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Deaths on December 25

xxxx : an I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies
xxxx : V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
1156 : Peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61
1249 : Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies
1513 : Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
1530 : Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies
1683 : Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed
1761 : Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51
1765 : Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79
1788 : John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40
1824 : Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60
1842 : Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76
1848 : Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60
1868 : Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies
1878 : Anna Claypoole Peale, US painter of miniatures, dies
1883 : Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65
1895 : Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32
1903 : Albert Sch„ffle, German sociologist, dies at 72
1904 : Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61
1921 : Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
1921 : Korolenko, writer, dies
1922 : Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75
1925 : Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30
1926 : Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
1927 : Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
1930 : Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
1936 : Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68
1938 : Karel Capek, Czech author/antifascist (B¡l Nemoc), dies at 48
1940 : Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42
1942 : Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32
1943 : Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62
1943 : Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82
1946 : W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67
1950 : Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
1951 : Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
1954 : Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25
1954 : Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96
1954 : Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84
1956 : Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78
1957 : Frederick Law Olmsted, US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
1961 : Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
1963 : Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67
1964 : Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
1971 : Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70
1973 : Ismet In”n [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish PM (1923..65), dies at 89
1975 : Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94
1976 : Arthur Mitchell, cricketer (batted in 6 Tests for Eng 1933-36), dies
1976 : Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58
1977 : Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1979 : Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
1979 : Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
1980 : Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80
1980 : Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43
1980 : Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered
1983 : Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
1985 : George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
1989 : Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
1989 : Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
1989 : Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed
1989 : Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed
1989 : Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Ang‚lique), dies
1989 : Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51
1990 : Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
1991 : Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90
1991 : Mahmood Hussain, cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies
1991 : Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et C‚sar), dies at 87
1991 : Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
1992 : Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
1992 : Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87
1992 : Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77
1992 : Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
1994 : Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87
1994 : Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78
1995 : Dean Martin, singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
1995 : Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89
1995 : Jimmy Boucher, cricketer (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies
1995 : Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101
1996 : Derek Prouse, writer actor/director (Le Scandale), dies at 74
1996 : Jon Benet Ramsey, Colo child beauty queen, murdered at 6
1996 : Rupert John, gov-gen of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
1997 : Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
1997 : Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77
1997 : Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76
1997 : Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84

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