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1996 Jay D. Miller, record producer, dies at 73
1996 Peter Baer, artost/printmaker, dies at 72
1995 Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer and songwriter, dies at 61
1995 Davie Cooper, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991, dies at 39
1995 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
1995 Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74
1994 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1994 Giulietta Masina, wife of Federico Felini/(La Strada), dies at 74
1994 Jim Moloney, dies of Parkinson's disease
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44
1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1992 Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian Economist
1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies at 65
1991 Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
1987 Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1985 Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85
1985 Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), dies at 60
1985 Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52
1983 Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
1982 Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1981 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier
1979 Philip Bourneuf, actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
1973 Ken Maynard, actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77
1971 Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67
1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
1968 Edwin O'Connor, U.S. writer, dies at 49
1967 Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1966 Johannes W. Elsensohn, Dutch actor and writer (Arie), dies at 82
1965 Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59
1964 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1963 Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Netherlands, dies at 80
1962 Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California
1961 James Edward Murray, Senator-D-Montana 1934 - 1961, dies
1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1953 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1950 Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1946 Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
1946 Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist
1946 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician
1944 O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
1943 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer, 'Le Petit Roi', dies at 72
1943 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
1937 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1919 Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1918 Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27
1914 Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1902 Kalman Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71
1881 Nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45
1880 Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67
1869 Charles Lucas, composer, dies at 60
1862 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
1842 Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1832 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer, dies at 41
1821 Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
1819 August vs. Kotzebue, writer, dies
1818 Nicolas Isouard, composer, dies at 42
1816 Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, dies at 95
1809 Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer, dies at 60
1809 Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist
1806 George Frederic Pinto, composer, dies at 20
1801 Paul I, tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46
1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1783 Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67
1756 Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer, dies at 57
1748 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1676 Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63
1669 Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54
1658 Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79
1653 Johan van Galen, Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1606 Justus Lipsius, Joost Lips, Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1555 Julius III, Giovanni M del Monte, Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1369 Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile and Leon, murdered
1237 Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1169 Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies
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