1010 - Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 - King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 - Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
1410 - Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
1442 - Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1567 - Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
1614 - Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1654 - Francois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1703 - Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
1707 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1737 - Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
1783 - Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
1792 - Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
1839 - Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
1841 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1854 - William Beale, composer, dies at 70
1856 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1861 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
1863 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 35
1868 - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
1881 - Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1893 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
1902 - David R Capriles, Curacaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
1910 - Artie Shaw, bandleader
1917 - Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1918 - Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
1921 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1926 - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1931 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
1931 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
1932 - Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
1939 - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71
1942 - Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 - Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
1945 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
1955 - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1958 - Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
1961 - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53
1964 - Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
1965 - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
1966 - Wylie Watson, dies at 77
1968 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
1969 - Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42
1969 - Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1970 - Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 - Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1972 - Les Harvey, rocker, dies
1975 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
1976 - David Bruce, dies at 62
1976 - Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1978 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
1979 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1982 - Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1983 - Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
1986 - Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
1987 - Yolande Christina Dalida, dies at 54
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1989 - Muriel Ostriche, dies
1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1990 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
1991 - Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 - Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
1991 - Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 - Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
1992 - George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
1992 - Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
1994 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
1994 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
1994 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
1995 - Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
1996 - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1996 - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45
1997 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2000 - John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 - Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2002 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2004 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 - Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2007 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 - Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2008 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)

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1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1594 - Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1604 - Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
1752 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1832 - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1855 - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1858 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1860 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies
1879 - William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1885 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1901 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
1916 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
1919 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1928 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1929 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1953 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
1955 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1961 - Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
1965 - Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1966 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
1970 - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 - William Schroeder (b. 1950)
1971 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1971 - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1973 - Jane Bowles, writer, dies at 56
1974 - Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
1974 - John Wengraf, actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
1975 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
1980 - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies
1983 - Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
1984 - Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
1987 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
1987 - Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
1990 - Don Appell, dies
1991 - Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
1992 - Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
1994 - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
1995 - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
1996 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
1997 - Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
1997 - Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
2001 - Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)

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200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
311 - Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
1028 - Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle
1194 - Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies
1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
1309 - Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
1504 - Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
1525 - Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62
1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
1582 - Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1613 - Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1678 - Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
1702 - Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79
1705 - Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1786 - Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies
1801 - Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1821 - Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
1827 - Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1831 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65
1837 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1840 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67
1840 - Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76
1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 - Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
1864 - Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
1864 - John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43
1864 - Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42
1875 - Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71
1885 - Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73
1886 - Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61
1892 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1902 - Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65
1909 - Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
1921 - Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
1927 - Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
1951 - Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
1956 - Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
1957 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1960 - Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (990 runs in 14 Tests for England), dies
1963 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies
1963 - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
1968 - Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62
1969 - Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
1971 - Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
1971 - Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
1972 - Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76
1976 - Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
1978 - Alfred H H Gilligan, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1979 - Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
1980 - Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
1981 - Bobby Sands, IRA activist/terrorist dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike
1983 - John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
1986 - Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94
1988 - George Rose, actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68
1988 - Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
1989 - Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies
1991 - William De Acutis, dies at 33
1992 - Ben Frommer, dies at 78
1992 - Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
1992 - Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
1993 - Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
1993 - Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
1993 - Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79
1994 - Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
1994 - Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
1995 - Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86
1995 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
1995 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86
1995 - James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1995 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75
1995 - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies
1995 - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
1996 - Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86
1996 - Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58
1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)

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these lists redefine what famous means

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Diogenes Of Sinope

these lists redefine what famous means

No doubt there.

Here's one you can add to the May 4th list...

Dom DeLuise Passes Away

ET confirms that Dom DeLuise has died.

The Golden Globe-nominated comic actor died Monday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 75 years old.

Dom is probably best-known for his work in Mel Brooks films like 'Blazing Saddles,' 'Silent Movie,' 'History Of The World Part One,' 'Space Balls,' 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights,' and co-starring with Burt Reynolds in films like 'Cannonball Run,' 'Smokey and The Bandit 2' and 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.'

He also hosted the popular TV show "Candid Camera" from 1991-1992. Dom was an avid cook and author, penning several cooking guides and children's books.

Keep checking back here for more on this breaking story...

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Beat you to it SJ. ;)

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these lists redefine what famous means

No doubt there.

Here's one you can add to the May 4th list...

Dom DeLuise Passes Away

ET confirms that Dom DeLuise has died.

The Golden Globe-nominated comic actor died Monday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 75 years old.

Dom is probably best-known for his work in Mel Brooks films like 'Blazing Saddles,' 'Silent Movie,' 'History Of The World Part One,' 'Space Balls,' 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights,' and co-starring with Burt Reynolds in films like 'Cannonball Run,' 'Smokey and The Bandit 2' and 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.'

He also hosted the popular TV show "Candid Camera" from 1991-1992. Dom was an avid cook and author, penning several cooking guides and children's books.

Keep checking back here for more on this breaking story...

We lost a good one there. He never failed to make me laugh.

*If I remember correctly, he had a very small role in the classic "FAILSAFE", one of my favorite movies. I don't know if many remember that part he played.

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Beat you to it SJ. ;)

13 seconds too, No wonder I didn't see It.

Yep, I just barely beat you.

I posted it on our team boards this morning and the outrage had already started by that time.

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1950 - Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
1952 - Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
1960 - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
1961 - Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
1963 - Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
1964 - Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1971 - Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
1972 - Deniz GezmiÅŸ, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947)
1973 - Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
1976 - Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
1978 - Ethelda Bleibtrey, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
1978 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
1982 - Sam Baker, dies
1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 - William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
1989 - Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
1990 - Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
1991 - Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
1991 - Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
1991 - Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
1992 - Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
1992 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
1993 - Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
1993 - Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in NY at 77
1994 - Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
1994 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
1994 - Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
1994 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
1994 - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
1995 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
1995 - Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
1995 - Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
1996 - Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
1996 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
1996 - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
1996 - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
1996 - Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)
2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2007 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
2007 - Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)

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To quote the Cartoon show The Critic "If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times... who are all you people?!?!"

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Diogenes Of Sinope

1989 - Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65

2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)

2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)

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1079 - Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered
1280 - Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1443 - Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
1460 - Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies
1474 - Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded
1590 - Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66
1657 - William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
1667 - Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48)
1688 - Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68
1707 - Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1760 - Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59
1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1770 - Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61
1785 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44
1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
1799 - Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72
1805 - Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45
1805 - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45
1822 - Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62
1850 - Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
1853 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1864 - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
1864 - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident
1880 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54
1884 - Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69
1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
1905 - Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
1914 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - George CoÅŸbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
1926 - Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
1927 - Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for S Africa 1892-96), dies
1928 - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
1931 - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1937 - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43
1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
1944 - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86
1945 - Clem Hill, cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies
1949 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1951 - Marie Ault, dies at 80
1952 - Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in NYC at 45
1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
1957 - Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
1957 - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67
1958 - Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
1965 - Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62
1966 - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56
1966 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
1967 - Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies
1967 - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35
1968 - Finlay Currie, dies at 90
1968 - Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
1968 - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
1968 - Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1970 - Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84
1970 - Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies
1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1974 - Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69
1975 - Philip Dorn, dies at 73
1976 - Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
1976 - Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
1977 - James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
1977 - Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95
1979 - Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73
1981 - C E "Nip" Pellew, cricketer (10 Tests 484 runs at 37), dies
1981 - Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72
1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69
1986 - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], Limbourg activist, dies at 60
1986 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62
1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
1989 - Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33
1989 - Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82
1990 - Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66
1990 - Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
1991 - James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies
1991 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
1992 - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
1993 - Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
1993 - Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98
1993 - Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
1995 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68
1995 - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74
1995 - Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82
1995 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for S Afr), dies
1997 - Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919)
2002 - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2004 - Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
2007 - Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (b. 1901)
2007 - Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (b. 1964)
2008 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
2008 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)

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1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1964 - Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
1964 - Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1965 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch min of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
1968 - Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
1968 - Philippa Bevans, dies at 55
1968 - Scotty Beckett, dies at 38
1971 - Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79
1971 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75
1973 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
1973 - Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51
1974 - Hal Mohr, Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
1976 - George Curzon, dies at 77
1976 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
1977 - Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69
1979 - John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies
1979 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
1982 - Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
1982 - Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65
1983 - John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
1984 - Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41
1984 - Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
1990 - Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61
1990 - Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
1991 - Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
1992 - Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
1992 - John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81
1992 - Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies
1992 - Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
1994 - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
1994 - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
1995 - Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
1995 - Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83
1995 - Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67
1997 - Joanie Weston, roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61
1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
2000 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
2000 - Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 - David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
2006 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
2006 - A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
2006 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
2006 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
2008 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2008 - Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)

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1910 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
1911 - E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1919 - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies
1923 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
1926 - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892), dies
1935 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
1939 - Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
1940 - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
1940 - Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 - Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
1959 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60
1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1968 - Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
1968 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
1969 - Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64
1969 - Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69
1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1972 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78
1972 - Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies
1975 - Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
1975 - Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
1980 - Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies
1984 - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
1985 - George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
1986 - Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
1986 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83
1989 - Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70
1989 - Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42
1989 - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
1991 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1993 - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
1994 - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
1994 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
1994 - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
1996 - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
1996 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37
1996 - Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies
1996 - John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76
1996 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70
1996 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1997 - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944

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1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44
1991 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
2001 Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2006 Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)

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1443 Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1906 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1913 Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 Brzeska, sculptor, dies
1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
2001 Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spa

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1944 - Allied Invasion of Europe at Normandy (D-Day). The individuals may not have been famous, but what they did certainly is.

1944 - Allied Invasion of Europe at Normandy (D-Day). The individuals may not have been famous, but what they did certainly is.

Amen

1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
2002 Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)

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1809 Thomas Paine (b.January 29, 1737 )