
1981 Hoagy Carmichael, U.S. actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
1979 Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered
1978 Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62
1978 Chris Bell, rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash
1978 Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53
1974 Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66
1974 Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76
1972 Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75
1972 Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician
1959 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70
1957 Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66
1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
1950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
1944 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77
1944 Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician
1938 Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72
1938 O Mandelstam, writer, dies
1936 Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
1931 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73
1931 Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56
1930 William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63
1925 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44
1925 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet
1924 William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
1919 Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73
1919 Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68
1916 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70
1900 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90
1880 Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75
1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
1858 Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73
1853 William Jay, English Clergyman
1836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43
1805 Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
1800 Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian
1641 Francois van d'Aerssen, ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1631 John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47
1603 Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68
1595 Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63
1590 Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing, marquis of Renty, dies at 33
1065 Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castilie, dies
975 Balderik, bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies
418 Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
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