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October 12, 2003 Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75 October 12, 2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72 October 12, 2002 Ray Conniff, arranger/bandleader, Lara's Theme, dies at 85 October 12, 1999 "Wilt ""The Stilt"" Chamberlain", basketball great/sometime actor, Record-smashing basketball player who scored over 70 points in several pro games, dies at 63 October 12, 1997 John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53 October 12, 1996 David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86 October 12, 1996 Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79 October 12, 1996 Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75 October 12, 1996 Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84 October 12, 1995 Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78 October 12, 1995 Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55 October 12, 1993 Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke October 12, 1992 Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor and writer (Farce Major), dies October 12, 1992 John Hancock, actor (Catch the Heat), dies of a heart attack at 51 October 12, 1992 Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident October 12, 1991 Aline MacMahon, U.S. actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92 October 12, 1991 Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89 October 12, 1991 Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75 October 12, 1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies October 12, 1990 Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered October 12, 1989 Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51 October 12, 1989 Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends), dies at 79 October 12, 1988 Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85 October 12, 1987 Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100 October 12, 1987 Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77 October 12, 1985 Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75 October 12, 1985 Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32 October 12, 1983 Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61 October 12, 1982 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73 October 12, 1979 Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82 October 12, 1977 Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81 October 12, 1974 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74 October 12, 1971 Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78 October 12, 1971 Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36 October 12, 1971 Dean Acheson, American Statesman October 12, 1969 Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies October 12, 1969 Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), dies at 57 October 12, 1967 Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72 October 12, 1966 Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74 October 12, 1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office October 12, 1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61 October 12, 1959 Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63 October 12, 1958 Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30 October 12, 1958 Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59 October 12, 1951 Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62 October 12, 1948 Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80 October 12, 1947 Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42 October 12, 1946 Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies October 12, 1940 Tom Mix, U.S. actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60 October 12, 1929 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52 October 12, 1924 Anatole France, writer, dies at 80 October 12, 1924 Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71 October 12, 1922 Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33 October 12, 1915 Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) October 12, 1915 Edith Cavell, American Public Servant October 12, 1892 Ernest Renan, French Philosopher October 12, 1870 Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 October 12, 1870 Robert E. Lee, American Soldier October 12, 1865 William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53 October 12, 1864 Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 October 12, 1860 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 October 12, 1858 Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61 October 12, 1844 Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies October 12, 1837 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 October 12, 1829 Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 October 12, 1820 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 October 12, 1817 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 October 12, 1797 Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 October 12, 1794 James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 October 12, 1791 A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 October 12, 1730 Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies October 12, 1694 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies October 12, 1692 Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 October 12, 1685 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59 October 12, 1672 Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle October 12, 1654 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch court clerk of States-General, dies at 66 October 12, 1654 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident October 12, 1646 Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies October 12, 1576 Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies October 12, 1343 Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies October 12, 1320 Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies October 12, 1093 Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 October 12, 642 Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies October 12, 638 Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies |