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2002 Avery Schreiber, comic, Burns and Schreiber, dies at 66
2002 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish Writer
1997 Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89
1997 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84
1996 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90
1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65
1996 Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88
1996 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist, dies at 93
1995 Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77
1995 Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
1995 Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
1995 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle
1995 William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71
1995 Murray Rothbard, American Economist
1994 Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67
1994 Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
1994 Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85
1994 Lynn Blessing, vibes Player, dies at 65
1994 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies
1994 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor (Cafe Express), dies of heart failure 52
1993 Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57
1992 Jhean Burton, entertainer, dies
1992 Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1991 Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
1990 Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician
1988 Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1987 Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1986 Juan Rulfo, writer, dies
1986 M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79
1985 Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1982 Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1981 Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69
1980 Carl White, rocker, dies
1980 Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
1979 Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70
1972 John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1971 Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60
1971 Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1967 Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86
1967 Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW and Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
1964 Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
1960 Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80
1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1957 Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1951 Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1948 Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies
1944 J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1942 Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, President of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
1932 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1930 Rudolf Hapke, historian (Entstehung Holland Wirtschaft), dies at 45
1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1922 Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
1921 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1907 Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1892 Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1891 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
1890 Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1890 Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82
1887 Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
1870 Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1868 William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51
1858 Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1843 Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45
1833 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55
1830 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal's ex, dies at 53
1810 Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37
1790 Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69
1758 Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1755 Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49
1736 Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41
1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60
1695 Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32
1678 Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59
1655 Innocentius X, Giambattista Pamfili, pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1598 Theodorus I, Fedor Ivanovitch, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1591 Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1590 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1566 Ludovicus Blosius, Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", wrtier, dies
1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1529 Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1451 Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1325 Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1285 Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1130 Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
312 Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies
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