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2004 Bob Bemer, Pioneering geek, ", helped to develop the ASCII character set, COBOL and the ESC sequence, ", dies at 84 2002 Edsger Dijkstra, programmer, helped to vanquish the GOTO statement in programming, dies at 72 2001 Emilie Schindler, humanitarian, ", helped save 1,000 Jews during WWII, ", dies at 93 1999 Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95 1993 W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 1993 Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87 1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes 1884 Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar 1862 Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds 1840 Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii 1793 Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine 1785 Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution 1494 Johan Friis, chancellor, Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism

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