| 26th 
            May, on this day  451 The Battle 
            of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes 
            place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom 
            to openly practice Christianity961 German King Otto II crowned
 1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, kills 30,000.
 1328 William 
            of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
 1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers
 1538 Genève throws out John 
            Calvin
 1596 England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against 
            Spain
 1637 1st battle 
            of Pequot at New Haven, CT kills 500 Indians
 1647 Alse 
            Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American 
            colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
 1670 In Dover, Charles II of Great Britain and King Louis XIV of France 
            sign the Secret 
            Treaty of Dover.
 1733 John Kay, assistant to Richard Arkwright, patents the Flying 
            Shuttle to operate on Arkwright's spinning frame
 1736 Battle 
            of Ackia (Louisiana), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat the 
            French
 1770 The Orlov 
            Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the 
            Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
 1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
 1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
 1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
 1798 Income Tax is introduced into Britain - a 10 per cent tax on 
            all incomes over £200 a year
 1805 Lewis and Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
 1805 Napoleon 
            is crowned king of Italy
 1824 Brazil is recognized by US
 1828 Mysterious feral child Kaspar 
            Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
 1830 The 
            Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed 
            into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
 1857 Dred 
            Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
 1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy
 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with 
            South
 1861 Union blockades New Orleans, LA and Mobile, AL
 1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, VA
 1864 Territory of Montana is formed
 1865 Confederate General Edmund 
            Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, 
            is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, 
            Texas.
 1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
 1868 In the last public execution in England, Irish terrorist Michael 
            Barrett is hanged outside Newgate Prison for causing an explosion 
            in London which left 13 dead
 1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
 1879 Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty 
            of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
 1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state
 1889 Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
 1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas 
            II, crowned
 1896 Charles 
            Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow 
            Jones Industrial Average.
 1896 James 
            Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
 1904 Russo-Japanese War: In Manchuria, Japanese forces cut off the 
            garrison of Port Arthur from other Russian land forces in the Battle 
            of Nanshan
 1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
 1906 Opening of the rebuilt Vauxhall Bridge over the River Thames 
            in London
 1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms
 1908 At Masjed 
            Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike 
            in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly 
            acquired by the United Kingdom.
 1913 Emily Duncan becomes Britain's first woman magistrate
 1913 In US Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
 1917 A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 
            persons and injuring 689. It was the world's longest-lasting tornado, 
            lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death 
            and destruction along its path.
 1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from 
            Russia
 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
 1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
 1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
 1924 German Government of Marx resigns
 1924 US President Calvin Coolidge introduces strict immigration laws 
            - including a total ban on any further Japanese immigrants
 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
 1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile
 1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
 1936 In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy 
            Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time 
            he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken 
            for 10 hours.
 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
 1938 House 
            Committee on Un-American Activities begins work
 1940 Operation 
            Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia
 1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
 1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
 1942 Tank battle 
            at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
 1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, 
            Liberia)
 1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
 1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
 1944 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste 
            Mère Eglise
 1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
 1946 Klement 
            Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
 1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
 1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress" premieres in 
            London
 1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
 1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, 
            killing 103
 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
 1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
 1963 Organization of African Unity forms
 1965 Revised international Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes 
            effect
 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
 1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 
            Montréal)
 1970 The Soviet Tupolev 
            Tu-144 makes its 1st appearance and becomes the first commercial 
            transport to exceed Mach 2.
 1972 Willandra 
            National Park is established in Australia.
 1972 Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT 
            accord
 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
 1973 Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes number 
            1
 1974 During a David 
            Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
 1977 George 
            Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
 1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
 1981 The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo 
            Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over 
            membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 
            (Propaganda Due).
 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
 1981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland 
            war
 1983 Strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggers a tsunami 
            that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many missing people 
            and thousands of buildings
 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1984 Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die
 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
 1986 The European Community adopts the European 
            flag.
 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
 1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without 
            bail
 1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1990 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's 
            Rebublic of China
 1991 Zviad 
            Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President 
            of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
 1991 Lauda 
            Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
 1992 Charles 
            Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. was kidnapped at gunpoint 
            from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 
            and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The 
            FBI rescues him four days later.
 1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa 
            Marie Presley (26)
 1998 Date for Paula 
            Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton
 1998 In Britain, ex soldiers and former Japanese POWs turn back on 
            Emperor Akihito during his state visit
 1999 Manchester United become the first British club to win the European 
            Cup for 15 yeras, beating Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final in Barcelona
 2002 The Mars 
            Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
 2002 Álvaro 
            Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
 2004 The New 
            York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming 
            that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during 
            the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that 
            Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
 2004 The U.S. Army veteran Terry 
            Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping 
            carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
 2006 The 2006 
            Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 26th May : 1478 Clement VII 
            [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34) 1566 Mohammed III sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)
 1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck composer
 1667 Abraham De Moivre French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)
 1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English essayist, feminist, eccentric
 1700 Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf German evangelist
 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin writer/mother of Mary Shelley
 1771 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German saloon owner/author
 1773 Hans Georg Nageli composer
 1782 Joseph Drechsler composer
 1788 ? Clark England, baby of Mary Clark born without a brain
 1799 Alexander S Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
 1799 August Kopisch German writer (Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln)
 1806 Henry Knox Thatcher Commander (Union Navy), died in 1880
 1822 E de Goncourt writer
 1825 Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza composer
 1835 Edward Porter Alexander Brigadier General of artillery (Confederate 
            Army)
 1846 Arthur Coquard composer
 1850 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman Dutch actress (Stupid force)
 1853 Monroe A Althouse composer
 1856 George Templeton Strong composer
 1859 Alfred Edward Housman Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
 1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela Finnish painter/graphic artist/illustrator
 1866 John Eigenhuis writer (Tough Workers)
 1867 Mary queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
 1871 Camille Huysmans Belgian premier (1946-47)
 1873 Cornelis G N de Vooys translator/founder (New Taalgids)
 1874 Henry Farman French aviation pioneer (double decker)
 1876 Jack Root boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
 1877 Isadora Duncan San Fransisco CA, free form/interpretative dancer
 1877 Jean Schlumberger French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
 1877 Sadao Araki Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
 1884 Charles Winninger Athens WI, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
 1886 Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson] jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, 
            Swanee)
 1890 Kurt Edzard German sculptor (nudes/portraits)
 1893 Norma Talmadge Jersey City NJ, actress (Sign on the Door, Camille)
 1893 Sir Eugene Goossens London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
 1895 Dorothea Lange US documentary photographer
 1895 Paul Lukas Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)
 1898 Ernst Bacon composer
 1898 Gerard Bertouille composer
 1899 Otto E Neugebauer Austrian/US math historian
 1899 Pieter Menten Dutch war criminal
 19-- Robyn Bernard singer/actress (Terry-General Hospital)
 1903 Estes Kefauver (Senator-D-TN)
 1905 Hans Holewa composer
 1907 Carleton Young New York NY, actor (Reefer Madness, Pride of the 
            Bowery)
 1907 John "Duke" Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] Winterset 
            IA, actor (True Grit)
 1908 Malando [Arie Maasland] composer/orchestra leader (Olé 
            Guapa)
 1908 Robert Morley Semley Wiltshire England, actor (High Road to China, 
            African Queen)
 1909 Matt Busby Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United)
 1909 Richard Maibaum New York NY, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
 1910 Adolfo Lopez Mateos President of México
 1910 Laurence S Rockefeller New York NY, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
 1911 Ben Alexander Goldfield NV, actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles 
            Kicks Off)
 1912 János Kádár premier Hungary (1956-58)
 1913 Fred Bertrand Belgian politician
 1913 Peter Cushing Kenley Surrey England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles, 
            Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who)
 1913 Robert Shaw town planner
 1914 Archie Duncan Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
 1919 Jay Silverheels actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger)
 1919 Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh journalist
 1920 Jack Cheetham cricketer (South African batsman, Test captain 
            early 50's)
 1920 Peggy Lee [Norma Egstrom] Jamestown ND, singer (Fever, Why Don't 
            You Do Right)
 1921 Frank Mooney cricketer (dependable wicket-keeper for New Zealand 
            in 13 Tests)
 1923 Horst Tapper German director/actor (Derrick)
 1923 James Arness Minneapolis MN, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
 1923 Oren Lee Staley 1st president of National Farmers Organization 
            (1955-79)
 1923 Roy Dotrice Guernsey Channel Island, actor (The Wizard)
 1924 Cooper Evans (Representative-R-IA, 1981-87)
 1924 Victor Herbert Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
 1925 Alec McCowen Turnbridge Wells Kent England, actor (Never Say 
            Never Again, Frenzy, Hanover Street, Stevie)
 1926 Maria de Lourdes Martins composer
 1926 Miles Davis Alton IL, jazz trumpeter/pioneered cool jazz (Porgy 
            & Bess)
 1927 Jacques Bergerac Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques 
            France, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in the Sun)
 1929 Hugo Raes Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
 1934 Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar South African attorney/UDF-leader
 1937 Yehuda Yannay composer
 1938 Jackie Liebesit rocker (Can)
 1938 Teresa Stratas [Anastasia Stratakis] Toronto Ontario Canada, 
            soprano (Salome)
 1938 William Elden Bolcom Seattle WA, composer (Oracles)
 1939 Brent Musburger sportscaster (CBS-TV)
 1939 Gerald Ronson English multi-millionaire
 1941 Imants Kalnins composer
 1942 Levon Helm drummer/singer (Band)
 1942 Ray Ennis England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
 1943 Erica G Terpstra Olympic swimmer/Dutch MP (VVD)
 1944 Verden "Phally" Allen keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
 1945 Garry Peterson rocker (Guess Who)
 1947 Glenn Turner cricketer (masterful New Zealand opening batsman)
 1947 Piers Gray critic/writer
 1947 Sherry Bain Redlands CA, actress (Pipe Dreams)
 1948 Geoff Greenidge cricketer (no relation to Gordon, West Indies 
            opener 1972-74)
 1948 Stevie [Stephanie Lynn] Nicks Phoenix AZ, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella 
            Donna)
 1949 Dan Pastorini NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders)
 1949 Dayle Haddon Montréal Québec Canada, actress (Bedroom 
            Eyes)
 1949 Hank Williams Jr Shreveport LA, country singer (All My Rowdy 
            Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight, There's A Tear In My Beer)
 1949 Pam Grier Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
 1949 Philip Michael Thomas Columbus OH, actor (Miami Vice)
 1950 ? 1st whooping crane hatched in captivity
 1951 Muhammed Ahmad Faris Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3)
 1951 Sally Kristen Ride Los Angeles CA, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, 
            STS 41G)
 1955 Candace L Collins Dupo IL, playmate (December 1979)
 1956 Barbara Stock Downers Grove IL, actress (Susan-Spenser For Hire)
 1956 Joe Penny actor (Jake & the Fatman)
 1957 Candace L Collins Dupo IL, playmate (December 1979)
 1957 Margaret Colin actress (Now and Again, Independence Day, Three 
            Men & a Baby)
 1959 Beverly Lee rocker
 1959 Brian Peaker London Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
 1959 Nancy White-Brophy Montague Prince Edward Island, LPGA golfer 
            (1994 McCall's-25th)
 1959 Wayne Hussey rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
 1959 Wayne Hussey rocker (The Mission-Lover for Life)
 1961 Stephen Robert Pate Ventura CA, PGA golfer (1987 Southwest Classic)
 1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait Syracuse NY, comedian (Police Academy, Scrooged)
 1962 Colin Vearncombe rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
 1962 Genie Francis Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
 1963 Charles Van Eman Pittsburgh PA, actor (Charlie-All My Children, 
            Dynasty II)
 1963 Eddie Martin Jr jockey
 1964 Kevin Kennedy baseball manager (Texas Rangers)
 1964 Lenny Kravitz singer/guitar (911 is a Joke, Are You Gonna Go 
            My Way?)
 1965 Greg Lloyd NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
 1965 Jacqueline Mary Nelson Upper Hutt New Zealand, points race cyclist 
            (Olympics-96)
 1966 Anthony Edwards NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
 1966 Billy Downes Camden NJ, Nike golfer (1994 New England Classic)
 1966 Grant Bradburn cricketer (son of Wynne New Zealand off-spinner 
            1990- )
 1966 Zola Budd Pieterse Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988)
 1966 Zola Budd Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988)
 1967 Igor Zemlyanoy hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
 1967 Jean Bartholomew Queens NY, LPGA golfer (1989 Duke University 
            Champion)
 1968 Frederik Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
 1968 Rachael Sporn Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
 1970 Sam Mack NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets, Vancouver Grizzlies)
 1970 Sebastian Barrie NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
 1971 Darwin Ireland NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
 1971 Lewis Capes WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
 1971 Steven Rice Kitchener, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
 1975 Christopher Lindsey Donaldson Dunedin New Zealand, 100 meter/200 
            meter runner (Olympics-96)
 1975 Travis Lee San Diego CA, baseball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
 1976 Benji Gregory Encino CA, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
 1976 Markus Wieland hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
 1976 Scott Humphries Greely CO, tennis star (1995 doubles Binghampton)
 1990 Zenouska Mowatt granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
 1996 Austin Michael Luciano actor (Dante Carlino-Another World)
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            on May 26th:
 0604 605? Augustinus van Canterbury bishop/apostle of England, dies
 0735 Beda Venerabilis English speaking church historian, dies at about 
            62
 1421 Mohammed I sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
 1512 Bajezid II Governor of Amasja/8th Sultan of Turkey, dies
 1595 Philippus Nerius [Filippo Neri] Italian merchant/saint, dies 
            at 79
 1609 Cornelis Claesz mapmaker, buried
 1685 Karel monarch of Palts, dies
 1703 Samuel Pepys English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 
            70
 1753 Willem Maurits Earl of Nassau/Governor of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies
 1818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly Russian fieldmarshal/War Minister, 
            dies
 1831 Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
 1832 François-Louis Perne composer, dies at 59
 1864 Ch Sealsfield writer, dies at 71
 1868 Michael Barrett Irish nationalist, last British public execution
 1871 Aime Maillart composer, dies at 54
 1873 August Conradi composer, dies at 51
 1876 Frantisek Palacky Czechoslovakia, historian/MP, dies at 77
 1880 John Curwen composer, dies at 63
 1883 Abd el-Kader Algerian sultan/religious ruler, dies at about 74
 1891 Frederick Bowen Jewson composer, dies at 67
 1905 Alphonse de Rothschild French banker, dies
 1908 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies 
            at 69
 1912 Jan Blockx Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 
            61
 1924 Johann Heinrich Beck composer, dies at 67
 1924 Victor Herbert Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
 1926 S V Petlura Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard
 1933 Jimmie Rodgers country singer, dies at 35
 1939 Charles H Mayo US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74
 1939 Cornelis J Cutters supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
 1943 Edsel Ford owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
 1944 C M Francois cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), 
            dies
 1946 Friedrich A H von Waldeck monarch of Waldeck, dies
 1950 Antonina Neshdanova Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
 1951 Lincoln Ellsworth Arctic explorer, dies at 71
 1952 Dámaso Alonso Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), 
            dies at 55
 1954 Franz Pfemfert writer, dies at 74
 1956 Al Simmons Outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting average of .334, 
            dies at 54
 1958 Francis Carco(pino) French author/critic (L'homme traqué), 
            dies at 71
 1959 Ed Walsh baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
 1959 Joe Kelly TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
 1963 Sharon Lynn actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53
 1966 Don Castle actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47
 1966 Neal Dodd actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86
 1967 Antoon Spinoy Belgian politician, dies at 60
 1967 George E Stone actor (5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64
 1968 William E "Little Willie" John US R&B-singer (Fever), 
            dies at 30)
 1969 Kathryn Minner entertainer, dies of heart attack at 77
 1971 John Longden actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
 1973 Jacques Lipchitz US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
 1974 Kitty Gordon entertainer, dies at 96
 1976 Martin Heidegger German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86
 1977 Jim Boles actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 
            63
 1977 William Powell rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
 1979 George Brent actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St), dies at 
            75
 1991 Tom Cassidy anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41
 1991 Tom Eyen playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
 1992 Danny Biasone basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 
            83
 1993 Carleton Morse radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91
 1993 Cor de Great pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 
            78
 1993 Marvin Young producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90
 1994 George Wildman Ball under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 
            84
 1994 Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock US free-jazz Guitarist, 
            dies at 53
 1995 Isadore "Friz" Freling cartoon director (Sylvester), 
            dies at 88
 1995 Ron Weatherburn jazz pianist, dies at 61
 1995 Severn Darden comedian (Second City), dies at 65
 1996 Halka Grossman resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76
 1996 Matima Kinuani Mpiosso musician, dies at 45
 1997 Manfred Von Ardenne German scientific pioneer, dies at 90
 
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