January 29
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining (337 in
leap years).
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904 -
Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the
papacy from the deposed
antipope Christopher.
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1595 -
William Shakespeare's play
Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
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1676 -
Feodor III becomes
Tsar of
Russia.
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1814 -
France defeated
Russia and
Prussia in the
Battle of Brienne.
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1834 - US President
Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a
labor dispute.
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1845 -
The Raven by
Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (
New York Evening Mirror).
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1850 -
Henry Clay introduces the
Compromise of 1850 to the
U.S. Congress.
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1856 - Queen
Victoria institutes the
Victoria Cross.
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1861 -
Kansas admitted as the 34th
U.S. state.
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1863 -
Bear River Massacre.
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1886 -
Karl Benz patents the first successful
gasoline-driven
automobile.
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1891 -
Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of
Hawaii, its last monarch.
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1900 - The
American League is organized in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
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1916 -
World War I:
Paris is first bombed by
German zeppelins .
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1929 - The
Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
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1933 -
President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints
Adolf Hitler as
Chancellor of Germany.
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1936 - The first inductees into the
Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
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1943 - The first day of the
Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser
Chicago is torpedoed by Japanese bombers and heavily damaged.
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1944 - The battleship
USS Missouri is launched.
* 1944 -
World War II: The
Battle of Cisterna takes place in central
Italy.
* 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the
Koniuchy massacre in
Poland.
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1958 - Police capture
Charles Starkweather in
Wyoming.
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1959 -
Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by
Walt Disney based upon a
fairy tale, was first released.
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1963 - First inductees into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
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1964 -
Olympic Games:
Winter Olympic Games -
The IX Olympic Winter Games open in
Innsbruck,
Austria.
* 1964 -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the US
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1966 - The first of 608 performances of
Sweet Charity opens at the
Palace Theatre in
New York City.
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1986 -
Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as
President of
Uganda.
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1978 -
Sweden outlaws
aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the
ozone layer, becoming the first
nation to enact such a
ban.
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1989 - The
Orlando Arena, now titled the
TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The
TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the
Orlando Magic of the
NBA and the
Orlando Predators of the
AFL.
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1995 -
Super Bowl XXIX: The
San Francisco 49ers defeat the
San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first
NFL team to win five
Super Bowl titles.
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1996 - President
Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to
French nuclear testing.
* 1996 -
La Fenice,
Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
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1998 - In
Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an
abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber
Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
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2001 - Thousands of student protesters in
Indonesia storm parliament and demand that
President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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2002 - In his
State of the Union Address,
United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor
terror" as an
Axis of Evil, in which he includes
Iraq,
Iran and
North Korea.
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2004 - A
whale explodes in the town of
Tainan,
Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long
Sperm whale is suspected of causing the
explosion.
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2006 - Sheikh
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of
Kuwait.
* 2006 -
ABC News co-anchor
Bob Woodruff and his cameraman
Doug Vogt were severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
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1584 -
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d.
1647)
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1632 -
Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d.
1703)
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1688 -
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d.
1772)
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1711 -
Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d.
1788)
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1715 -
Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d.
1777)
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1717 -
Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d.
1797)
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1718 -
Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d.
1794)
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1737 -
Thomas Paine, American patriot (d.
1809)
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1749 - King
Christian VII of Denmark (d.
1808)
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1754 -
Moses Cleaveland, founder of the city of Cleveland (d.
1806)
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1782 -
Daniel Auber, French composer (d.
1871)
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1843 -
William McKinley, 25th
President of the United States (d.
1901)
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1846 -
Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d.
1915)
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1860 -
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d.
1904)
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1862 -
Frederick Delius, English composer (d.
1934)
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1866 -
Romain Rolland, French writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1944)
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1874 -
John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d.
1960)
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1876 -
Havergal Brian, British composer (d.
1972)
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1880 -
W.C. Fields, American actor (d.
1946)
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1891 -
Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d.
1975)
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1905 -
Barnett Newman, American painter (d.
1970)
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1910 -
Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d.
1983)
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1911 -
Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d.
1986)
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1913 -
Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d.
2001)
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1915 -
Victor Mature, American actor (d.
1999)
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1918 -
John Forsythe, American actor
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1921 -
Anthony George, American actor (d.
2005)
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1923 -
Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d.
1981)
* 1923 -
Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d.
2000)
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1924 -
Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d.
1990)
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1926 -
Franco Cerri, Italian musician
* 1926 -
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1996)
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1927 -
Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d.
1989)
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1928 -
Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
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1929 -
Gordon Solie, wrestling announcer (d.
2000)
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1932 -
Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d.
1958)
* 1932 -
George Allen, English footballer
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1936 -
James Jamerson, Electric Bass legend & Motown's master of groove. (d.
1983)
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1939 -
Germaine Greer, Australian writer
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1940 -
Katharine Ross, American actress
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1942 -
Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
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1945 -
Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
* 1945 -
Tom Selleck, American actor
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1947 -
Linda B. Buck, American scientist,
Nobel Prize Laureate*
1948 -
Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
* 1948 -
Marc Singer, Canadian actor
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1950 -
Ann Jillian, American actress
* 1950 -
Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
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1952 -
Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (
The Ramones)
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1953 -
Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
* 1953 -
Teresa Teng, Chinese singer (d.
1995)
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1954 -
Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, American singer (
The Dictators and
MC5)
* 1954 -
Terry Kinney, American actor
* 1954 -
Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher
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1957 -
Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
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1960 -
Gia Carangi, American model (d.
1986)
* 1960 -
Sean Kerly, British field hockey player
* 1960 -
Greg Louganis, American diver
* 1960 -
Steve Sax, American baseball player
* 1960 -
J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
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1962 -
Nicholas Turturro, American actor
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1963 -
Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
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1964 -
Andre Reed, American football player
* 1964 -
John Habyan, baseball player
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1965 -
Dominik Hasek, Czech hockey player
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1966 -
Romário, Brazilian footballer
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1968 -
Edward Burns, American actor
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1969 -
Thomas Jane, American actor
* 1969 -
Hyde, Japanese singer
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1970 -
Heather Graham, American actress
* 1970 -
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
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1973 -
Jason Schmidt, baseball player
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1975 -
Sara Gilbert, American actress
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1978 -
Rob Bironas, American football player
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1979 -
Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
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1980 -
Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model
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1981 -
Jonny Lang, American musician
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1986 -
Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
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1987 -
Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d.
2006)
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1119 -
Pope Gelasius II*
1342 -
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b.
1279)
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1597 -
Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b.
1530)
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1608 -
Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b.
1557)
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1647 -
Francis Meres, English writer (b.
1565)
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1676 - Tsar
Alexis I of Russia (b.
1629)
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1678 -
Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b.
1593)
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1696 -
Ivan V, Russian tsar;reigned from (1682-1689)
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1706 -
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b.
1638)
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1730 - Tsar
Peter II of Russia (b.
1715)
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1737 -
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b.
1666)
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1743 -
Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister under
Louis XV of France (b.
1653)
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1763 -
Louis Racine, French poet (b.
1692)
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1820 - King
George III of the United Kingdom (b.
1738)
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1829 -
Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b.
1755)
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1870 -
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.
1797)
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1901 -
Milan I, King of Serbia (b.
1855)
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1906 - King
Christian IX of Denmark (b.
1818)
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1918 -
Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b.
1861)
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1928 -
Douglas Haig, British soldier (b.
1861)
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1933 -
Sara Teasdale, American poet (b.
1884)
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1934 -
Fritz Haber, German chemist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (b.
1868)
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1946 -
Harry Hopkins, 8th
United States Secretary of Commerce (b.
1890)
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1950 -
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,
Emir of Kuwait (b.
1885)
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1951 -
Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b.
1880)
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1956 -
H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b.
1880)
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1962 -
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b.
1875)
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1963 -
Robert Frost, American poet (b.
1874)
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1964 -
Alan Ladd, American actor (b.
1913)
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1969 -
Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b.
1893)
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1970 -
Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b.
1895)
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1977 -
Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b.
1902)
* 1977 -
Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b.
1954)
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1980 -
Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b.
1893)
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1986 -
Leif Erickson, American actor (b.
1911)
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1989 -
Halina Konopacka Polish athlete (b.
1900)
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1991 -
Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b.
1907)
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1992 -
Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b.
1915)
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1998 -
Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b.
1916)
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1999 -
Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b.
1918)
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2002 -
Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b.
1928)
* 2002 -
Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b.
1914)
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2003 -
Frank Moss,
United States Senator from Utah (b.
1911)
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2004 -
M. M. Kaye, British writer (b.
1908)
* 2004 -
Joe Viterelli, American actor (b.
1937)
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2005 -
Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (
The Quarrymen) (b.
1940)
* 2005 -
Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b.
1924)
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