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2008 Tom Lantos, dies in Bethesda, Maryland, of complications of esophageal cancer, at 80
2003 Thomas Leonard, American Businessman
2000 Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72
1997 Don Porter, actor, Gidget, dies at 84
1996 Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65
1996 Bob Shaw, science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64
1996 Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies
1996 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
1996 Phil Regan, actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88
1994 Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
1994 Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64
1994 William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
1993 George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure
1993 Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident
1992 Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60
1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90
1989 George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71
1986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
1986 Frank Herbert, American Writer
1985 Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
1985 Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86
1985 Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68
1982 Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer
1982 Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
1982 Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79
1978 James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84
1978 James Bryant Conant, American Scientist
1977 Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
1976 Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies
1976 Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89
1976 Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
1976 Lee J. Cobb, American Actor
1974 Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85
1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1972 Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
1971 Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1970 Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87
1969 James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48
1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
1967 A. J. Muste, American Activist
1963 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
1961 Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34
1948 Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50
1945 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53
1945 J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
1944 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies
1941 Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
1940 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), dies
1939 Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64
1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1931 Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies
1922 Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
1911 Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66
1907 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80
1907 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist
1903 Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67
1901 Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56
1899 George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies
1894 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
1892 Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63
1882 Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65
1879 Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
1879 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
1870 Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76
1870 Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
1868 Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
1841 J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55
1806 Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51
1797 Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83
1762 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
1685 David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1622 Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64
1554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule
1543 Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle
1503 Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1141 Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies
867 Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies
824 Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
821 Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies
731 Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies
641 Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
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