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2001 Charlotte Coleman, actress, Four Weddings and a Funeral, dies at 33

1997 Princess Diana's funeral

1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral

1992 Emperor Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, of Ethiopia's, funeral

1991 Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die

1990 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella

1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956

1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed

1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme

1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)

1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki

1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes

1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78

1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev

1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo

1981 President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma

1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I

1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI

1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War

1973 L C William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral

1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral

1971 Amber Smith, born in Tampa, Florida, actress in Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill

1964 During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home

1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)

1960 Hugh Grant, born in London, England, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months

1949 Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant

1948 Mario Viegas, actor, The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao

1929 Elspet Gray, Lady Rix, actress, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Solo, Tenko

1925 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral

1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria

1920 Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland

1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII

1905 Mary Renault, Mary Challens, writer, King Must Die, Funeral Games

1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City)

1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley

1880 Ole Bull, famous violinist, virtuoso, compared to Niccolo Paganini, co-founder, Den Nationale Scene theater, dies of cancer, at home on Lysoen island, extensive funeral procession had 15 steamers, other vessels, transporting his body

1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1852 State funeral of duke of Wellington (London)

1829 Britain abolished "suttee" in India, widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre

1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)


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