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2003 Bob Hope, comedian, road movies, dies at 100
2002 Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86
1997 K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99
1996 Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65
1996 Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London), dies at 71
1995 Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 66
1995 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72
1995 Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1995 Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies
1994 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
1994 Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48
1993 Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
1992 Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56
1991 Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
1990 Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
1990 Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies
1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
1990 Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1987 Travis Jackson, baseball player (New York Giants), dies at 83
1986 Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1985 Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
1985 Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete
1984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1982 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1982 Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, dies at 28
1981 Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies
1981 Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64
1981 William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies
1981 Paul Brunton, British Philosopher
1980 Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1980 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty
1979 Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
1979 Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72
1978 [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor and composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
1976 Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1974 Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61
1972 Allen J. Ellender, American Politician
1971 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
1968 Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1968 Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61
1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1962 Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
1961 Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59
1960 Vasa Prihoda, Czechoslovakian violinist, dies at 59
1952 W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1948 Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91
1946 Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1944 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68
1942 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
1934 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies
1924 Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66
1916 Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1901 Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian
1883 Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
1883 Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1881 Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84
1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies
1844 John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies
1841 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet
1834 Charles Lamb, English Critic
1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1822 Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1777 William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
1759 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60
1720 Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69
1689 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies
1638 Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1233 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1227 Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies
1214 Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle
1214 Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle
1128 Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1101 Koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies
916 Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies
432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies
82 St. Joseph of Arimathea, dies
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