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February 22, 2002 Chuck Jones, animator, Wyle E. Coyote and the Road Runner, dies at 90 February 22, 1998 Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies February 22, 1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28 February 22, 1997 Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85 February 22, 1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 February 22, 1996 Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80 February 22, 1996 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79 February 22, 1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60 February 22, 1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80 February 22, 1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies February 22, 1994 "Papa" John Creach, U.S. jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76 February 22, 1993 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72 February 22, 1993 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63 February 22, 1992 Richard Sheldon, dies at 59 February 22, 1990 Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies February 22, 1989 Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies February 22, 1987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58 February 22, 1987 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66 February 22, 1987 Glenway Wescott, U.S. writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85 February 22, 1985 Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71 February 22, 1985 Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95 February 22, 1984 David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 February 22, 1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75 February 22, 1983 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70 February 22, 1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman, New York City DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60 February 22, 1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66 February 22, 1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 February 22, 1980 Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46 February 22, 1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74 February 22, 1978 Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 February 22, 1977 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly and Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64 February 22, 1976 Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71 February 22, 1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32 February 22, 1976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 February 22, 1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 February 22, 1973 Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72 February 22, 1973 Winthrop Rockefeller, U.S. governor (Arkansas), dies at 60 February 22, 1972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65 February 22, 1971 Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81 February 22, 1971 Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77 February 22, 1971 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82 February 22, 1968 Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 February 22, 1967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 February 22, 1967 Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70 February 22, 1966 Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74 February 22, 1965 Felix Frankfurter, American Judge February 22, 1964 Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84 February 22, 1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75 February 22, 1960 Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86 February 22, 1959 Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36 February 22, 1958 Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash February 22, 1957 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr. Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72 February 22, 1956 Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], Fr writer (Petit ami), dies at 84 February 22, 1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies February 22, 1943 Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies February 22, 1943 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 February 22, 1943 Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded February 22, 1939 Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet February 22, 1936 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74 February 22, 1934 Willem Kes, violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 78 February 22, 1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66 February 22, 1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72 February 22, 1925 Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies February 22, 1925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88 February 22, 1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55 February 22, 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39 February 22, 1913 Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup February 22, 1912 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76 February 22, 1903 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies February 22, 1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42 February 22, 1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton February 22, 1878 Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84 February 22, 1875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 February 22, 1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28 February 22, 1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77 February 22, 1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 February 22, 1838 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70 February 22, 1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65 February 22, 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany February 22, 1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53 February 22, 1824 John Davy, composer, dies at 60 February 22, 1822 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66 February 22, 1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92 February 22, 1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63 February 22, 1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution February 22, 1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71 February 22, 1732 Francis Atterbury, English Politician February 22, 1731 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92 February 22, 1727 Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 February 22, 1690 Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70 February 22, 1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer February 22, 1674 John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 February 22, 1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60 February 22, 1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies February 22, 1371 David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46 February 22, 1213 Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies February 22, 1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies February 22, 1078 John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies February 22, 1071 Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle February 22, 606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies |