| 11th 
            March, on this day  1425 BC Thutmose 
            III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the Low Chronology of 
            the 18th Dynasty). 537 Goths 
            lay siege to Rome
 843 Icon worship 
            officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
 1302 Romeo 
            and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
 1387 Battle 
            of Castagnaro one of the most famous battles of the Italian condottieri 
            age
 1502 Tebriz 
            shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
 1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope 
            Leo X
 1563 League of High Nobles' second protest against King Philip II
 1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
 1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
 1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious 
            rights
 1669 Mount Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
 1682 Founding of the Chelsea Hospital for old soldiers
 1702 1st English daily newspaper, "Daily 
            Courant", is published
 1708 Queen 
            Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish 
            Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
 1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
 1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
 1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 
            1 US patent
 1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
 1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
 1801 Paul 
            I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander 
            I to accede the throne.
 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
 1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
 1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT
 1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
 1845 The 
            Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti led 
            700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out 
            of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches 
            of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
 1845 Henry Jones invents self-raising flour
 1848 Louis-Hippolyte 
            Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers 
            of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system 
            of responsible government.
 1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" 
            premieres in Venice
 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
 1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him 
            head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
 1864 In England, the Bradford 
            Reservoir near Sheffield bursts its banks - 250 people are killed
 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
 1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris 
            France
 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
 1872 Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located 
            on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
 1888 Great 
            blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US
 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
 1915 Battle 
            of Adrianople
 1917 British 
            troops occupy Baghdad
 1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish 
            Flu observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
 1926 Eamon 
            da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
 1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
 1935 Bank 
            of Canada opens
 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor 
            of Austria
 1938 German troops enter Austria
 1941 The US Congress passes the Lend -Lease Bill enabling Britain 
            to borrow millions of dollars to buy food and arms needed for World 
            War II. The loan is only to be paid back after the war
 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration 
            Camp
 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
 1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
 1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
 1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
 1945 The Krupps munitions factory in Germany is destroyed during an 
            Allied 1,000 plane daylight bombing raid
 1945 The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack 
            on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan 
            No. 2.
 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
 1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, 
            the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
 1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
 1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, 
            opens
 1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little 
            Bit"
 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
 1966 A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
 1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
 1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' 
            On) the Dock of the Bay"
 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts
 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce's 
            Album
 1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
 1977 Moslems 
            hold 130 hostages in Washington DC
 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed. The Israelis 
            retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename 
            Operation Litani.
 1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
 1982 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington 
            DC
 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 
            BC
 1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm
 1988 £ note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by £ coin
 1988 Iran-Iraq War: Iran and Iraq agreed to stop attacking civilian 
            centers.
 1990 Patricio 
            Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean 
            president since 1970
 1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence
 1991 A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after 
            fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
 1991 Janet 
            Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records
 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as 
            number 1
 1994 Eduardo 
            Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
 1994 A second IRA terrorist mortar attack on Heathrow Airport in 36 
            hours again fails to cause any damage
 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry 
            Adams, arrives in US
 1996 John 
            Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His 
            Prime Ministership lasts for the 2nd longest Period in Australian 
            history, finally ending on 3 December 2007.
 1997 An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 
            35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear 
            accident in Japan's history.
 1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene 
            Roddenberry are launched into space
 1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
 1999 British paratrooper Lee 
            Clegg is cleared of murdering teenage joyrider Karen Reilly, nine 
            years ago, during a hearing in Belfast Crown Court
 2000 82 die in 
            a coal mine disaster (Barakova, Krasnodon, Ukraine)
 2003 The International 
            Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
 2004 170 
            people loose their lives during the Madrid train Bombing
 2006 Michelle 
            Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 11th March : 1544 Torquato Tasso 
            Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) 1549 Hendrik L Spieghel Dutch merchant/Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
 1596 Isaac Elsevier book publisher
 1654 Heinrich Georg Neuss composer
 1683 Giovanni Veneziano composer
 1726 Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay France, writer (Woman, 
            Man & 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess
 1731 Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
 1754 Juan Meléndez Valdés Spanish lawyer/poet
 1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich composer
 1793 Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist
 1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune
 1812 James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887
 1812 Pieter Blussé van Oud-Alblas Dutch liberal minister of 
            Finance
 1812 William Vincent Wallace composer
 1818 John Wilkins Whitfield Brigadier General (Confederate Army), 
            died in 1879
 1819 Henry Tate English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
 1819 Marius Petipa French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
 1822 Allison Nelson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 
            1862
 1827 Septimus Winner composer
 1832 Franz Melde German physicist (Melde test)
 1832 William Ruffin Cox Brigadier General (Confederate Army-2nd North 
            Carolina Infantry), died in 1919
 1840 Edmund Kirby Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 
            1863
 1846 António C G Crespo Brazilian/Portuguese poet
 1860 Thomas Hastings New York NY, architect (New York Public Library)
 1863 Andrew Stoddart cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
 1863 Wobbe de Vries Dutch linguist
 1872 Abraham van Stolk Jzn lumber merchant/art collector
 1876 Carl Ruggles Marion MA, composer (Evocations)
 1876 David Wijnkoop Dutch revolutionary socialist
 1879 Justus Hermann Wetzel composer
 1879 Niels Bjerrum Danish chemist (ph tests)
 1884 Jan Lemaire Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
 1885 Malcolm Campbell 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/minutes (8 
            km/minute)
 1890 Vannevar Bush developed 1st electronic analogue computer
 1892 Raoul Walsh New York NY, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry)
 1892 Wladyslaw Anders Polish General (WWI, WWII)
 1897 Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park CA, composer (New Musical Resources)
 1898 Dorothy Gish Massillon OH, stage & silent film actress (Orphans 
            of the Storm)
 1899 Frederick IX king of Denmark (1947-72)
 19-- Nancy Sloan actress (Katie-Bold & Beautiful)
 1902 Josef Martin Bauer writer
 1903 Dorothy Schiff publisher (New York Post)
 1903 George Dickinson cricketer (bowled for New Zealand in their 1st 
            3 Tests)
 1904 Cornelis Jan Bakker Dutch/US nuclear physicist
 1904 Maurits Wertheim Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
 1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar composer
 1907 Eleni Gatzoyiannis heroine (saved her kids)
 1907 Helmuth J von Moltke German politician (July 20th plot)
 1907 Jessie Matthews London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)
 1907 Margaret Herbison British minister (Lab)
 1908 Lawrence Welk Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
 1909 Ljubica Maric composer
 1910 Robert H G Havemann German chemist
 1911 Alan Gifford Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
 1911 Fitzroy Maclean British diplomat soldier politician/historian
 1912 Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar
 1912 Xavier Montsalvatge Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
 1913 John Jacob Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
 1913 Thomas Gray professor/anaesthetist
 1914 Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
 1915 Karl Krolow writer
 1915 Vijay Hazare cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54)
 1916 Sir [James] Harold Wilson (L) British Prime Minister (1964-70, 
            1974-76)
 1917 GE Göran Schildt Finnish art historian/writer (Solbåten)
 1918 Al Eben Philadelphia PA, actor (Doc Bergman-Hawaii Five-0)
 1919 Mercer Ellington son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
 1920 D J Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
 1920 Henry Marking CEO (British Airways)
 1920 Kenneth Dover chancellor (St Andrews University)
 1921 Astor Piazzolla Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
 1921 F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
 1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
 1922 Thom Kelling Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
 1922 Vinnette Carroll New York NY, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers)
 1923 A Louise Brough Clapp Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon 
            champion)
 1923 A X Gwerder writer
 1923 Ad[rianus C] de Besten Dutch literary (River Basin)
 1923 Morschi Mirando [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
 1923 Terence Alexander London England, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
 1925 James Miskin QC/recorder of London
 1926 Adrienne Keith Cohen travel editor
 1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu composer
 1926 Patricia Tindaole England, architect
 1926 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
 1927 Alan Betts emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
 1927 Raymond Jackson [Jaki], British cartoonist
 1927 Robert Mosbacher US politician
 1927 Ron Todd British trade unionist
 1928 Albert Salmi Brooklyn NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
 1928 Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No)
 1929 Erskine Childers unofficial/civil servant
 1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal composer
 1929 Jackie McGlew cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 
            50')
 1930 David Gentleman designer/painter
 1931 Peter Walters CEO (Midland Bank)
 1931 Rupert Murdoch Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV 
            Network
 1932 Nigel Lawson British government official (The Power Game)
 1932 Valerie French London England, actress (Jubal, The Hard Man)
 1933 Terry J Hatter Jr US judge in California
 1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos Greece, medical genetics researcher
 1934 Joep [Joseph Willem Frederik] Straesser composer (Blossom songs, 
            Ramasasiri)
 1934 Keith Speed British MP
 1934 Sam Donaldson El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent (Prime 
            Time)
 1934 Sydney Burke cricketer (South African quick, 11 wickets on Test 
            debut vs New Zealand 1961)
 1936 Antonin Scalia Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- 
            )
 1937 John Ward New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
 1938 Malcolm Keith Speed British high court judge
 1942 Peter Eyre actor (Hedda)
 1944 Ric Rothwell drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
 1945 Harvey Mandel rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
 1945 Mark Stein vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging 
            On)
 1945 Timothy Mason consultant (British Arts Council)
 1945 Tricia O'Neil Shreveport LA, actress (Piranha Part II)
 1946 Brigitte Fossey Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
 1947 Dominique Sanda [Varaigne] Paris France, actress (1900, First 
            Love, Inheritance, Beyond Good & Evil)
 1947 Geoffrey Hunt Australia, world-champion squash player
 1947 Mark Stein Bayonne NJ, rocker (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging 
            On)
 1948 George Kooymans The Hague Netherlands, guitarist/singer (Golden 
            Earring-Radar Love, Twilight Zone)
 1949 Richard de Bois Dutch drummer/producer
 1950 Bobby McFerrin singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-1989 Grammy)
 1950 Jerry Zucker Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
 1952 Douglas Adams Cambridge England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to 
            the Galaxy)
 1952 Susan Richardson Coatesville PA, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
 1955 [Kater]Nina Hagen East Berlin German Democratic Republic, actress 
            (Blue Angel)
 1956 Curtis L Brown Jr Elizabethtown NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 
            47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95)
 1961 Bruce Watson Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
 1961 Mike Percy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
 1962 Peter Berg actor (Chicago Hope)
 1964 Raimo Helminen Tampere Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland, 
            Olympics-bronze-98)
 1965 Eric Jelen West Germany, tennis star
 1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov Russian cosmonaut
 1966 Ralph Tamm NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs)
 1966 Steve Reed Los Angeles CA, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
 1967 Andrew Zesers cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
 1967 Bill Houlder Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
 1968 John Barrowman actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)
 1969 Dan Lacroix Montréal, NHL left wing (New York Rangers)
 1969 John Fina NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
 1970 Brett Liddle Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 
            Newcastle)
 1970 Evgeniy Koreshkov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
 1971 Bob Kronenberg WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
 1971 Jiri Vykoukai Olomouc Czechoslovakia, hockey player (Team Czechoslovakia 
            Republic, Olympics-gold-98)
 1971 Marta Lovera Parquet Miss Paraguay-Universe (1996)
 1971 Martin Rucinsky Most Czechoslovakia, NHL left wing (Canadiens, 
            Olympics-Gold-1998)
 1972 Carl Greenwood NFL cornerback (New York Jets)
 1972 Chris Shelling WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
 1972 Jamal Duff NFL defensive end (New York Giants, Washington Redskins)
 1973 Kennedy Otieno Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 vs Australia 1996 
            World Cup)
 1973 Mike Mihelic CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
 1973 Sammie Brennan CFL defensive back (British Columbia Lions)
 1973 Tony Veland NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
 1974 Billy Granville linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
 1974 David Cameron Australian rower (Olympics-96)
 1974 Kevin Donovan Des Plaines IL, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
 1975 Cedric Henderson NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
 1975 Shawn Springs cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
 1982 Hasan Raza cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred on March 11th:
 0222 Varius A Bassianus Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered 
            at 18?
 0638 Sophronius of Jerusalem saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
 1486 Albrecht III Achilles elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
 1715 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus Flemish painter, dies at 80
 1772 George Reuter composer, dies at 63
 1786 Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
 1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies 
            at 45
 1807 Anton Eberl composer, dies at 41
 1820 Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies 
            at 81
 1826 Gervais-François Couperin composer, dies at 66
 1833 Fridolin Weber composer, dies at 71
 1845 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana
 1857 Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies 
            at 84
 1874 Charles Sumner a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
 1894 John Selby cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
 1897 Berthold Tours composer, dies at 58
 1897 Henry Drummond Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
 1900 Edmund Peate cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
 1907 Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria), murdered
 1908 Peter Milne composer, dies at 83
 1919 Harald Fryklof composer, dies at 36
 1921 Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
 1925 Andreas Hallen composer, dies at 78
 1926 John Henry Anderson cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for 
            South Africa), dies
 1937 Paul Scheinpflug composer, dies at 61
 1941 Walford Davies British organist/composer, dies at 71
 1944 Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies 
            at 62
 1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, dies at 45
 1949 Henri-Honoré Giraud French General/MP, dies at 70
 1949 Juan Lamonte de Grignon composer, dies at 76
 1950 Florence Arliss actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
 1951 Philippe of Isacker Belgian minister, dies at 66
 1955 Alexander Fleming English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 
            73
 1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko Russian opera composer, dies at 
            83
 1957 Richard E Byrd US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
 1959 Haydn Wood composer, dies at 76
 1960 Roy Chapman Andrews US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
 1962 Will Vesper German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
 1963 Mahomed Nissar cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wickets), 
            dies
 1965 James Reeb US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
 1967 Geraldine Farrar soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies 
            at 85
 1969 John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris] author (Day of the Triffids, 
            Chrysalids), dies at 65
 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
 1971 Philo T Farnsworth US TV pioneer, dies at 64
 1971 Roy Glenn dies in Los Angeles at 56
 1971 Whitney M Young Jr leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies 
            at 49
 1972 Fredric [William] Brown sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies 
            at 65
 1973 Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda writer
 1975 Philip Bezanson composer, dies at 59
 1975 Sammy Spear orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
 1975 Walter Kinsella actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 
            74
 1979 Victor Kilian actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
 1982 Edmund Cooper British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 
            55
 1984 Nakagawa Soen Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery 
            at 76
 1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
 1988 Pham Hung premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
 1989 Johan Fleerackers Flemish linguist, dies at 57
 1992 David Carroll actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism 
            at 41
 1992 Heinz Kühn Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), 
            dies at 80
 1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
 1992 Richard Brooks director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies 
            at 79
 1993 Dino Bravo wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
 1993 Edgar Nelson Barclift dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
 1993 Manuel da Fonseca Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
 1994 Jacques Doucet French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
 1995 Carel Birnie found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 
            69
 1995 Ernest Kabushemeye Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
 1995 Frank Fidler artist, dies at 84
 1996 Barry Appleby cartoonist, dies at 86
 1996 Charles William Oatley electrical engineer, dies at 92
 1996 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson public servant, dies at 70
 1996 John Henry Pyle Pafford librarian, dies at 96
 1996 Vince Edwards actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67
 
 
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