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January 6, 2004 Francesco Scavullo, photographer, dies at 82 January 6, 2000 Don Martin, Mad cartoonist, dies at 68 January 6, 2000 William P. Bundy, American Historian January 6, 1999 Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist, Both Worlds, dies at 36 January 6, 1997 Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52 January 6, 1997 Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87 January 6, 1997 Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39 January 6, 1996 Duane Hanson, sculptor, dies at 60 January 6, 1996 Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94 January 6, 1996 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68 January 6, 1996 Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80 January 6, 1995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 January 6, 1995 James Clay, saxophonist, dies at 59 January 6, 1995 Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68 January 6, 1995 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 January 6, 1994 "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80 January 6, 1994 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies January 6, 1994 Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6 January 6, 1994 Tip O'Neill, speaker of the house, dies of cancer January 6, 1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70 January 6, 1993 Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70 January 6, 1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75 January 6, 1993 Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54 January 6, 1992 Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44 January 6, 1992 Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies January 6, 1992 Vincent Placoly, Martinique writer (Une journee torride), dies at 45 January 6, 1991 Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64 January 6, 1990 Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies January 6, 1990 Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40 January 6, 1989 Hirohito, Japan's emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign January 6, 1989 Edmund Leach, British Scientist January 6, 1988 Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46 January 6, 1986 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90 January 6, 1985 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 January 6, 1984 George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist January 6, 1981 A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84 January 6, 1978 John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80 January 6, 1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist January 6, 1976 Oscar Espla, Spanish philosopher/composer (Sonata del Sur), dies at 89 January 6, 1975 Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77 January 6, 1974 David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77 January 6, 1974 Luther H. Hodges, American Politician January 6, 1968 Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 January 6, 1967 Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried January 6, 1967 Johnny Keane, baseball player/mgr (Cards, New York Yanks), dies at 55 January 6, 1965 John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52 January 6, 1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 January 6, 1963 Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68 January 6, 1962 Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 January 6, 1961 Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76 January 6, 1960 Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 January 6, 1960 Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope and Means), dies at 68 January 6, 1959 Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54 January 6, 1958 Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85 January 6, 1956 Charles E. Merrill, American Businessman January 6, 1950 Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71 January 6, 1941 Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60 January 6, 1936 Charles A Stoneham, President (New York Giants), dies January 6, 1935 George P Baker, U.S. playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68 January 6, 1932 Julius Rosenwald, American Businessman January 6, 1929 Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72 January 6, 1928 Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51 January 6, 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-09), dies in New York at 60 January 6, 1919 Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity January 6, 1918 Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 January 6, 1917 Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82 January 6, 1885 Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72 January 6, 1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 January 6, 1884 Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Ital/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75 January 6, 1882 Louis Blanc, French Politician January 6, 1853 Simon Greenleaf, American Judge January 6, 1831 Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 January 6, 1800 William Jones, composer, dies at 73 January 6, 1799 Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 January 6, 1799 W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25 January 6, 1796 Catherine the Great, Russian Royalty January 6, 1790 Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73 January 6, 1785 Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution January 6, 1742 Johann Georg Reinhardt, composer, dies January 6, 1738 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74 January 6, 1725 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jap playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71 January 6, 1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies January 6, 1697 Carlo Mannelli, composer, dies at 56 January 6, 1694 Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies January 6, 1693 Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51 January 6, 1685 Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, dies at 68 January 6, 1646 Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72 January 6, 1592 Johan Casimir, palsgrave at the Rhine, dies January 6, 1541 Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52 January 6, 1536 Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies January 6, 1448 Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies January 6, 1425 Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies January 6, 1374 Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies January 6, 1275 Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies January 6, 1088 Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies |