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Deaths on December 02

1463 : Albrecht VI, archduke of Habsburg, dies
1515 : Gonzalo de C¢rdoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
1592 : Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Neth (1579-92), dies at 46
1719 : Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1723 : Philip, French duke of Orl‚ans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
1763 : Carl August Thielo, composer, dies at 56
1774 : Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1814 : Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74
1828 : Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 : Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56
1845 : Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82
1859 : John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
1864 : Archibald Gracie Jr, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 31
1880 : Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65
1888 : Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54
1888 : Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1903 : Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
1915 : Jan Malat, composer, dies at 72
1916 : Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
1918 : Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38
1919 : Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
1923 : Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer, dies at 72
1925 : Julio Garreta, composer, dies at 50
1931 : Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
1933 : Josef Gruber, composer, dies at 78
1935 : Albert Kessel, 1st to die in Calif gas chamber
1943 : Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies
1944 : Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
1944 : JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
1950 : Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
1953 : Ernest Hayes, cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
1953 : Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1957 : Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1963 : Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1964 : Roger BissiŠre, French painter, dies at 76
1965 : The Rajkumar of Vizianagram, cricketer (Indian Test capt 1936), dies
1966 : Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1967 : Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
1969 : Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies
1970 : Dora Paulen, German/Dutch cabaretiŠre, dies at about 72
1972 : Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies
1972 : Jos‚ Lim¢n, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
1974 : Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer, dies at 72
1976 : Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pitts Pirates), dies at 59
1976 : William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
1979 : Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer, dies at 72
1981 : Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62
1981 : Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot, gov of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79
1981 : Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, US architect (UN), dies at 86
1982 : David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1982 : Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
1983 : Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (S African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1983 : Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79
1985 : Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
1985 : Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
1986 : Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
1986 : Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59
1990 : Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1990 : Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82
1992 : Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
1992 : Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die
1993 : Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
1994 : Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85
1994 : James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at 86
1995 : Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
1995 : Roxie Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), dies at 66
1995 : Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88
1995 : [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
1996 : Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76

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