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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