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2006 Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague

2000 Christopher Pettiet, actor, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, dies at 24

1997 Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84

1997 Willem de Kooning, abstract artist, dead Alzheimer's at 92

1997 Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24

1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

1996 Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35

1995 Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53

1995 George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88

1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead

1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead

1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden

1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32

1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons

1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead

1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead

1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead

1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl SC

1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66

1993 Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86

1992 Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69

1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44

1992 Morris Carnovsky, U.S. actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94

1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war

1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history

1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public

1990 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48

1989 "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres

1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47

1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless

1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome

1988 Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia

1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11

1988 Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68

1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers

1987 Ben and Jerry Ice Cream and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia

1987 Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead

1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead

1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead

1986 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma

1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas

1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV

1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead

1985 Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda

1985 Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York City restaurant

1985 Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72

1984 Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead

1984 Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45

1984 Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead

1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead

1984 Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead

1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA

1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead

1982 Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead

1982 Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead

1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador

1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured

1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead

1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement

1980 Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73

1979 Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31

1978 Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80

1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt

1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia

1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead

1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)

1977 Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54

1975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead

1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead

1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"

1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris

1975 Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47

1975 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack

1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50

1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession

1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27

1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California

1971 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48

1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice

1971 Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36

1970 Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69

1970 Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas, actor, Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers

1970 ... Haley, U.S. judge, shot dead

1970 James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead

1970 Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead

1970 William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead

1970 Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S.

1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges

1969 Jacqueline Hennessy, Edmonton, actress, Dead Ringers

1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)

1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead

1969 Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh

1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents

1967 Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead and plays the Straightater

1967 Nicole Kidman, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Dead Calm, Far and Away

1967 Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk

1967 Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," premieres

1966 Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead

1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead at 22

1966 John Cusack, born in Chicago, actor, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead

1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home

1965 Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42

1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby

1962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35

1962 Steve Coy, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round

1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56

1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax, Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round

1961 Kassie Wesley, born in Kentucky, actress, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live

1961 Mike Percy, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round

1960 Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again

1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea

1959 Pete Burns, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round

1958 Rik Mayall, comedian, Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises

1957 Laurie Mann, geek, Dead People Server curator since 1997

1956 Alec John Such, U.S. pop bassist, Bon Jovi-Wanted Dead or Alive

1955 Cathy Ladman, comedienne, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1955 Bill Paxton, actor, Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies

1955 Penn Jillette, born in Massachusetts, magician, Penn and Teller-Penn and Teller are Dead

1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls

1952 Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55

1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead

1949 William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist, Grateful Dead, Tubes

1948 Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist, Grateful Dead

1947 Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor, Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano

1947 Donna Godchaux, rocker, Grateful Dead

1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal

1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20

1946 Bill Kreutzmann, Jr., born in Palo Alto California, drummer, Grateful Dead

1946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer, Grateful Dead

1946 Bill Kreutzmann, born in California, rock drummer, Grateful Dead, Grass Roots

1945 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, California, rocker, Grateful Dead, Grass Roots

1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead

1944 Jane Lapotaire, actress, Spirit of the Dead

1944 Peter Weir, Sydney Aust, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society

1944 Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead

1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

1943 Jim Morrison, Melbourne, Florida, singer, Doors, is he really dead?

1943 Mickey Hart, drummer, Grateful Dead

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)

1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance

1943 Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40

1942 Curtis Mayfield, born in Chicago, rock vocalist, Freddie's Dead, Superfly

1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed

1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead

1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead

1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1940 Robby Mueller, cinematographer, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak

1940 Phil Lesh, [Chapman], born in California, rock bassist, Grass Roots, Grateful Dead

1939 New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead

1938 Derek Jacobi, London, actor, Lanner-Strauss Family, Dead Again

1938 James Farentino, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dead and Buried, Final Countdown

1936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track

1935 Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in New York City

1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio

1934 John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33

1934 Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual muse

1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive

1933 Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead

1932 Lindbergh baby, found dead

1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)

1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri

1931 Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor, Dead

1930 Sally Ann Howes, born in London, England, actress, Dead of Night

1930 Steve McQueen, born in Slater, Missouri, actor, Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt

1928 Leo P[atrick] Kelley, U.S., sci-fi author, Dead Moon, Vacation in Space

1927 Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead

1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead

1924 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead

1923 Norman Mailer, New Jersey, New York City mayoral candidate/novelist, Naked and the Dead

1918 Dennis Patrick, born in Philadelphia, actor, Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals

1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000

1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)

1915 Ellen Drew, [Terry Ray], born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Isle of Dead

1914 R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, U.S., sci-fi author, Devil is Dead

1914 David Ignatow, U.S. poet, Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead

1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)

1913 Stewart Granger, actor, Saraband for Dead Lovers

1912 Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica

1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)

1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit

1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later

1902 Jan RT Campert, writer, Song the 18 dead

1902 Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet, Dead Reckoning

1902 Flora Robson, born in South Shields, England, actress, Dominique is Dead

1899 Guy Wilkerson, Texas, actor, Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron

1897 Morris Carnovsky, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dead Reckoning

1893 Norman Bel Geddes, born in Adrian, Michigan, theatrical designer, Rivals, Dead End

1882 Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph Mo by Robert Ford

1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat

1877 Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress, Dead Water

1876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's

1875 John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water

1872 Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)

1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead

1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27

1864 Battle of Honey Hill South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded

1863 Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38

1861 James T Jackson, U.S. landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)

1852 Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies

1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies

1810 Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French and Bavarians, shot dead

1809 Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls

1718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead



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