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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, South Carolina 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, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, 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 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 1950 Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 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, born in Sydney, Australia, 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 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 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 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 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 1891 Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe' 1882 Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph, Missouri 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 Brigadier-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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