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Deaths on February 23

1447 : Eugene IV, [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
1468 : John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
1554 : Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed
1607 : Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1660 : Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1662 : Johann Crger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63
1669 : Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68
1682 : Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75
1704 : Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
1718 : Fran‡ois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63
1766 : Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
1792 : Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
1797 : Antoine d'Auvergne, Fr opera composer (Coquette Tromp‚e), dies at 83
1806 : John Alcock, composer, dies at 90
1807 : Fran‡ois Guichard, composer, dies at 61
1821 : John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
1821 : John Keats, writer, dies at 25
1821 : Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
1828 : Mih ly Fazekar, Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies
1848 : John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1855 : Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
1867 : George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90
1884 : Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23
1897 : Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68
1900 : William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies
1902 : Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
1903 : Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
1903 : Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
1906 : Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
1913 : Jimmy Sinclair, cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test S Afr career), dies
1915 : Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
1916 : George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71
1920 : Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61
1924 : Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies
1927 : Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
1930 : Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
1930 : Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
1931 : Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
1934 : Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 : Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76
1935 : Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
1937 : Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1942 : Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
1944 : Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies
1945 : Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945 : Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
1955 : Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
1961 : Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies
1965 : Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74
1968 : Edna Ferber, US author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80
1968 : Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
1969 : Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, King Saudia, dies at 67
1969 : Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75
1971 : King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73
1972 : Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81
1974 : Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63
1976 : Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74
1976 : L S Lowry, painter, dies
1980 : Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
1983 : Adrian Boult, conductor, dies
1985 : Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71
1987 : Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
1990 : Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1990 : James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
1990 : Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1992 : Jacquelyn Hyde, actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
1992 : Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
1993 : Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
1994 : Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
1995 : Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69
1995 : David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52
1995 : James Herriot, Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1995 : Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95
1995 : Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79
1996 : Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut & wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies
1996 : George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
1996 : Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78
1997 : Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80
1997 : Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51
1998 : Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74

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