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March 26, 2004 Jan Berry, singer, Jan and Dean, dies at 62 March 26, 2004 Jan Sterling, actress, The High and the Mighty, dies at 82 March 26, 2003 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American Politician March 26, 2003 Daniel P. Moynihan, American Politician March 26, 2002 Randy Castillo, American Musician March 26, 2000 Alex Comfort, writer, The New Joy of Sex, dies at 80 March 26, 1996 David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83 March 26, 1996 Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81 March 26, 1996 Thomas Wakefield, writer, dies at 60 March 26, 1996 Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician March 26, 1995 Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31 March 26, 1994 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41 March 26, 1994 Jan Bor, Dutch violinist and painter, dies at 83 March 26, 1993 Luis Falco, U.S. choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 March 26, 1993 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84 March 26, 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 March 26, 1990 International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38 March 26, 1990 Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 March 26, 1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88 March 26, 1986 Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy and Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 March 26, 1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 March 26, 1982 Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91 March 26, 1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77 March 26, 1980 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32 March 26, 1979 Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 March 26, 1976 Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75 March 26, 1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author March 26, 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68 March 26, 1973 George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80 March 26, 1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 March 26, 1973 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67 March 26, 1969 B[runo] Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87 March 26, 1969 Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66 March 26, 1967 Max Ophuls, [Oppenheimer], German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies March 26, 1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 March 26, 1960 Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61 March 26, 1959 Raymond T Chandler, U.S. detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71 March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler, American Writer March 26, 1957 Max Ophuls, [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director, dies March 26, 1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70 March 26, 1953 Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64 March 26, 1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 March 26, 1945 David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 March 26, 1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 March 26, 1944 Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 March 26, 1943 Ben Lindsey, American Judge March 26, 1934 Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51 March 26, 1932 Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25 March 26, 1931 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician March 26, 1926 Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies March 26, 1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74 March 26, 1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78 March 26, 1923 Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 March 26, 1918 Cesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83 March 26, 1914 Jacob August Riis, Danish Journalist March 26, 1909 Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56 March 26, 1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48 March 26, 1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 March 26, 1896 Nanny vs. Hof, writer, dies March 26, 1892 Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78 March 26, 1892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at 72 March 26, 1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62 March 26, 1871 Francois-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87 March 26, 1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies March 26, 1837 Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 March 26, 1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 March 26, 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 March 26, 1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71 March 26, 1816 Daniel Waters, American Soldier March 26, 1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68 March 26, 1797 James Hutton, geologist, dies March 26, 1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 March 26, 1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 March 26, 1713 Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77 March 26, 1657 Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69 March 26, 1649 John Winthrop, Puritan and 1st Governor (Mass), dies March 26, 1638 Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 March 26, 1566 Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies March 26, 1546 Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies March 26, 1350 Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Leon, dies March 26, 1258 Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies March 26, 809 Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66 March 26, 752 Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies |