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2009 Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47
2007 Sidney Sheldon, dies in California, of complications from pneumonia, at 89
2006 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright
2001 O. Winston Link, American Photographer
1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73
1996 Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72
1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
1995 George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88
1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
1994 Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies
1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64
1994 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
1993 Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1991 John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
1988 Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85
1987 Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies
1986 Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74
1985 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67
1983 Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia
1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
1982 Felix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76
1982 Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69
1982 Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73
1982 Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
1980 Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82
1980 Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61
1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80
1976 Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80
1975 Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72
1973 Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54
1972 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81
1970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82
1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1967 Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies
1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
1963 Francois Poulenc, French composer (Litanies Vierge noire), dies at 74
1958 Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70
1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
1956 Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr. Bobbin), dies at 56
1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68
1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1948 Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies
1948 Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India
1948 Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1948 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader
1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
1945 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
1945 William Busch, composer, dies at 43
1942 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
1928 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66
1927 Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
1925 Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66
1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79
1900 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71
1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
1888 Asa Gray, U.S. botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
1881 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet
1860 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
1838 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
1836 Betsy Ross, American Celebrity
1827 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
1816 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
1797 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
1774 Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
1774 Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
1730 Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
1644 William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1584 Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle
1584 Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1393 Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball
1393 Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
1384 Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel, dies
1156 Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
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