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Galbraith, dies at 79, at his home in Manhattan 2006 Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman 2002 Carrie Hamilton, actress/writer, Hollywood Arms, dies at 38 2002 Peggy Lee, singer, Is That All There Is?, dies at 81 2001 Sandy Baron, comic, Broadway Danny Rose, dies at 63 1999 Jules Lederer, businessman, Budget Rent-A-Car, dies at 81 1998 Jack Lord, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 77 1997 Dennis Main Wilson, TV and radio producer, dies at 72 1997 Michael Duane, educationalist, dies at 81 1997 Colonel Tom Parker, manager, promoted Elvis, dies at 87 1996 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65 1996 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88 1995 Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25 1995 John Halas, animator, dies at 82 1995 Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30 1994 Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31 1992 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, U.S. boxer/pianist, dies at 81 1992 Boris Arapov, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 1991 Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies 1991 Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87 1988 Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies 1987 Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83 1985 Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema 1984 Jackie Wilson, U.S. singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49 1981 Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79 1977 John Vincent, composer, dies at 74 1977 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76 1975 Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84 1974 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 1974 Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78 1971 Richard Russell, Jr., Senator-D-Georgia 1933 - 1971, dies at 73 1967 Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51 1965 Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68 1964 Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68 1963 Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70 1962 Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76 1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 1961 John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday 1959 Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77 1959 Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61 1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer 1957 Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87 1955 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59 1954 Billy Jenkins, dies at 69 1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46 1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72 1944 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74 1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down 1943 Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61 1942 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72 1932 [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 1931 Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67 1927 Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53 1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader 1903 Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58 1901 Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1894 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24 1892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies 1891 Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48 1888 Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83 1884 Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75 1883 Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62 1882 Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72 1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81 1871 John J Rochussen, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73 1862 Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, dies at 41 1851 Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 1831 Achim vs. Arnim, writer, dies at 49 1815 Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 1793 Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 1774 Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 1746 Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 1704 Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 1686 Nicolas-Franeois Blondel, French architect, dies 1683 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 1665 Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 1626 John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 1596 John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1118 Paschalis II, Raniero, pope (1099-1118), dies 879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
