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March 2, 2004 Mercedes McCambridge, actress, The Exorcist, dies at 85 March 2, 1999 Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 March 2, 1996 Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61 March 2, 1995 Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77 March 2, 1995 Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48 March 2, 1994 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80 March 2, 1994 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70 March 2, 1993 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 March 2, 1993 Paul D Zimmerman, U.S. screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54 March 2, 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies March 2, 1991 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies March 2, 1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87 March 2, 1991 Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62 March 2, 1988 John Clellon Holmes, American Writer March 2, 1987 Randolph Scott, actor (Ft. Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89 March 2, 1986 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56 March 2, 1986 Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered March 2, 1985 John B Kelly Jr, chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57 March 2, 1985 Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's March 2, 1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 March 2, 1982 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53 March 2, 1982 Philip K. Dick, American Writer March 2, 1981 Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30 March 2, 1979 Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71 March 2, 1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75 March 2, 1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland March 2, 1975 Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65 March 2, 1974 Barbara Ruick, actress and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41 March 2, 1973 Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated March 2, 1972 Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 March 2, 1971 Charles W. Engelhard, U.S. silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54 March 2, 1967 Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81 March 2, 1962 Charles-Jean baron de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at 96 March 2, 1959 Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70 March 2, 1959 Yrlo Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67 March 2, 1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70 March 2, 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 March 2, 1945 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist March 2, 1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79 March 2, 1939 Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 March 2, 1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73 March 2, 1930 David H Lawrence, poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 March 2, 1916 Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72 March 2, 1901 George Mercer Dawson, Canadian Scientist March 2, 1895 Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54 March 2, 1895 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64 March 2, 1895 John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer March 2, 1895 Berthe Morisot, French Artist March 2, 1887 August W. Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47 March 2, 1887 Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63 March 2, 1882 Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70 March 2, 1878 Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician March 2, 1868 Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81 March 2, 1867 French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50 March 2, 1862 Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40 March 2, 1855 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 March 2, 1840 Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets and asteroids), dies at 81 March 2, 1822 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40 March 2, 1800 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86 March 2, 1797 Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 March 2, 1787 Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 March 2, 1772 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73 March 2, 1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78 March 2, 1619 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44 March 2, 1383 Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies March 2, 1333 Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies March 2, 1127 Charles, the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered March 2, 1122 Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies March 2, 986 Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44 |