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February 12, 2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, R and B singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 February 12, 2000 Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist, Peanuts, dies at 77 February 12, 2000 "William ""Oliver"" Swofford", singer, ", Good Morning, Starshine, ", dies at 54 February 12, 2000 Tom Landry, American Coach February 12, 1997 Nora Beloff, journalist, dies at 78 February 12, 1997 Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77 February 12, 1996 Roger Omond, journalist, dies at 51 February 12, 1995 Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66 February 12, 1995 L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies February 12, 1995 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49 February 12, 1995 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82 February 12, 1995 Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54 February 12, 1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright February 12, 1994 Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 February 12, 1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys February 12, 1992 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ 1928 Olympics gold, dies February 12, 1992 Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies February 12, 1992 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74 February 12, 1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 February 12, 1991 Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies February 12, 1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 February 12, 1989 Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at 58 February 12, 1987 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55 February 12, 1986 Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86 February 12, 1986 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82 February 12, 1985 Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61 February 12, 1984 Anna Anderson Manahan, [Grand Duchess Anastasia], dies in Virginia February 12, 1984 Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69 February 12, 1983 Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100 February 12, 1982 Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87 February 12, 1982 Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies February 12, 1982 Victor Jory, actor (Adv of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), dies at 79 February 12, 1981 Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies February 12, 1980 Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies February 12, 1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director (Human Beast), dies at 84 February 12, 1976 James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52 February 12, 1976 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37 February 12, 1973 Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67 February 12, 1971 George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86 February 12, 1971 James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95 February 12, 1970 Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79 February 12, 1969 Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch and Perlemoer), dies at 80 February 12, 1965 Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53 February 12, 1960 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 February 12, 1959 George Antheil, U.S. pianist/composer (Ballet Mecanique), dies at 58 February 12, 1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 February 12, 1957 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 February 12, 1955 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 February 12, 1954 Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 February 12, 1947 Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 February 12, 1945 ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed February 12, 1945 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies February 12, 1945 Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39 February 12, 1942 Grant Wood, U.S. painter (American Gothic), dies at 49 February 12, 1933 Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85 February 12, 1929 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Ger para-psychologist, dies at 66 February 12, 1920 Emile Sauret, composer, dies at 67 February 12, 1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77 February 12, 1920 Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife, dies at 31 February 12, 1916 J. 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Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies February 12, 1915 Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77 February 12, 1915 Fanny Crosby, American Musician February 12, 1905 Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies February 12, 1901 Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 February 12, 1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 February 12, 1896 Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35 February 12, 1886 P J Edvard Backstrom, Swedish writer, dies at 44 February 12, 1886 Horatio Seymour, American Politician February 12, 1878 Alexander Duff, Scottish Clergyman February 12, 1861 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72 February 12, 1837 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 February 12, 1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65 February 12, 1820 Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 February 12, 1812 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist February 12, 1804 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 February 12, 1799 Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer, dies at 67 February 12, 1787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 February 12, 1771 Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60 February 12, 1762 Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68 February 12, 1738 James Sherard, composer, dies at 71 February 12, 1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 February 12, 1684 Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67 February 12, 1616 John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 February 12, 1590 Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 February 12, 1554 Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17 February 12, 1554 Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded February 12, 1538 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 February 12, 1242 Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide February 12, 1128 Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies |