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1995 Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80
1986 Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59 1986 Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart 1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke 1983 Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62 1951 Paul Dresher, born in Los Angeles, California, Paul Joseph Dresher, composer, drummer, minimalist and post-minimalist genres, studied at University of California, Berkeley, 2006 Guggenheim fellowship recipient 1947 Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient 1946 Anne Boyd, born in Sydney, New South Wales, composer, professor of composition at the University of Sydney, recipient, Order of Australia, for contributions to music 1939 Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1938 Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists 1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1914 Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front |
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