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Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

1st - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
4th - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
5th - Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
5th - Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67
5th - Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76
7th - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
7th - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
7th - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
9th - Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
10th - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
11th - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
12th - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
13th - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
14th - Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924), dies
15th - Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
20th - Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
23rd - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
25th - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
27th - Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistani left-arm quick 1965), dies
28th - Alec Marks, cricketer (good NSW batsman 1928-37), dies
29th - David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
29th - J B Charles, [Willem Nagel], Dutch criminologist/writer, dies at 83
29th - Luis Buñuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
29th - Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
30th - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
30th - Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
30th - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)