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1513
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Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
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1599
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Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
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1625
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Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
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1668
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English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
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1708
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English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
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1709
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Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
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1713
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Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
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1721
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France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
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1758
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Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
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1790
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The shoelace invented
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1794
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US Navy forms
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1802
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Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
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1808
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Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schpfung" premieres in Vienna
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1814
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Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
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1836
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1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
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1841
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1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
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1848
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John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
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1849
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Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
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1855
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Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
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1860
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M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
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1861
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Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
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1863
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President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
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1865
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Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
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1866
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Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
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1866
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Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
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1871
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1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
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1879
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Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
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1884
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1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
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1912
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1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
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1914
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1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
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1920
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Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
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1920
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Hermann Mller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
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1924
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Canada recognizes USSR
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1924
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New French govt of Poincar begins
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1928
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KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
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1928
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US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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1928
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US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
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1929
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US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
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1929
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US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
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1930
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1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
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1931
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Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
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1931
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John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
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1932
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De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
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1933
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Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
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1933
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Japan leaves League of Nations
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1933
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Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
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1936
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WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
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1937
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Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
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1939
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1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
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1940
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Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
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1941
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Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
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1941
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Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
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1941
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Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
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1942
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-28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
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1942
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Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1« hour forward
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1942
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Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
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1943
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Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
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1943
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Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
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1943
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US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
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1944
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1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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1944
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2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
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1944
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40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
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1944
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Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
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1945
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7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Okla State beats NYU 49-44
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1945
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British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
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1945
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DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
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1945
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Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
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1945
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Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
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1945
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Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
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1945
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US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
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1950
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Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
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1950
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Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
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1950
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WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1951
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13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
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1951
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Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
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1952
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Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
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1952
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Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
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1953
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21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
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1955
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9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
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1955
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Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
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1955
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WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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1956
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French commandos land in Algeria
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1956
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US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
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1957
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29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
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1958
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CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
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1958
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Havana Hilton opens
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1958
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Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
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1960
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Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
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1961
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Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns
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1961
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Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
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1962
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Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
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1962
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Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
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1962
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Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
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1964
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1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
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1964
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Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
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1964
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Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
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1964
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UN troops arrive on Cyprus
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1966
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Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
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1966
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Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
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1968
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Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
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1968
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Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
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1969
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Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
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1969
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Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
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1970
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Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
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1970
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USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1971
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33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
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1972
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Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky
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1972
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Venera 8 launched to Venus
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1973
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45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support o
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1973
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Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
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1973
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Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
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1976
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Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
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1976
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Washington DC underground Metro opens
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1977
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583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
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1977
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Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
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1978
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40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
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1978
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Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs
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1978
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Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
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1979
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Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
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1980
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"Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
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1980
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"Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
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1980
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Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
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1980
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Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
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1981
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John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
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1982
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"Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs
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1982
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Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
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1982
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Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
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1983
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13th Easter Seal Telethon
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1983
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Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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1983
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Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
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1984
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Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
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1985
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Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1986
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Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
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1987
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President Habr's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
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1988
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Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
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1988
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Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
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1988
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Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
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1988
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Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
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1988
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Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
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1988
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Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
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1989
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1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
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1989
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Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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1990
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Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
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1990
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NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
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1991
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NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
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1991
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New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
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1991
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Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
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1992
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Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
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1994
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23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
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1994
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Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
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1994
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Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
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1994
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Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
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1994
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Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
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1994
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Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
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1994
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Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
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1995
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67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
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1996
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"State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
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1997
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"Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
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1997
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39 cult memebers in Calif commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
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1997
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Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
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1998
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Soul Train Award
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2134
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32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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BIRTHS
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1416
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Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
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1554
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Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
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1665
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Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
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1702
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Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
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1710
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Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
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1746
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Augustin Ullinger, composer
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1746
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Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
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1757
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Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
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1760
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Ishmail Spicer, composer
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1760
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MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
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1765
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Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
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1772
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Giovanni Liverati, composer
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1780
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August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
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1785
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Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
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1797
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Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Mose, Chatterton)
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1809
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Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
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1810
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A Glabbrenner, writer
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1813
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Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
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1816
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George Elvey, composer
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1818
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Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
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1823
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Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
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1844
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Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
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1845
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Wilhelm Konrad Rntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
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1847
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Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
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1851
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Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy, Paris, comp (Symphonie Cvenole)
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1851
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Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
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1854
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Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Grgorien)
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1857
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Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
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1857
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Pearson, mathematician
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1858
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Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
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1859
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George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
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1863
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Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
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1867
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Edyth Walker, US singer
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1868
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Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
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1871
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Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
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1871
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Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
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1879
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Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
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1883
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Jan Kunc, composer
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1886
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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
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1889
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
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1891
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Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Arar t/Sd a nap)
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1892
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Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof, NY, composer
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1892
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Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
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1893
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Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
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1893
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Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
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1894
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William Harrigan, NYC
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1897
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... Hartree, mathematician
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1897
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Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
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1899
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Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
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1901
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Albert Henneberg, composer
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1901
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Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
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1901
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Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
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1901
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Wilhelm Conrad von Rntgen, physicist (Nobel)
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1902
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Mary Armour, artist
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1903
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Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
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1905
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... Kalm r, mathematician
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1907
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Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
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1908
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Jacques [Izak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
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1909
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Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
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1909
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Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
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1910
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Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
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1912
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James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
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1912
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Reuel Lahmer, composer
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1912
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Robert Watson Hughes, composer
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1913
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Godfrey Turner, composer
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1914
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Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
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1914
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Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
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1914
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Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
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1915
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Richard Sharp, civil servant
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1917
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Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
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1917
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Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
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1919
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Julian Amery, conservative minister
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1919
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Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
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1920
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Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
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1921
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Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
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1922
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Margaret Stacey, sociologist
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1923
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Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
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1923
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Shusaku Endo, writer
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1923
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Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
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1924
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Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
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1924
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Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
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1925
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Lord Plumb, MEP
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1925
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R P Cohan, choreographer
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1925
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Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
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1926
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Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
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1927
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Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
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1927
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Cecil Bdker, writer
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1927
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Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
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1927
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Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
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1928
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Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
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1930
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Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
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1930
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David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
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1930
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Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
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1931
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Burt Collins, trumpeter
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1931
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R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
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1931
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Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
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1932
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Wes Covington, baseball player (Phila Phillies)
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1933
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DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
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1933
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Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
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1933
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J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
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1934
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Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
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1934
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David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
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1935
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Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
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1935
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Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
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1936
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Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
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1936
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Malcolm Goldstein, composer
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1937
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Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
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1938
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A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
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1938
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Jock Slater, admiral
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1938
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P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Assn)
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1939
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Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
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1939
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Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
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1939
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Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
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1939
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Lord Lyell
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1939
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Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
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1940
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Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
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1940
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June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
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1941
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Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
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1941
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Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
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1942
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Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
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1942
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Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
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1943
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M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
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1945
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Briton Selby, NHLer
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1946
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Bill Sudakis, baseball player
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1946
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Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
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1946
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Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
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1947
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Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
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1947
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Dough Wilkerson, football
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1947
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Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
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1949
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Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
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1950
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Maria Ewing, opera singer
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1950
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Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
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1950
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Vic Harris, baseball
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1951
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Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
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1951
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Tony Banks, rocker
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1952
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Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
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1952
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Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
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1952
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Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
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1953
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Annemarie Moser-Prll, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1980)
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1953
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Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
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1955
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Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
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1955
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Patrick McCabe, novelist
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1956
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Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
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1956
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Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
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1957
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Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
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1957
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Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
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1957
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Nicholas Hawkins, MP
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1958
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Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
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1958
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Shaun Cassidy, rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
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1958
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Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
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1960
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Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
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1960
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Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
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1960
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Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
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1961
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Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
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1961
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Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
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1963
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Dave Koz, saxophonist
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1963
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Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
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1963
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Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
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1963
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Randall Cunningham, NFL QB (Phila Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
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1963
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Todd Graves, Laurel Miss, skeet (Olympics-1992, 96)
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1963
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Xuxa, [Maria da Graca Meneghel], Brazil, actress (Xuxa Park)
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1966
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Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
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1967
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Jaime Navarro, Bayamon Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
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1967
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Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
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1967
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Tom Hammonds, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets)
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1968
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Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
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1969
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Tom Beer, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
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1970
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Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
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1970
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Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
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1970
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Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
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1971
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Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
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1972
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Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
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1973
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Serge Tremblay, La Malbaie Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
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1974
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Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe (1997)
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1975
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B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
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1975
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Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
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1976
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Danny Fortson, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
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1976
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Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
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1977
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Tom van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
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1984
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Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
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1984
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J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
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1986
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Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
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1988
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Kerri Ann Darling, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
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DEATHS
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922
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Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
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965
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Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
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1211
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Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56
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1378
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Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
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1472
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Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
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1482
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Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25
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1625
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James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
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1668
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Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
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1679
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Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
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1701
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Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
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1714
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Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
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1757
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Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39
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1761
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Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
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1769
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Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
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1770
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Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
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1809
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Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
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1826
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Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
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1850
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Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
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1875
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Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasvrus), dies at 72
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1878
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Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
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1878
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George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
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1889
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Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
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1894
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Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
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1898
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Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
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1900
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Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
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1910
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Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
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1910
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David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
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1920
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Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
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1922
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Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
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1924
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Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
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1925
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Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
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1928
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Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
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1929
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... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies
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1931
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Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
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1933
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Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
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1938
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Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
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1939
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Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
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1943
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Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
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1945
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Jírgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
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1946
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Gabriela Preissov , writer, dies
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1947
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Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
|
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1948
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Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
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1953
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Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
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1956
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Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
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1959
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Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
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1960
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Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
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1961
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Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
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1966
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Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
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1967
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Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
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1968
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Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
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1972
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Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
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1973
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Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
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1975
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Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
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1975
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Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
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1977
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Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
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1977
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Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
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1977
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Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
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1978
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Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
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1979
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Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
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1982
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Joris No, Flemish literary, dies at 68
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1983
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James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
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1983
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Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
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1986
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Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
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1987
|
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Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
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1988
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Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
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1989
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May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
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1991
|
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Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
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1991
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Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
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1991
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Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
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1991
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Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
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1992
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Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
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1992
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Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
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1992
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Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
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1992
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James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
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1992
|
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Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
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1993
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Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
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1993
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Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
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1993
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Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
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1993
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Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
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1993
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Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
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1994
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Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
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1995
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Albert Drach, writer, dies
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1995
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Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
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1995
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Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
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1995
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Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
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