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Deaths on April 22

1925 : Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46
1993 : Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
1984 : Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
1941 : Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies
1592 : Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80
1990 : Bertil Unger, actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
1992 : Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34
1981 : Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
1648 : Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69
1993 : Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1950 : Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
1977 : Charles Sanford, orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
1994 : D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
1996 : David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63
1994 : Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
1995 : Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53
1899 : E J (Ned) Gregory, cricketer (one Test for Aust), dies
1983 : Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
1892 : Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69
1355 : Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36
1253 : Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53
1996 : Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69
1865 : Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1933 : Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
1976 : Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79
1672 : Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
1462 : Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies
1699 : Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53
1946 : Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73
1844 : Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
1908 : Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
1996 : Hiteshwar Saikia, PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies
1989 : Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1957 : Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1988 : Irene Rich, US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
1994 : Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
1778 : James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1980 : Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1930 : Jeppe Aakj‘r, Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63
1776 : Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
1821 : John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52
1662 : John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies
1992 : Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
1782 : Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66
1864 : Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
1521 : Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded
1945 : K„the Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
1830 : Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1946 : Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
1995 : Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
1961 : Maria Radulphus, [Adrian Hermus], Cura‡ao school inspector, dies at 91
1993 : Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
1975 : Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
1982 : Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
1944 : Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
1986 : Mircea Eliade, writer, dies
1883 : Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
1929 : Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
1722 : Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
1994 : Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81
1833 : Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1994 : Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
1962 : Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61
1951 : Stanley Ridges, actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
1827 : Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies
1967 : Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
1953 : Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
1962 : Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
1983 : Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in NY at 80
1677 : Wenzel E Frst von Lobkowitz, Austria chancellor (16..-74), dies at 68
1978 : Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
1901 : William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
1992 : Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
1788 : Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46

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