8th December, on this day
1326 Daitokuji
temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1609 Biblioteca
Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of
Europe.
1710
Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
1733 First recorded sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object. A man
in Dorset, in the West of England, reports seeing a polished silver
disc in the sky
1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from
New Jersey
1777 Captain
Cook leaves Society
Islands
1792 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1813 Ludwig
von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 Hector
Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres
1849 Giuseppe
Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples
1852 Gustav
Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate
Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1857 1st production of Dion
Boucicault's "Poor of New York"
1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction
of South
1863 English boxer Tom King defeats American John Heenan to become
the first heavyweight champion of the world
1863 Jesuit
Church of La Compana in Santiago, Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in
panic
1864 Opening of the Clifton
Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, England. The
bridge is designed by English civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie KS
1875 Aleksandr
Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg
1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal, South-Africa
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1895
Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian
General Baratieri's out
1899 Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1907 Gustavus
V becomes King of Sweden following the death of Oskar II
1912 First
Balkan War : The Greek army captures Korçë
that had been under Ottoman rule.
1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
1914 British
and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1915 Jean
Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
1917 Battle
of Jerusalem : British forces capture the city of Jerusalem from
the Ottoman Empire
1921
Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 Salary and price freeze in Germany
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1935 The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of
the religious sect Oomoto,
beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe
and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo
Deguchi
1936 NAACP
files suit to equalize the salaries of black and white teachers
1936 Anastasio
Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
1938 LP
Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1941 The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong --
Battle
of Hong Kong, Malaya -- Battle
of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. They also invade the portions
of Shanghai administered by European powers and bomb American bases
in the Philippines. Because of the time difference, these events -
which took place west of the International Date Line - happened while
it was still December 7 to the east of this line
1941 Battle
of Prachuab Khirikhan : Japan conquers Thailand
1941 Battle
of Wake Island : First Japanese attack on Wake
Island
1941 US, Britain, Australia and China declare war on Japan, US enters
WWII
1941 London: Dutch government declares war on Japan
1941 The Provisional
Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation
which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people,
who were under Japanese occupation since 1910.
1941 San Francisco 1st blackout, at 6 15 PM
1941 Destruction
Camp Chelmo opens -- Gas
vans are first used as a means of execution
1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1942 Iin Ternopil,
Ukraine, the German SS organizes the deportation of the last 1,400
Ternopil Jews to the death camp in Belzec. The chief of the Gestapo,
SS-Sturmbannführer Heinrich
Müller, bore overall responsibility for the mass murder of
the Jews of Ternopil and Berezhany county.
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to
Formosa
1949 Jule Styne's
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres at Ziegfeld Theater
NYC for 740 performances
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 Yitzhak
Ben-Zvi elected President of Israel
1953 Dwight
D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms
for Peace speech.
1955 Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 1st test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing
the Blues" single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1956 16th
Olympic games close in Melbourne, Australia
1959 Dom
Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs Australia Test Cricket
at Karachi
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York NY
1962 Failed coup in Brunei
1963 Pan
Am Flight 214 : 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck
by lightning crashing near Elkton MD-Only case of lightning caused
crash, 81 die
1965 Nikolai
Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as President of USSR
1965 Pope
Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 The Greek SS
Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer
space
1967 Beatles "Magical
Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1968 Apollo 8 astronauts send the first live television pictures from
their spacecraft back to Earth
1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers
in Los Angeles
1972 Life
magazine ceases publication
1972 United
Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1974 Greek
monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 Irish
Republican Socialist Party forms
1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt
Waldheim Secretary-General
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Portugal's premier Soares
resigns
1980 Former Beatle John
Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment in New York by lone
gunman Mark
David Chapman
1980 "Bravo"
network premieres on cable TV
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 In Britain, Arthur
Scargill is elected President of the National Union of Mineworkers
1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman
Mayer, holds the Washington Monument hostage - After 10 hours,
police kill him; he has no explosives
1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse
murders 15 opponents
1983
Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco
Zen Center
1984 Ringo Starr appears on Saturday
Night Live
1984 Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lomé
III treaty
1987 The Queen
Street Massacre : Frank
Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia
Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself
1987 The Alianza
Lima air disaster : 43 people associated with the Peruvian Alianza
Lima football (soccer) team died
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising)
against Israel
1987 US President Ronald
Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign the
Intermediate Muclear Forces Treaty in Washington DC. Its the first
nuclear arms reduction agreement either country has signed
1988 As many as 100,000 are thought to have been killed by an earthquake
in Armenia
1989 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 Galileo
Earth-1 Flyby
1991 The official end of the Soviet Union (USSR)
when three of the major republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia
unite to form a Commonwealth of Independent States
1991 The Romanian
Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1992 Galileo's
nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 NBC announces that "Cheers"
will go off the air in May 1993
1993 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1993 The North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US
President Bill Clinton.
1994 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1998 Tadjena
massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002 The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government
of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba
Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004 "Dimebag"
Darrell Abbott: while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa
Villa in Columbus, Ohio, was shot and killed on stage by Nathan Gale.
2004 The Cuzco
Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American
Community of Nations
2005 Ante
Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured
in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police
2005 Southwest
Airlines Flight 1248 : the airplane slid off the runway while
landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing
Joshua Woods, a 6-year old boy in a car
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Birthdates which
occurred on 8th December :
0065 -BC- Horace
Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
1508 Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinersz] Frisian geographer/astronomer
1626 Christina queen of Swedenden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1704 Anton de Haen medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 Francis I Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1715 John Althuysen Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1728 Johann G von Zimmermann Swiss author
1730 John Ingen Housz Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1731 Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer
1737 Robert Kimmerling composer
1741 Maximilian JLP Gardel French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 Pierre Joseph Candielle composer
1765 Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
1789 John Fawcett composer
1795 Jacques François Gallay composer
1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer
1822 Luther Prentice Bradley Brigadier-General (Union volunteers),
died in 1910
1826 Friedrich Siemens German industrialist
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died
in 1890
1828 Robert Bullock Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in
1905
1832 Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje,
Nobel-1903)
1861 Aristide Maillol France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1861 William Crapo Durant founded General Motors
1861 Georges Méliès Paris France, magician; 1st to film
a fictional story
1862 Georges Feydeau French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 Jean Sibelius Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1865 Jacques Hadamard French mathematician (Taylor series)
1872 J C Powys writer
1877 Paul Emile Ladmirault composer
1879 Paul Klee Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
1881 Padraic Colum Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
1882 Manuel María Ponce Fresnillo México, composer (Estrellita)
1886 Diego Rivera [Lenin of México] México, painter/wife
of Frida Kahlo
1887 Vicente Emilio Sojo Guatire Venezuela, composer
1888 Vesey D'Davoren character actor
1888 Fiske Kimball US architect/art historian
1888 Paul Cavanagh Chislehurst England, actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1889 W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
1890 Bohuslav Jan Martinu Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o
Marti)
1894 James (Grover) Thurber Columbus OH, humorist (Men, Women &
Dogs)
1897 Leslie Heward composer
1899 John Qualen Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Grapes of Wrath,
The Searchers)
1899 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett pianist
1899 Sarah Williamson US missionary in Liberia
1903 Adele Simpson New York NY, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
1903 Cleo Brown pianist
1903 Irene Eisinger singer
1903 Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge author
1903 Zoltan Szekely composer
1904 Wilmer L Allison Jr tennis champion (US Open-1935)
1905 Frank Faylen St Louis MO, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1905 Charles Cushing composer
1905 Ernst Hermann Meyer composer
1905 Julius Silverman politician
1906 Richard Llewellyn Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1907 Frank Faylen St Louis MO, actor (Dobie Gillis)
1907 Tony Aubin composer
1908 John Volpe (Governor-MA)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
1911 Lee J Cobb New York NY, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the
Waterfront)
1912 Jura Soyfer writer
1913 Delmore Schwartz US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
1913 Paul Félix Flemish architect (Sun Song)
1915 Denis Harding soldier
1915 George Scheuer writer/journalist
1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard labor union representative
1917 Rufo I Wever Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ)
1918 Gérard Souzay Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
1918 Ian Johnson cricketer (Australian Test captain between Hassett
& Craig)
1919 Hans-Dieter Hosalla composer
1919 Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg composer
1920 Emmanuel McDonald Bailey Trinidad, 100 meter runner (Olympics-bronze-1952)
1920 Ron Gulliford educationalist
1921 Johnny Otis California, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin'
Up)
1921 Terence Morgan London England, actor (Adventures of Sir Francis
Drake)
1921 Terence Weil cellist/teacher
1922 John B (Jack) McKay US test pilot (X-15)
1922 Lucian Freud Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
1922 George Fullerton cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51)
1922 Jean Ritchie rocker
1925 Sammy Davis Jr New York NY, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11,
Candy Man)
1925 James E "Jimmy" Smith US jazz/organist (Walk on the
Wild Side)
1927 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8,
10)
1929 Goffredo Parise writer
1930 Alain Weber composer
1930 John Morressy US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
1930 Maximilian Schell Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
1931 Rudolf Komorous composer
1933 Flip Wilson [Clerow] Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
1936 David Carradine Hollywood CA, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
1936 Peter Parfitt cricketer (fine England batsman of the 1960's)
1936 W S "Buster" Farrer cricketer (South African Test batsman
1962-64)
1937 James MacArthur Los Angeles CA, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii
5-0)
1937 Jan van Houwelingen Dutch UnderSecretary of Defense (CDA)
1939 James Galway Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal
Philharmonic)
1939 Jerry Butler Sunflower MS, rock vocalist (Never Give You Up)
1939 Lynn Wilson contractor/multi-millionaire
1940 Graham Knight rocker
1940 Jenny Linden English actress (Hedda, Dr Who & the Daleks)
1941 Albert J Evenhuis Dutch UnderSecretary of Economic (VVD)
1941 Geoff Hurst cricketer (Essex 1962, better known as soccer immortal)
1942 Bobby Elliot rock drummer (Hollies)
1942 Hemant Kanitkar cricketer (batted in two Tests India vs West
Indies 1974)
1942 Mario Savio activist
1943 Jim Morrison Melbourne FL, singer (Doors) is he really dead?
1943 Mary Woronov Brooklyn Heights NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror
Vision)
1943 Michael Unger English editor-in-chief (Evening News, Manchester)
1944 Neil Innes musician (The Rutles)
1946 John Rubinstein Los Angeles CA, actor/composer (Family, Boys
from Brazil)
1946 Graham Knight rocker (Marmalade)
1947 Belinda Balaski Inglewood CA, actor (Cannonball, Proud Men, Howling)
1947 Frans Leijnse Dutch politician (PvdA 2nd Chamber)
1947 Geoff Daking rocker
1947 Gregg Allman Nashville TN, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers
Band)
1949 Mary Gordon US, author
1949 Ray Shulman rocker
1950 Dan Hartman Harrisburg PA, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
1950 Rick Baker Binghamton NY, special effects makeup artist (Exorcist)
1952 Richie Morales drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 Sam Kinison screaming comedian/actor (Back to School, Charlie
Hoover)
1953 Kim Basinger Athens GA, actress (9½ Weeks, Batman)
1953 Roy Firestone sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
1955 Ian Greig cricketer (brother of Tony Two Tests for England 1982)
1956 Warren Cuccurullo rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
1957 Phil Collen English rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1958 Billy Hufsey actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
1958 Wayne Dickert Chattanooga TN, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1959 Paul Rutherford vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1959 Mark Dickson Tampa FL, tennis star
1959 Marty Raybon Sanford FL, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1962 Berry van Aerle Dutch soccer star (PSV)
1962 Stephen John Elkington Inverell Australia, PGA golfer (1990 Kmart)
1964 James Martinez Santa Fe NM, rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 Teri Hatcher Sunnyvale CA, actress (Lois Lane-Lois & Clark)
1965 Greg Truitt NFL safety/linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1965 Teresa Weatherspoon WNBA guard (New York Liberty)
1965 Troy Sadowski NFL tight end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 Matthew Laborteaux Los Angeles CA, actor (Albert-Little House
on Prairie)
1966 Douglas Allan Martin Bluffton OH, PGA golfer (1995 Buick-2nd)
1966 Joe Staysniak NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 Siñead O'Connor Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares
2 U)
1967 Marina Augusta Baker Windsor England, playmate (March 1987)
1967 Jeff George NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders)
1967 Ron George linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Tony Mayberry NFL center (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1968 Bill Johnson defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1968 Mike Mussina Williamsport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1969 Lisa Marie Munzert New Castle DE, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
1969 Antoon Kuil soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 Bobby Phillips WLAF running back (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt
Galaxy)
1969 Darrin Shannon Barrie, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 Victor Green NFL cornerback/safety (New York Jets)
1971 Garvin Alston Mount Vernon NY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 James Stewart NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Mitch Jacoby tight end (St Louis Rams)
1973 Monty Montgomery defensiveback (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Paul Staight Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1978 Kate Robinson Peoria IL, dance skater (& Peter Breen)
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Deaths which occurred on 8th December:
0644 Omar I 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered
0899 Arnulf of Carinthia last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1292 John Peckham English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
1587 Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
1596 Luis de Carabajal 1st Jewish author in America, executed in México
1643 John Pym English House of Commons member, dies at about 59
1652 Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel Flemish missionary, murdered
at 35
1681 Gerard Terborch the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies
1709 Thomas Corneille French dramatist, dies at 74
1722 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts German/French duchess,
dies at 70
1751 Jozef LD von Königsegg minister of Austrian Netherlands,
dies at 78
1785 Antonio Maria Mazzoni composer, dies at 68
1830 H Benjamin Constant French politician/writer, dies at 63
1831 James Hoban architect who designed the White House, dies
1894 Willem JF Nuyens Dutch physician/Roman Catholic historian, dies
at 71
1896 Earnest Angel German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
1900 Henry Russell composer, dies at 87
1903 Herbert Spencer British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
1907 Oscar II Frederick King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
1923 Dom Joseph Pothier French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
1924 Franz X Scharwenka German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies
at 74
1926 Jan Six Dutch art historian/collector, dies
1934 Bernhard Seklas composer, dies at 62
1939 Ernest Schelling composer, dies at 63
1954 Gladys George actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
1955 Jacques Handschin Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
1956 Edgar Leslie Bainton composer, dies at 76
1957 Reginald Sheffield actor (Second Chance), dies at 55
1961 William Beatton Moonie composer, dies at 78
1967 Robert H Lawrence USAF/astronaut, dies at 32
1969 Vincenzo Davico composer, dies at 80
1970 Christopher K Ingold English chemist, dies at 77
1972 George Collins (Representative-IL), dies at 47, in airplane crash
1974 Hugues Panassié French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at
62
1978 Golda Meir Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980 John Lennon assassinated at 40 in New York by Mark David Chapman
1981 Walter "Shakey" Horton harmonica stylist (Everybody's
Fishin'), dies at 64
1982 André Kamperveen Suriname minister, murdered
1982 Bertus de Harder Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies
1982 Bram Behr Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1982 Cyrill Daal Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 Frank Wijngaarde Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Gerald Leckie Suriname scholar, murdered
1982 Harald Riedewald Suriname attorney, murdered
1982 John Baboeram Suriname lawyer, murdered
1982 Jozef Slagveer Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Kenneth Goncalves Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
1982 Leslie Rahman Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Marty Robbins country singer, dies at 57
1982 Surendre Rambocus Suriname army lieutenant, murdered
1983 Slim Pickins western actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain
surgery at 64
1984 Luther Adler actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies
at 81
1988 Anne Seymour actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
1988 Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad US singer (Persuasions-Good news),
dies at 44
1989 Hans Hartung German/French painter, dies
1990 Martin Ritt US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
1990 Pony Sherrell Metcalf New York, singer, dies of heart attack
1991 Buck Clayton US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
1991 Kimberly Bergalis got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
1992 William Shawn US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies
at 85
1993 André Cerf French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93
1993 Carlotta Monti lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
1994 Antonio Carlos Jobim Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies
at 67
1994 Israel Aaron Maisels lawyer, dies at 89
1994 Jesús "Enrique" Líster Spanish/Russian
general (Civil War), dies at 87
1995 Carl Marsden bodyguard, dies at 36
1995 Ernest LeRoy Boyer educator, dies at 67
1995 John Gillett film researcher, dies at 70
1995 Mikki Doyle journalist, dies at 79
1996 Howard E Rollins Jr actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at
46
1996 Marin Sorescu poet/dramatist, dies at 60
1997 Bob Bell clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75
1997 Leon Poliakov historian, dies at 87
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