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1997 Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67
1996 Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61
1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
1995 Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
1995 Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88
1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1994 Lewis Grizzard, American Writer
1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
1992 Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82
1992 Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1991 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
1990 Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1990 Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete
1988 Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1987 Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1982 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at 52
1976 Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
1974 Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83
1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1972 Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71
1972 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50
1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam
1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
1964 Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84
1962 Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies
1962 C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
1953 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1951 Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74
1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60
1950 Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet
1944 Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
1942 Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41
1941 D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
1934 A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen, dies at 76
1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
1933 Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal
1929 Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77
1925 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1925 Lord Curzon, British Statesman
1920 Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
1913 Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75
1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies
1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75
1910 Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89
1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution
1898 Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies
1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
1892 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41
1891 Lawrence Barrett, American Actor
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1878 Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist
1875 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist
1874 Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63
1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52
1871 Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56
1870 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian
1866 Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23
1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1804 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87
1757 Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1751 Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies
1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
1646 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
1619 Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies
1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77
1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded
1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx, Cutter, Dutch anabaptist, beheaded
1501 Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45
1393 Johannes Nepomucenus, Jan Nepomucky, Czechoslovakian saint, killed
1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1191 Clement III, Paolo Scolari, Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
842 Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies











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