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2001 Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84
2001 Katherine Graham, American Publisher
2000 "Raymond E. Portwood, Jr", game creator, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, dies at 66
1998 Hugh Reilly, actor, Lassie, dies at 82
1996 Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator, dies at 85
1996 Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
1996 John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1996 Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
1996 Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
1995 Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
1994 Jean Borotra, Flying Basque, French tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1994 Sebastian Piana, Argentine pianist/tango composer, dies at 91
1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 Scott Salmon, U.S. choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1990 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1989 I. F. Stone, American Journalist
1988 Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death
1985 Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1984 J Delos Jewkes, singer and actor (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1980 Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1979 Doug Meintjes, South Africa cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1978 Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 63
1974 Dizzy Dean, American Athlete
1971 Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1970 Juano Hernandez, actor (St. Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1967 Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot and Blue), dies at 74
1967 Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 John Coltrane, U.S. jazz sax/composer, dies at 40
1966 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1965 Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1961 Ty Cobb, baseball great, Detroit Tigers, dies of cancer at 74
1959 Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44
1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1957 John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30
1955 Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1954 Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1953 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 Maude K Adams, U.S. actress (Little Minister), dies
1947 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
1944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1937 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated
1928 Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1922 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1918 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13
1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46
1918 Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17
1918 Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1903 James A McNeill Whistler, U.S./British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1903 James Whistler, American Artist
1901 John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1878 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1875 Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1871 Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1864 Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29
1864 Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1863 James Johnston Pettigrew, U.S. attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1851 Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1826 Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1824 Tench Coxe, American Economist
1794 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1793 Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1790 Adam Smith, Scottish Economist
1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1763 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1762 Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1753 Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1746 Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1709 Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1682 Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1627 Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1510 Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies
1510 Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1070 Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1025 Boleslaw I Chobry, the brave, duke/king of Poland, dies
924 Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies











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