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2003 David Hemmings, actor/durectir, Blow Up, dies at 62
2002 "William ""Tex"" Henson", animator, Rocky and Bullwinkle, dies at 78
2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83
1997 David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
1997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1996 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1995 Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16
1995 Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated
1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1994 Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1993 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 Frank V Zappa, U.S. music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90
1993 Frank Zappa, American Musician
1990 Edward Binns, U.S. actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1987 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90
1986 Reuben Nakian, U.S. sculptor, dies at 89
1985 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1984 John Rock, U.S. co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1983 Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1980 Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash
1980 Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter 1932 Olympics gold, shot at 69
1979 Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1978 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Netherlands/U.S. phycists, dies at 76
1977 Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1975 Hannah Arendt, German Historian
1974 Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
1973 Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies
1969 Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85
1969 Fred Hampton, U.S. Black-Panther leader, murdered
1967 Bert Lahr, Irving Lahrheim, U.S. comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1963 Robert Hamer, British Director
1959 Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1954 Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1953 Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1952 Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1948 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1943 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1938 Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1935 Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71
1933 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1932 Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61
1923 Maurice Barres, French Politician
1915 Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1890 Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1884 Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
1836 Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
1807 Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1798 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1732 John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1679 Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher
1676 Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
1649 Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1642 Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lueon, dies at about 57
1642 Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman
1603 Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1576 Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide
1371 Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1334 John XXII, Jacques Dueze, Pope (316-34), dies
1182 Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1137 Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies
811 Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39
771 Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20
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