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2000 Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman
1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
1994 John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
1994 Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
1994 Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
1993 Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1993 Lucinda Ballard, U.S. costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
1990 Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
1987 Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
1986 Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
1986 Jacob A. W. Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81
1986 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1981 Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1979 Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1977 Groucho Martin, New York City, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1977 Groucho Marx, American Comedian
1976 Alastair Sim, actor 'Christmas Carol', 'Green for Danger', dies at 75
1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
1974 ... Davies, U.S. ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1971 Walther Victor, writer, dies
1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1967 Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84
1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1958 Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
1955 Geza Revesz, Hungary/Dutch psychologist (Talent and genius), dies at 76
1954 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1947 Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1945 Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher
1944 Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
1909 Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1892 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
1891 Gestur Palsson, Icelandic writer (Verdandi, Ritsafn), dies at 38
1889 Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1888 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
1881 Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
1876 George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
1853 George Cockburn, British Soldier
1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
1823 Robert Bloomfield, English Poet
1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
1812 Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
1753 [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1744 Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
1719 Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
1699 Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
1691 Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1662 Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher
1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1650 Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55
1601 Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1580 Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
472 Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies
440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies











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