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2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80

1999 Hoyt Axton, singer/actor/songwriter, Joy to the World, dies at 61

1996 Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82

1994 Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60

1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure

1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47

1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman

1991 Joy Finzi, Joyce A Black, British painter, dies at 84

1985 Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) New York City at 91

1981 Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies

1980 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23

1980 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69

1978 Louise Joy Brown, born in Oldham, England, world's 1st "test tube baby"

1977 Tania Joy Gibson, born in Lake Barrington, Illinois, Miss America-Illinois 1997

1971 Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy), dies of cancer at 75

1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia

1968 Joy Fawcett, Inglewood California, soccer defender 1996 Olympics

1966 Traylor Howard, born in Orlando, Florida, actress, Joy Byrnes-Boston Common

1964 Joy Ellen Kitzmiller, born in Los Angeles, California, U.S. badminton player 1992 Olympics

1964 Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80

1957 Stephen Morris, English pop drummer, Joy Division-Atmosphere

1956 U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks

1956 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist, Joy Division-Transmission

1956 Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist, Joy Division

1951 Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club

1945 Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields

1945 Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker, Joy of a Toy

1945 Joy Garrett, actress, Jo-Days of Our Lives

1945 [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings

1943 Joy Harmon, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cool Hand Luke

1942 Jeff Neighbour, U.S. bassist, Joy of Cooking

1942 John McLaughlin, rock guitarist, Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy

1938 Toni Brown, U.S. guitarist/singer/keyboardist, Joy of Cooking

1938 Terry Garthwaite, U.S. guitarist/singer, Joy of Cooking

1935 Reverend Ike, South Carolina, evangelist minister, Joy of Living

1934 Norman Beaton, actor, Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn

1933 Ron Wilson, U.S. percussionist, Joy of Cooking

1924 Joy Page, American Actress

1923 Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist, Joy Beneath the Skin

1921 Joan Tetzel, born in New York City, actress, Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning

1921 Logan Ramsey, born in Long Beach, California, actor, Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes

1920 Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior

1910 Joy Adamson, naturalist/author, Born Free

1907 Joy Finzi, Joyce A. Black, British painter

1904 John Breeden, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street

1902 Blanche Calloway, U.S. vocalist/dancer, 12 Clouds of Joy

1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti, born in Alexandria, Egypt, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy'

1884 Nicholas Joy, Paris, France, actor, Boss Lady

1770 Ludwig Van Beethoven, composer, 5th Symphony, Ode to Joy

1770 Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer, Ode to Joy

1759 Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist, Ode to Joy


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