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Deaths on February 07

1593 : Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 : Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1743 : Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 : Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 : William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1820 : Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
1823 : Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827 : Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1830 : Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
1857 : F‚lix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1862 : Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
1865 : John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1878 : Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1881 : Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 : Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 : Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
1911 : Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
1915 : Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1918 : Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
1920 : Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1921 : Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
1931 : Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
1933 : Albert Gy”rgy Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 : Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1940 : Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for Engld v Australia 1894-95), dies
1942 : Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
1948 : "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
1954 : Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1957 : Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
1958 : Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
1959 : Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 : Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1959 : Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1960 : Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1961 : Louis-Ferdinand C‚line, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67
1962 : Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
1964 : Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 : Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Oly-gold-32), dies at 59
1965 : Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1967 : Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1968 : Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1968 : Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1969 : Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
1974 : Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 : Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 : Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 : Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 : Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1980 : Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1984 : Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 : Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 : Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1986 : Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1987 : David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Hsker Du), commits suicide at 24
1988 : Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1990 : Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 : Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 : Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1991 : Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
1991 : Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
1992 : Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1993 : Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
1993 : W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 : Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
1994 : Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
1995 : Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 : Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
1996 : George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 : Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 : Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 : Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
1996 : Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1997 : Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
1998 : Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51

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