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2005 Jack Kilby, American Scientist
2003 Bob Stump, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 2003
2002 Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71
2000 Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor
1999 Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95
1997 Lawrence Payton, singer, The Four Tops, dies at 59
1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1995 Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1994 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1990 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1986 Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1984 Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1978 Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1978 Mark Robson, Canadian Director
1977 Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1972 Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1966 Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71
1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1965 Bernard Baruch, American Businessman
1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1963 Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott and Costello), dies at 52
1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs
1963 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1958 Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor
1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1948 George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1945 Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California
1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1922 Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1917 James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, dies at 78
1915 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1904 Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies
1890 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1888 Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1883 Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64
1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79
1870 Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43?
1846 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1842 Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1837 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 William IV, King of England, dies
1833 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1751 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies
1585 Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
840 Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
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