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2003 Rand Brooks, actor/businessman, Gone With the Wind, dies at 84
2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75
1996 Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98
1996 Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
1996 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69
1996 Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86
1995 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32
1995 Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93
1994 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88
1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
1992 Morris Carnovsky, U.S. actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
1991 Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies)
1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1989 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator
1988 Leonor Sullivan, Representative-D-Missouri 1955 - 1977, dies at 86
1986 Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
1984 Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1983 Henry M. Jackson, Senator-D-Washington 1941 - 1983, dies at 71 of an aortic aneurysm
1983 Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1983 Henry M. Jackson, American Politician
1982 Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75
1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1981 Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76
1981 Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
1981 Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32
1979 Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
1978 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33
1977 Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76
1972 May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84
1970 Francois Mauriac, writer, dies
1969 Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1969 William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46
1968 Granville English, composer, dies at 69
1967 Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76
1967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
1964 George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76
1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R.
1963 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1959 Jack Norworth, American Musician
1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
1951 Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German drawer/painter, dies at 38
1948 Charles A. Beard, American Historian
1945 Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
1941 Benjamin Dwight, U.S. tennis championship umpire, dies
1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1912 Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
1912 Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
1903 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
1896 Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
1880 Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75
1867 Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1838 William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68
1814 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53
1801 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
1780 Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69
1777 Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
1731 Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50
1729 Richard Steele, British Dramatist
1715 Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76
1680 Johan Georg II, ruler of Saxon (1656-80), dies at 67
1671 Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies
1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1406 Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84
1215 Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht
1159 Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope (1154-59), dies
1067 Boudouin V, earl of Flanders/guardian of king of France, dies
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