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Jun 23rd - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
Jun 23rd - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
Jun 23rd - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
Jun 23rd - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
Jun 23rd - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
Jun 23rd - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
Jun 27th - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
Jun 28th - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
Jun 28th - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
Jun 28th - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
Jun 28th - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
Jun 30th - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
Jul 1st - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
Jul 4th - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
Jul 5th - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
Jul 6th - Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
Jul 7th - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
Jul 9th - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
Jul 11th - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80
Jul 11th - Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
Jul 12th - John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92
Jul 13th - Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies
Jul 15th - Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84
Jul 15th - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
Jul 17th - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
Jul 17th - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
Jul 18th - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
Jul 22nd - Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54
Jul 23rd - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
Jul 23rd - Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
Jul 24th - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
Jul 24th - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
Jul 25th - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
Jul 26th - Alan Hoskins, dies
Jul 26th - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
Jul 27th - Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
Jul 28th - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
Jul 29th - Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58
Jul 30th - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
Jul 30th - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
Jul 31st - Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49
Jul 31st - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
Aug 1st - Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
Aug 1st - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
Aug 2nd - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
Aug 5th - Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
Aug 6th - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
Aug 8th - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
Aug 8th - Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
Aug 8th - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
Aug 9th - Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
Aug 9th - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
Aug 9th - P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies
Aug 9th - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
Aug 11th - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
Aug 14th - Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider
Aug 18th - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
Aug 20th - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
Aug 20th - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
Aug 21st - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
Aug 22nd - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
Aug 22nd - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
Aug 23rd - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
Aug 24th - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
Aug 25th - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
Aug 26th - Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
Aug 26th - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
Aug 26th - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
Aug 27th - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
Aug 27th - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
Sep 2nd - William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70
Sep 3rd - Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
Sep 3rd - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
Sep 3rd - Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
Sep 3rd - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926
Sep 4th - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74
Sep 5th - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
Sep 8th - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
Sep 8th - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
Sep 9th - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
Sep 11th - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80
Sep 12th - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
Sep 15th - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
Sep 17th - Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
Sep 17th - Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
Sep 18th - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
Sep 20th - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
Sep 21st - Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
Sep 25th - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
Sep 25th - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
Sep 25th - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
Sep 25th - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
Oct 1st - George Meany, union pres (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
Oct 2nd - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
Oct 6th - Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56
Oct 6th - Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
Oct 6th - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
Oct 10th - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
Oct 10th - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
Oct 10th - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
Oct 14th - S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India), dies
Oct 15th - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
Oct 15th - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
Oct 16th - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
Oct 21st - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
Oct 24th - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30
Oct 26th - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
Oct 27th - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, dies at 31
Oct 27th - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
Oct 28th - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
Nov 2nd - Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies
Nov 2nd - Willie Sutton, US bank robber, dies at 79
Nov 3rd - Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
Nov 4th - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
Nov 6th - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
Nov 7th - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
Nov 9th - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
Nov 9th - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
Nov 12th - Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
Nov 12th - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
Nov 12th - Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
Nov 15th - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
Nov 16th - Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
Nov 18th - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
Nov 21st - Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies
Nov 22nd - Herbert Wade, cricketer (S African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
Nov 22nd - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
Nov 22nd - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
Nov 22nd - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
Nov 22nd - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
Nov 23rd - Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
Nov 23rd - Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
Nov 24th - George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace), dies at 85
Nov 24th - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
Nov 25th - George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
Nov 26th - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
Nov 27th - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
Nov 29th - Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
Nov 29th - Dorothy Day, American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1897).
Dec 1st - Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
Dec 2nd - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
Dec 3rd - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
Dec 4th - Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
Dec 5th - Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
Dec 7th - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
Dec 8th - John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
Dec 12th - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
Dec 13th - Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
Dec 14th - Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
Dec 16th - Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90