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Deaths 1 - 28 of 28

2nd - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
2nd - William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
3rd - Mary Nash, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91
4th - Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
4th - Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
4th - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
6th - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
9th - Nino Martini, actor (Here's to Romance), dies at 71
12th - Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
12th - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
13th - Eduard Claudius, writer, dies
16th - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies
16th - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada) (b. 1917)
18th - George Emmett, cricketer (Engld opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies
20th - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
20th - Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80
21st - Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies
23rd - Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies
23rd - Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80
23rd - Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72
24th - Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
24th - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
25th - Arthur Mitchell, cricketer (batted in 6 Tests for Eng 1933-36), dies
25th - Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58
26th - Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64
28th - Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42
28th - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
29th - Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter (Oly-silver-76), dies at 22