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Howard Hunt, dies at 88, of pneumonia in Florida 2006 Virginia Smith, Representative-R-Nebraska 1975 - 1991, 2004 Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo/Clarabell the Clown, dies at 76 2004 Helmut Newton, photographer, Vogue, dies at 83 2003 Nell Carter, actress, Gimme a Break, dies at 54 2002 Robert Nozick, American Philosopher 1999 Jay Pritzker, billionaire, founded the Hyatt hotel chain, dies at 76 1998 Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies 1997 David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76 1997 Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68 1997 Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jump at Superbowl rehearsal at 43 1997 Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47 1997 Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67 1997 Richard Berry, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times, dies at 61 1996 Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85 1996 Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, dies at 54 1995 Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100 1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57 1995 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91 1995 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75 1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76 1994 Oliver Smith, U.S. set designer (Guys and Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75 1994 Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44 1994 Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95 1993 Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57 1993 Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies 1992 Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67 1992 Ian Wolfe, actor (Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95 1992 Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies 1991 Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic 1990 Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies 1989 Salvador Dali, Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84 1988 Dan Daniel, Representative-D-Virginia, 1969 - 1988 1986 Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 1984 Samuel Gardner, composer, dies at 92 1982 Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83 1981 Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66 1981 Samuel Barber, U.S. composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70 1978 Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74 1978 Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32 1977 Bernard "Toots" Shor, barkeeper, dies at 73 1976 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44 1976 Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77 1975 Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94 1969 Jaroslav Kricka, composer, dies at 86 1966 Jo van Ammers-Kuller, Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), dies at 81 1964 Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80 1956 Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62 1947 Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79 1946 Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68 1946 Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72 1945 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 1944 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80 1943 Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56 1942 Alexander Woollcott, American Critic 1941 Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65 1941 John Oxenham, British Journalist 1939 Ernst Bla, writer, dies 1939 Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide 1936 Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope and Glory), dies at 62 1931 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies 1926 Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74 1926 Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55 1923 Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic 1921 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83 1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated 1908 Edward Alexander MacDowell, U.S. composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47 1898 W A Remy, composer, dies at 66 1893 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 1891 Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21 1883 Gustave Dore, French illustrator, dies at 51 1879 Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 1875 Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55 1864 Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50 1845 Francesco Ruggi, composer, dies at 77 1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 1837 John Field, composer, dies at 54 1814 Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52 1813 George Clymer, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 73 1806 William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain 1783 - 1806, dies at 46 1805 Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63 1800 Edward Rutledge, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50 1744 Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher 1708 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80 1648 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40 1639 Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake 1622 William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 1548 Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57 1516 Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63 1356 Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies 1002 Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
