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2005 Howell Heflin, American Politician
2005 Howell Heflin, Senator-D-Alabama 1979 - 1997, died of a heart attack
2004 Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95
2003 Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, "
2003 Harry Ellis Dickson, American Musician
2001 Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer
1999 Joe Williams, jazz singer, sang with Count Basie, dies at 80
1998 Casey Cisyk, jingle singer, dies at 44
1997 Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
1997 Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94
1996 Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
1995 Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
1995 Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
1995 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1995 John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
1994 Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
1994 Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
1994 William Huston Natcher, Representative-D-Kentucky 1953 - 1994, dies at 84
1992 Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1991 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey and Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73
1986 Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
1983 Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65
1982 Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
1982 Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
1982 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80
1982 Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier
1981 Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79
1980 ... Mantovani, orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
1979 Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
1974 Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71
1972 J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1970 Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist
1966 Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at 50
1964 Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
1959 Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
1959 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84
1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84
1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1957 Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist
1955 Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1946 John Clapham, English Economist
1945 Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1933 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52
1930 Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1917 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
1912 Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1911 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
1892 William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
1886 John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth
1880 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62
1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
1848 John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1847 Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66
1839 Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/General-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1837 Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
1802 Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51
1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1792 Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1788 Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
1772 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Environmentalist
1745 Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1697 Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies
1655 Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
1650 Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1546 Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered
1058 Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies
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