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2007 Matt Nagle, dies in Massachusetts, of a blood infection, at 27
2004 Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach
2000 Thea Porter, '60s Soho designer, dies at 72
1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91
1996 "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Howard Vernon, actor 'Faceless', 'Delicatessen', dies at 82
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1994 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics, dies at 26
1993 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
1992 Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist
1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1989 Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1980 Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1979 Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1976 Paul Morand, French Diplomat
1974 Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1973 Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in New York City
1972 Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1971 Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1967 Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1966 Tony Lema, U.S. golfer, dies at 32
1965 Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1962 Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1960 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1950 Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed
1947 Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1936 James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1933 Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1868 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1865 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79
1846 Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1831 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1826 Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1819 Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1812 Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1809 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1758 John Dyer, poet, dies
1756 George Vertue, engraver, dies
1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1704 Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle
1652 Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
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