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2008 Bobby Fischer, dies in Iceland, at 64
2007 Art Buchwald, dies at 74, posts his video obituary in which he declared, "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died."
2005 Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman
2004 Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72
2004 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist
2003 Richard Crenna, actor, Rambo, dies at 75
2001 Gregory Corso, American Poet
1998 Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82
1997 Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
1997 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90
1996 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83
1996 Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85
1996 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1996 Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
1996 Barbara Jordan, Representative-D-Texas, 1972 - 1978
1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1994 Allan G. Odell, Advertising executive (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1994 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies
1994 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1994 Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
1993 Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
1992 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
1992 Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1992 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
1991 Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
1989 Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1983 Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
1981 Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1980 Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr and Mrs. North), dies at 59
1978 Don Ellis, American Musician
1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967
1976 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
1973 Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
1972 Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55
1970 Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
1969 Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
1967 Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
1967 Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician
1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
1964 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
1964 T. H. White, Indian Writer
1964 Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher
1964 Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist
1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56
1961 Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
1959 Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1955 J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
1955 Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Netherlands), dies at 68
1946 Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
1938 William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1933 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist
1918 Julius Wellhausen, German Educator
1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
1913 Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
1911 Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1908 Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1901 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
1893 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
1892 Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
1891 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
1891 George Bancroft, American Historian
1890 Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
1874 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
1869 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
1863 E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
1856 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
1856 John Eaton, American Politician
1847 Marie Louise, French Royalty
1833 James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
1833 William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
1830 W Waiblinger, writer, dies
1826 Juan Crisostomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19
1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1820 Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
1788 Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
1781 Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
1738 Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies
1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1654 Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
1625 Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
1620 Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
1617 Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
1604 Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1273 Rumi, Afghani Poet
1229 Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68
1119 Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies
1103 Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
395 Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
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