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Deaths on August 03

xxxx : Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 : Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 : Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 : Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1778 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1801 : Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 : Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
1816 : Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1862 : William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 : Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 : Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 : Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 : Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 : Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1873 : Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
1891 : Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
1904 : Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
1908 : Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1910 : Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
1910 : Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
1916 : Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies
1934 : Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
1940 : George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for S Africa 1896-99), dies
1948 : Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
1948 : Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 : Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
1952 : Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
1957 : Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
1960 : Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
1965 : Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
1965 : Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1966 : Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
1966 : Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
1966 : Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
1967 : John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1969 : Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 : Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
1971 : Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
1971 : Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
1972 : Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1973 : Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
1974 : John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
1976 : Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1977 : Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
1977 : Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1978 : James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1981 : Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1982 : Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
1984 : Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1986 : Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1987 : Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1988 : Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
1989 : Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 : Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 : Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
1990 : Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1991 : Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1992 : Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
1992 : Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 : "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 : Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1994 : Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1994 : Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
1994 : Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
1995 : Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1995 : Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
1995 : Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
1996 : Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68

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