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2002 Caroline Knapp, writer, Drinking: A Love Story, dies at 41
2002 Lew Wasserman, American Producer
2001 Anthony Quinn, actor, Zorba the Greek, dies at 86
2000 William Simon, American Public Servant
2000 William E. Simon, American Public Servant
2000 Merton Miller, American Economist
2000 Leonard Baskin, American Artist
1997 Dennis James, game show host, The Price is Right, dies at 79
1996 Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific
1996 Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79
1996 Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82
1996 Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81
1995 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
1995 Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
1995 Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92
1995 Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52
1994 Hub Matthijsen, violinist and bandmaster, dies at 52
1994 Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies
1994 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
1993 Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53
1992 Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83
1992 Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84
1992 William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
1991 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62
1991 Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92
1991 Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mount Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
1990 Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77
1989 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89
1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader
1988 Raj Kapoor, Indian Actor
1987 Andres Segovia, guitarist, dies
1987 Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1986 Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81
1986 Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
1986 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
1983 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60
1981 Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at 76
1979 Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65
1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71
1975 Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 69
1970 Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Harm Harmstra, Fries boer/writer, dies at 70
1970 H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies
1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
1967 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967 Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67
1967 Hans Fischbock, Austrian financier, dies
1967 Arthur Ransome, Writer
1966 Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
1963 John XXIII, Angelo G Roncalli, Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
1963 Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1963 Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope
1963 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet
1959 Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73
1949 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1948 Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi, Japan (stage)writer (Tjitj kaeru), dies at 59
1946 Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
1943 Folkert E Posthuma, Minister of Agriculture, dies
1933 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1924 Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1913 Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79
1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1899 Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
1898 Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
1898 Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74
1890 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
1888 Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
1881 Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1877 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, princess of Wurttemberg, dies at 58
1875 Georges [Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold] Bizet, French composer, dies at 36
1875 Georges Bizet, French Composer
1872 Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
1864 James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle
1864 Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle
1861 Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1861 Stephen Douglas, American Politician
1858 Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24
1849 Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
1844 Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame, dies
1809 John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1804 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician
1764 Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
1732 Pieter Vuyst, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon, executed
1688 Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66
1679 Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1661 Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1594 Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1107 Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle
545 Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70
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