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2009 Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47

1997 Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100

1996 Eva Hart, Titanic survivor, dies at 90

1994 Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59

1992 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103

1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize

1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87

1961 Mike Francis, born in Florence, Italy, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis'

1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1951 Jimi Jamison, rocker, Survivor

1950 Jim Peterik, rocker, Survivor

1943 Richard Moll, Cal, actor, Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor

1934 Karl Francis Hettinger, Onion Field survivor

1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style

1928 Tom Lantos, born in Hungary, Holocaust survivor, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from California

1910 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet, Survivor

1896 Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor

1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement

1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43

1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959


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