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2000 Franklin Garrett, American Historian
1999 Richard Kiley, actor, Man of La Mancha, dies at 76
1996 Joshua Compston, art impressario, dies at 26
1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
1996 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier, dies at 90
1996 Whit Bissell, actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86
1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphal-St. Elsewhere), dies
1995 Marguerite Kelsey, English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
1994 Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
1994 Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at 86
1993 Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80
1993 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
1990 Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
1990 Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer
1984 Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
1984 Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68
1984 William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91
1982 John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33
1982 Clifford P. Case, Senator-R-New Jersey 1955 - 1979, Representative-R-New Jersey 1945 - 1953
1981 Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64
1981 Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86
1980 Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1980 Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
1979 Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81
1977 Lockrem Johnson, composer, dies at 52
1977 Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83
1974 Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67
1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85
1973 Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45
1972 Nils Bjorkander, composer, dies at 78
1971 Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71
1967 Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
1967 Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida
1966 Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76
1966 Enrique E Ecker, Curaeaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79
1966 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
1963 Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
1963 Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30
1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82
1962 Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69
1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist
1956 Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50
1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73
1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer, dies at 61
1953 Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader
1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer
1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at 63
1950 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet
1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer and conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1919 Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67
1904 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
1895 Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
1893 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
1893 Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37
1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70
1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer, dies at 34
1853 Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75
1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1827 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician
1795 Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
1794 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62
1778 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
1770 Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1732 Joseph-Franeois Salomon, composer, dies at 82
1644 Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73
1625 James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1605 Clement VIII, Ippolito Aldofireini, Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1576 Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70
1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies
1561 Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
254 Lucius I, bishop of Rome (253-54), dies
254 St. Lucius I, Pope (253-54), dies
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