2nd
December, on this day
1409 The University
of Leipzig opens
1620 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing
in Amsterdam
1682 English Earl
of Shaftesbury's flight to Amsterdam
1697 St
Paul's Cathedral opens in London
1755 The second Eddystone
Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
1763 Touro shul of Newport, RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
1777 British General
Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1790 Austrian army occupies Brussels
1802 English sell Suriname
to Dutch
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned 1st emperor of France in Paris by
Pope Pius VII
1805 Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Battle
of Austerlitz
1812 James
Madison re-elected President of US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President
1813 Prince
Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
1816 Spa
Fields Riots in England: a large crowd, gathered to demand political
reform, decides to march on London
1816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1818 Siege
of Diriyah :
Ibrahim Pasha captured and destroyed
Diriyah ending the First
Saudi State
1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823 In the United States, the 'Monroe
Doctrine', announced by US President James Monroe, warns all European
powers against interfering in the politics of the American Republics-including
any further colonisation of land on the American continent. Any breach
would be considered a threat to US peace and security
1825 Battle
of Prome ends : Campbell defeats Burmese, led by Maha Nenyo, who
is killed
1840 Gaetano
Donizetti's opera "La Favorita" premieres in Paris
1840 William
H Harrison elected President of US, John Tyler Vice-President
1845 Manifest
Destiny : US President James
K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively
expand into the West.
1848 Franz
Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
1851 Newly-elected French President Charles
Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second
Republic
1852 2nd French empire established;
Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1859 American anti-slavery campaigner John
Brown is hanged for killing five pro-slavery men and leading an
attack on the US arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October
1863 Battle
of Mine Run ends : Meade bombards Lee's Confederates but then
withdraws.
1864 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1867
Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US at Tremont
Theatre, Boston
1868 1st British government of Disraeli
resigns
1877 Camille
Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila" premieres
in Weimar
1883 Johannes
Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1885 The opera "Regina di Saba" is produced (Vienna)
1887 French President
Jules Grévy (80) resigns
1896 Gerhart
Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke" premieres in Berlin
1899 US and Germany agree to divide Samoa
between them
1899 Philippine-American
War : The
Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae",
is fought.
1900 South African President Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
1901
King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
1904 Members of the British Parliament representing Ulster, form an
organisation that becomes the Ulster
Unionist Council
1907 Tommy
Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
1907 English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1908 Pu
Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1913 Archdiocese
of Managua created
1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade, Serbia
1917 Han
Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1920 Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian
War, the Turkish dictated peace treaty is concluded -Treaty
of Alexandropol
1924 British-German trade agreement signed
1927 1st
Model A Fords sold, for $385
1929 1st skull of Peking
man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1930 Great
Depression : US President Herbert
Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150
million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the
economy.
1932 "Adventures
of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
1933 Fred
Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady" is released
1934 5.08-m (200") Mount Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
1939 New York's La
Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands,
1 minute after midnight
1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941 Yamamoto
sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
1942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico
Fermi - University of Chicago)
1943 1st RSHA
transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau
camp
1943 A Luftwaffe
bombing raid on the harbour of Bari,
Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American
Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of WWI-era mustard
gas.
1944 General
De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
1944 US
95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1947 Jerusalem
Riots of 1947 : Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the
approval of the 1947
UN Partition Plan
1950 United Nations agree to hand over Eritrea
to Ethiopia
1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, CO)
1954 The anti-Communist witchhunt comes to an end in America when
its main instigator, Senator Joseph
McCarthy, is condemned for conduct unbecoming a US Senator"
1954 The Sino-American
Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic
of China, is signed in Washington, DC.
1956 Fidel Castro lands with yacht "Granma"
on coast of Cuba. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of
the 26th
of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban
Revolution
1957 1st US full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated,
Shippingport PA
1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
1959 Malpasset
dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1961
Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism
1961 Wind Bell, journal of
San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
1962 After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F.
Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic
public comment on the war's progress.
1965 The hit musical 'Hello
Dolly' opens at Drury Lane in London
1966 In Britain, the symbol of the Swinging
Sixties, the Mini
skirt is banned from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster
1968 President Nixon names Henry
Kissinger security advisor
1969 Boeing 747 jumbo
jet 1st public preview (Seattle WA to New York NY)
1970 Environmental
Protection Agency begins (Director: William
Ruckelshaus)
1970 Tippett's
Opera "Knot
Garden" premieres in London
1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form
the United
Arab Emirates
1971 Soviet Mars
3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Zayid
bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE
1972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
1972 Gough
Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister
of Australia for 23 years.
1974 Soyuz
16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1975 Laos falls to communist forces; King
Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People's Democratic Republic proclaimed
1975
7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1976 Fidel
Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo
Dorticós Torrado
1977 The first World
Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia
and West Indies
1978 Chanting "Allah is great", anti-Shah protesters poured
through Tehran
1978 Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand's "You
Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits number 1
1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns Ita
Ford, Maura
Clarke, Jean
Donovan, and Dorothy
Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
1981 Spanish government requests membership in NATO
1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University
of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the
Jarvic-7 heart
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1985 Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
1985 Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery
of Edwin Drood" premieres at Imperial Theater NYC for 608
performances
1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Benazir
Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the
first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1988 "Naked
Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva,
Britain abstains
1989 Vishwanath
Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
1990 West German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl wins the first all-German election since 1933 following the
collapse of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany
1991 Muslim Shites release American held hostage in Lebanon (Joseph
Cicippio)
1993 Colombian drugs baron, Pablo
Escobar, the so-called King of Cocaine, is shot dead in a gun
battle with police
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
1993 NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair
the Hubble
Space Telescope
1994 Achille
Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
1994
Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
1994 Jury finds Heidi
Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1997 68 die in
a coal mine accident at Zyryanouskaya, Novokuznetsk,
Kuzbass Siberia, Russia
1998 In Britain, Conservative leader William
Hague sacks his leader in the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne,
for going behind his back to negotiate a deal with the Labour Government
over the scrapping of Hereditary Peers
1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland
to the Northern
Ireland Executive
2001
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2005 Van
Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
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Birthdates which
occurred on December 2nd:
1578 Agostino Agazzari
composer
1678 Nicolaas S Cruquius Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer)
1728 Ferdinando Galiani Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat
1760 Joseph Graetz composer
1777 Henry Doeff colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
1802 Melancthon Smith Wade Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died
in 1868
1813 Jacob Rosenhaim composer
1821 Rufus Barringer Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in
1895
1825 Pedro II van Alcantara Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
1837 Charles Garrison Harker Brigadier-General (Union volunteers),
died in 1864
1846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier
1856 Robert Kajanus composer
1859 Georges Seurat France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
1860 C T Studd cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England)
1863 Gustav Wohlgemuth composer
1866 Henry Thacker Burleigh Erie PA, black composer (Springarn Medal)
1868 Francis Jammes French poet/writer (Jammisme)
1869 Jonas Cohn German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
1870 Francis Louis Casadesus French violinist/composer/conductor
1875 Frank Reicher Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
1884 Ruth Draper US, lecture artist [or 1989]
1885 George Minot US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
1885 Níkos Kazantazakís Greece, writer (Zorba, Last
Temptation of Christ)
1892 Leo Ornstein composer
1893 William Gaxton San Francisco CA, actor (Destry, Convoy)
1893 Julius Bissier German painter
1893 Louis Freeman band leader
1894 Warren William [Krech] Aitkin MN, actor (Cæsar-Cleopatra,
Morgan-Go West Young Man)
1895 Klaas Voskuil journalist
1896 Georgi K Zjukov marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad
1897 Rewi Alley New Zealand, writer (Americans in China)
1899 John Barbirolli English conductor (New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
1901 Staf Gustaf Frans Nees Flemish organist/composer (Simon Peter)
1902 Horace A Hildreth (Governor-ME, 1945-49)
1902 Miroslav Ponc composer
1904 Donald Woods Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
1905 Osvaldo Pugliese musician/composer
1906 Peter Carl Goldmark developed color TV & LP records
1906 Eric Dalton cricketer (2 centuries in 15 Tests for South Africa
1929-39)
1908 Robert F Simon Mansfield OH, actor (Custer, MASH, Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance)
1908 Rufe Davis Oklahoma, actor (Cocoanut Grove, Trail Blazers, Gangs
of Sonora)
1910 Robert Paige Indianapolis IN, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
1914 Bill Erwin Honey Grove TX, actor (Glenn-Struck by Lightning)
1914 Eddie Sauter Brooklyn NY, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat
Night Revue)
1914 Ray Walston Laurel MS, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian,
Damn Yankees)
1915 Adolph Green songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
1915 Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher
1915 Nico Richter composer
1916 John Bentley Sparkhill Birmingham England, actor (The Chair,
Hammer the Toff)
1917 Ezra Stone US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
1918 Milton Delugg Los Angeles CA, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1919 Michael Geoffrey Corcos medical researcher
1920 Robert Moevs composer
1922 Leo V Gordon New York NY, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
1923 Maria M Callas New York NY, soprano (Carmen, Mademoiselle Award-1953)
1923 Meshulam Riklis chief executive-McCrory Corporation, (Mr. Pia
Zadora)
1924 Alexander Haig Jr Bala-Cynwyd PA, (R) US Secretary of State (1981-82)/general
1924 Jonathan Frid actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows)
1925 Julie Harris Grosse Pt MI, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
1929 Harvey Phillips Aurora MO, tubist (NYC Ballet Orchestra)
1929 Lowell North Springfield MA, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1968)
1929 Jaap Boersma Dutch Minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
1931 Edwin Meese III prude, US Attorney General (1985-88)
1935 Jurg Wyttenbach composer
1936 Peter Michael Braun composer
1937 Brian Lumley England, author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech, Beneath
the Moors)
1938 Michael Levin Minneapolis MN, actor (Ryan's Hope)
1940 Willie Brown NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
1940 Gerry Cheevers NHL goalie (Bruin, longest undefeated streak-32
games)
1941 Paul C W Chu China, physicist, superconductivity researcher
1941 Tom McGuiness rocker (McGuiness-Flint)
1942 Bob E Smith Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1993 Yanase Cup)
1942 Ted Bluechel San Pedro CA, rock vocalist/drummer (Association)
1943 David Munden rocker
1944 Cathy Lee Crosby Los Angeles CA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
1944 Botho Strauss writer
1944 Roger Omond journalist
1945 Alan "Froggy" Thomson cricketer (Australian quickie
1970-71)
1946 Gianni Versace fashion designer (Versace)
1947 Dhiraj Parsana cricket pace bowler (India vs West Indies 1978-79)
1947 Michael Green English TV/video producer
1950 Merrill Ashley St Paul MN, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
1952 Keith Szarabajka Oak Park IL, actor (Nightlife)
1952 Michael McDonald St Louis MO, rock keyboardist/vocals (Doobie
Brothers)
1953 Meg Griffin DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
1953 Myung-Whan Chung Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
1953 Jay Dean Haas St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1978 Andy Williams-San
Diego)
1954 Dan Butler actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)
1954 Danielle Alexander Fort Worth TX, country music pianist
1954 Huub Stapel Dutch actor (Amsterdamned, Attic: Hiding of Anne
Frank)
1954 Stone Phillips news host (NBC Dateline)
1955 Dennis Christopher Philadelphia PA, actor (Breaking Away, California
Dreaming)
1956 Steven Bauer Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
1958 Vladimir Parfenovich USSR, 500 meter kayak (Olympics-gold-1980)
1959 Greg Barton kayak (Olympics-2 gold-88)
1959 Patty Jordan Buffalo NY, LPGA golfer (1988 Mitsubishi Motors
Ocean)
1960 Rick Savage bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1962 Tracy Austin tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
1964 Brian Habib NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 Chip Hale Santa Clara CA, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1964 Yolanda Henry Houston TX, high jumper
1965 Karrie Mitchell Arvada CO, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
1966 Anita Jokiel Poland, gymnast (Olympics-1980)
1966 Clive Eksteen cricketer (South African slow left-armer 1993)
1966 Kelly Buchberger Langenburg, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1966 Rob Sullivan Chicago IL, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Tri-City
Pro-Am)
1966 Zeke Jones Yipsilanti MI, 114½ lbs freestyle wrestler
(Olympics-96)
1967 Sharry Konopski Longview WA, playmate (August, 1987)
1967 Naeem Akhtar Rawalpindi cricket medium-pacer (10-28 vs Peshawar
1995)
1968 Reneé Tenison Caldwell ID, playmate of the year (November
1989)
1968 Darryl Kile Garden Grove CA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 Elna Reinach Pretoria South Africa, tennis star
1968 Jiri Dopita Sumperk Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakia
Olympics-gold-1998)
1968 Mark Harding Bath England, keeper of Internet biographies
1968 Rena Sofer actress (Eve-Melrose Place, Rocky-Loving, Lois Cerullo-General
Hospital)
1969 Lewis Bush NFL outside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1969 O J McDuffie NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 Paul Francis Stankowski Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 Rene Pucher Presov Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1971 Jessie Hicks WNBA forward/center (Utah Starzz)
1971 Rachel McQuillan Merewether New South Wales Australia, tennis
star (1989 Futures ITA)
1971 Roy van de Hill soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 Alan Henderson NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 Chris Burns CFL tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 James Willis linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Sunjith Somasunder cricketer (Karnataka & India ODI opening
bat 1996)
1972 Zack Crockett NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 Kevin Feighery NFL/WLAF punter (New York Giants, Panthers, Galaxy)
1973 Monica Seles Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open-1992,
French Open-1990)
1975 Brett Lindros London, NHL right wing (New York Islanders)
1975 Mark Kotsay Whittier CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Jennifer Robinson Barrie Ontario, (1996 Canadian Champion)
1981 Britney Jean Spears Kentwood, LA, singer (Baby One More Time,
You Drive Me Crazy, Oops I Did It Again)
1988 Edward EMG baron Downpatrick grandson of English prince Edward
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Deaths which occurred on December 2nd:
0537 Sylvester Italian Pope (536-37), dies
1463 Albrecht VI archduke of Habsburg, dies
1515 Gonzalo de Córdoba Spanish general/strategist/viceroy
of Naples, dies
1592 Alexander Farnese land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies
at 46
1719 Pasquier Quesnel French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1723 Philip French duke of Orléans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723),
dies
1763 Carl August Thielo composer, dies at 56
1774 Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist, dies
at 54
1814 Marquis de Sade writer, dies at 74
1828 Simon Paap Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at 56
1845 Johannes Simon Mayr composer, dies at 82
1859 John Brown US abolitionist, hanged in Charles Town WV at 59
1864 Archibald Gracie Jr Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
at 31
1880 Josephine Lang composer, dies at 65
1888 Franz Xaver Witt composer, dies at 54
1888 Mehmed N Kemal Bey Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at
47
1903 Victor Roger composer, dies at 50
1915 Jan Malat composer, dies at 72
1916 Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, dies at 69
1918 Margit Kaffka writer, dies at 38
1919 Henry Clay Frick built largest coke & steel operation, dies
at 69
1923 Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer, dies at 72
1925 Julio Garreta composer, dies at 50
1931 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy French count/composer, dies
at 80
1933 Josef Gruber composer, dies at 78
1935 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber
1943 Nordahl Grieg writer, dies
1944 Filippo T Marinetti Italian writer (father of futurism), dies
at 67
1944 JW Ummels Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
1950 Dino Lipatti composer, dies at 33
1953 Ernest Hayes cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England),
dies
1953 Francis Picabia French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1957 Harrison Ford silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1963 Sabu Sabu actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at
39
1964 Roger Bissière French painter, dies at 76
1965 The Rajkumar of Vizianagram cricketer (Indian Test captain 1936),
dies
1966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1967 Cardinal Francis Spellman archbishop of New York, dies at 78
1969 Kliment J Voroshilov President of USSR (1953-60), dies
1970 Dora Paulen German/Dutch cabaretière, dies at about 72
1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen German Luftwaffe general, dies
1972 José Limón Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies
at 64
1974 Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte composer, dies at 72
1976 William Tannen actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp, Jailhouse
Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
1976 Danny Murtaugh baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at
59
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer, dies at 72
1981 Hershy Kay composer, dies at 62
1981 Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot Governor of Dutch Antilles (1962-70),
dies at 79
1981 Wallace K[irkman] Harrison US architect (UN), dies at 86
1982 Marty Feldman comedic actor (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
of a heart attack in México
1982 David Blue rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at
41
1983 Atholl Mckinnon cricketer (South African lefty spinner in 8 Tests),
dies
1983 Fifi D'Orsay "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies
cancer at 79
1985 Alex Courtney actor (Sword of Justice), dies
1985 Philip Larkin [hermit of Hull] English poet, dies at 63
1986 Desi Arnaz actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies of lung cancer
at 69
1986 Lee Dorsey R&B singer, dies at 59
1990 Aaron Copland composer (Fanfare for the Common Man), dies at
90
1990 Robert Cummings actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure
at 82
1992 Gary Mascaro choreographer, dies at 43
1992 Loek Elfferich Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam),
die
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria Colombian drug baron, shot to death at
44
1994 Donald John Urquhart librarian, dies at 85
1994 James Norman Dalrymple Anderson lawyer, dies at 86
1995 [William] Robertson Davies novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
1995 Francis Joseph Quinn academic, dies at 90
1995 Roxie Roker actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons)/mother of Lenny
Kravitz, dies of breast cancer at 66
1995 Stanley Devon photographer, dies at 88
1996 Penelope Jessel politcal activist, dies at 76
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