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Deaths on December 14

xxxx : Adan II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80
1077 : Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
1136 : Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
1417 : John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned
1542 : James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30
1591 : Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies
1732 : Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80
1734 : No‰l-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1754 : Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58
1760 : Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies
1788 : Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1788 : Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
1799 : George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66
1823 : Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
1829 : Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
1849 : Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69
1861 : Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42
1861 : George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
1861 : Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
1862 : George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27
1873 : J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
1886 : Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27
1893 : Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
1900 : Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
1903 : William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
1906 : John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78
1909 : Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
1914 : Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
1918 : Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
1923 : Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
1926 : Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
1928 : Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77
1935 : Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies
1938 : Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
1939 : Helene ELJ Kr”ller-Mller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70
1942 : Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
1945 : Constantino Gaito, composer, dies at 67
1945 : Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan & Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61
1945 : Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
1945 : Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
1947 : Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84
1947 : Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80
1948 : Reginald Owen Morris, composer, dies at 62
1950 : Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
1952 : Olav Fartein V†len, Norwegian composer, dies at 65
1959 : Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84
1960 : Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at 63
1963 : Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
1963 : Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62
1964 : William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
1965 : Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
1966 : Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91
1966 : Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60
1966 : Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
1973 : Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77
1974 : Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85
1975 : Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
1979 : Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
1980 : Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
1984 : Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del coraz¢n), dies at 86
1985 : Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
1985 : Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85
1987 : Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
1989 : Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 : Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70
1989 : Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad & Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64
1990 : F Drrenmatt, writer, dies at 69
1990 : Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
1990 : Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64
1991 : John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
1991 : Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1993 : Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88
1994 : Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75
1994 : Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58
1995 : Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 : Eric Brown, architect, dies at 84
1995 : Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
1996 : Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
1996 : Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88
1997 : Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99
1997 : Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82
1997 : Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79

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