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2004 Tug McGraw, American Athlete
2003 Jean Kerr, writer, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, dies at 79
2003 Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82
2001 Nancy Parsons, actress, Porky's, dies at 58
1998 Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82
1998 Sonny Bono, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, singer, Sonny and Cher, dies skiing at 62
1997 Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72
1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
1996 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84
1996 Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88
1996 Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63
1995 Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78
1995 Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone
1994 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87
1994 Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1977 - 1987, Speaker of the House, dies of cancer at 81
1994 Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
1994 William Raynor, writer, dies at 73
1994 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician
1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85
1993 Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61
1993 Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60
1993 Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65
1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies
1993 Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84
1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered
1993 Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52
1993 Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965
1991 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
1991 Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
1990 Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
1990 Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40
1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60
1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian Athlete
1982 Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64
1982 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56
1981 Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
1981 Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67
1979 Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56
1977 Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74
1976 Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84
1975 Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning
1974 Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
1973 Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79
1971 Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36
1970 Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered
1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1970 Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73
1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83
1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY
1968 Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79
1965 Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73
1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81
1963 Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66
1960 Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53
1956 Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84
1952 Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for Ind), dies
1952 Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51
1945 Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65
1944 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
1943 George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
1940 Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46
1936 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66
1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
1922 Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47
1922 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer
1904 Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
1891 Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday
1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet
1862 Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81
1860 St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies
1858 Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91
1856 Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor, dies at 67
1848 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73
1827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63
1814 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72
1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79
1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41
1796 Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64
1788 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85
1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
1762 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52
1759 Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Netherlands cardinal, dies at 79
1746 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53
1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
1603 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73
1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies
1592 Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73
1477 Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43
1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
1387 Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67
1066 Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies











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