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January 10, 2004 Spalding Gray, actor/writer, Swimming to Cambodia, dies at 62 January 10, 2004 Gary Webb, American Journalist January 10, 2004 Alexandra Ripley, American Writer January 10, 2001 John G. Schmitz, American Politician January 10, 2000 Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90 January 10, 2000 Bruce Vento, American Politician January 10, 2000 Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier January 10, 1999 Franjo Tudjman, Croatian Statesman January 10, 1997 Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window January 10, 1997 Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96 January 10, 1997 George Young, footballer, dies at 74 January 10, 1997 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71 January 10, 1997 Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan Writer January 10, 1996 Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88 January 10, 1996 Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81 January 10, 1996 David Viscott, American Psychologist January 10, 1995 Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74 January 10, 1995 Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57 January 10, 1995 Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies January 10, 1994 Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 January 10, 1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72 January 10, 1994 Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73 January 10, 1993 Diana Adams, ballerina, dies January 10, 1993 Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death January 10, 1992 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 January 10, 1991 Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62 January 10, 1990 Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42 January 10, 1990 Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies January 10, 1986 Joseph Kraft, U.S. columnist, dies at 61 January 10, 1984 Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82 January 10, 1982 Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84 January 10, 1982 Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55 January 10, 1981 Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63 January 10, 1980 George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86 January 10, 1978 Don Gillis, U.S. composer (Symphony #5 ), dies at 65 January 10, 1978 John D Rockefeller III, U.S. billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 January 10, 1978 Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua January 10, 1978 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62 January 10, 1976 Chester Arthur Burnett, U.S. blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 January 10, 1976 Howlin' Wolf, singer and guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65 January 10, 1972 Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 January 10, 1972 Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68 January 10, 1972 Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82 January 10, 1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 January 10, 1970 Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 January 10, 1970 Charles Olson, American Poet January 10, 1968 Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 January 10, 1968 Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 January 10, 1968 Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85 January 10, 1968 Louis-Franeois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 January 10, 1968 Theophilus E Donges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69 January 10, 1967 Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 January 10, 1967 Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77 January 10, 1966 Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69 January 10, 1964 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 January 10, 1963 Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66 January 10, 1961 Dashiell Hammett, U.S. detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66 January 10, 1958 Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52 January 10, 1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 January 10, 1956 Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84 January 10, 1956 Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 January 10, 1955 Joseph McCabe, English Writer January 10, 1954 Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53 January 10, 1953 Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56 January 10, 1951 Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59 January 10, 1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 January 10, 1951 Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65 January 10, 1945 Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67 January 10, 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 January 10, 1943 J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83 January 10, 1941 Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61 January 10, 1941 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67 January 10, 1939 Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50 January 10, 1939 Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64 January 10, 1938 Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68 January 10, 1935 Charlie McGahey, cricket (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies January 10, 1935 Edwin H Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60 January 10, 1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 January 10, 1927 August(us) Alleb, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88 January 10, 1920 Hudson Stuck, English Explorer January 10, 1917 Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies January 10, 1908 Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65 January 10, 1899 Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 January 10, 1895 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45 January 10, 1892 Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91 January 10, 1889 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68 January 10, 1889 Edwin Hatch, English Theologian January 10, 1876 Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70 January 10, 1872 William H. Seward, American Statesman January 10, 1871 Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 January 10, 1865 Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman January 10, 1862 Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 January 10, 1855 Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 January 10, 1846 Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 January 10, 1833 Adrien Marie Legendre, dies January 10, 1833 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73 January 10, 1824 Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64 January 10, 1811 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46 January 10, 1800 Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46 January 10, 1792 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60 January 10, 1789 Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 January 10, 1780 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 January 10, 1778 Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70 January 10, 1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies January 10, 1768 Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82 January 10, 1754 Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51 January 10, 1691 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet January 10, 1674 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84 January 10, 1645 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 January 10, 1626 Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician January 10, 1549 Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman January 10, 1542 Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59 January 10, 1271 Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies January 10, 976 John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 January 10, 866 Lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies January 10, 681 Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies |