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Deaths on August 25

xxxx : Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25
xxxx : Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
xxxx : Plinius Secundus, [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral/writer, dies
1227 : Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia, dies
1270 : Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56
1346 : Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
1554 : Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
1556 : David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
1580 : Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies
1649 : Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
1688 : Henry Morgan, Welsh lt-governor of Jamaica
1742 : Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer, dies at 38
1773 : Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29
1774 : Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59
1789 : Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
1791 : Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
1822 : F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
1835 : Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
1840 : K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44
1842 : Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80
1846 : Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73
1868 : Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
1868 : Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
1868 : Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
1900 : Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
1901 : Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that
1901 : the mosquito carries yellow fever
1929 : Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies
1930 : Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
1936 : Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
1938 : Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
1942 : George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews, dies in battle at 39
1942 : Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70
1942 : W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1944 : Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 : Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
1947 : Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76
1956 : Alfred C Kinsey, US sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies
1967 : George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1967 : Paul Muni, actor (Good Earth), dies after lengthy illness at 71
1968 : John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70
1968 : Stan McCabe, cricketer (39 Tests for Australia 1930-38), dies
1971 : Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
1972 : Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
1972 : Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
1975 : Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at 75
1975 : John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1976 : Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76
1976 : Perc Hornibrook, cricketer (6 Tests 1928-30, 17 wickets), dies
1979 : Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
1980 : Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
1982 : John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
1984 : Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59
1984 : Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84
1985 : Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
1986 : Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
1988 : Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
1989 : Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1991 : Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
1991 : Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
1991 : Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1992 : Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
1992 : Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White & 21), dies at 86
1992 : Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
1993 : Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
1994 : Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52
1995 : John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60
1995 : R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41
1996 : Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64
1996 : Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
1996 : Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant, dies at 67
1996 : Les Burns, local councillor, dies at 53
1996 : Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86
1997 : Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
1997 : James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70
1997 : Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78

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