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Deaths on August 14

1993 : Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons d‚barras), dies at 49
1982 : Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58
1984 : John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89
1905 : Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
1922 : Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
1928 : Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37
1167 : Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1433 : Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76
1587 : Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49
1652 : Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60
1727 : William Croft, composer, dies at 48
1763 : Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76
1778 : Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
1785 : John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
1788 : Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies
1794 : George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
1833 : Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
1834 : Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63
1841 : Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General P„dagogik), dies at 65
1844 : Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
1856 : William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies
1858 : George Combe, phrenologist, dies
1863 : Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70
1867 : Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84
1870 : David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies
1884 : Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46
1887 : Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies
1891 : Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1905 : Spiss, German bishop of Drone-ash-Salaam, dies
1923 : Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76
1932 : Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies
1936 : Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
1937 : Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48
1938 : Hugh Trumble, cricketer (32 Tests for Australia, 141 wickets), dies
1938 : J J Kelly, cricketer (36 Tests for Aust 1896-1905, stumped 20), dies
1938 : Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies at 65
1941 : Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
1941 : Milh ly Babits, Hungarians literary (G¢lyakalifa), dies at 57
1946 : Susan St James, [Susan Jane Miller], LA Calif, actress (Kate & Allie)
1949 : Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
1949 : Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
1951 : William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
1955 : Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian, dies at 66
1956 : Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58
1956 : Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min (1932-38), dies
1958 : Big Bill Broonzy, rocker, dies of cancer at 65
1958 : Fr‚d‚ric Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
1958 : Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
1958 : Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
1961 : Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
1961 : Guido Alberto Fano, composer, dies at 86
1961 : Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
1963 : Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57
1965 : Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies
1966 : S J "Tip" Snooke, S Afr cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies
1969 : Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88
1969 : Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers), dies at 58
1970 : Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62
1971 : Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59
1972 : Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
1972 : Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
1972 : Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66
1975 : Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87
1976 : Werner Br„unig, writer, dies
1980 : Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider
1981 : Dudley Nourse, cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies
1981 : Karl B”hm, Austria conductor, dies at 86
1984 : Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer, dies at 63
1984 : Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master, dies at 55
1985 : Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
1988 : Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
1991 : Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
1992 : Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104
1992 : Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
1992 : John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate), dies at 88
1992 : Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
1992 : Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64
1994 : Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
1994 : Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
1994 : Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83
1994 : Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal, dies at 67
1994 : Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 : Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82
1996 : Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93
1996 : Sergiu Celibidache, conductor, dies at 84
1996 : Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64

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