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Deaths on February 24

1563 : Fran‡ois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1624 : Vicente Espinel, Sp adventure/chaplain (Marcos de Obr‚gon), dies at 72
1642 : Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 : Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
1686 : Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 : Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
1704 : Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1735 : Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
1784 : Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
1785 : Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 : Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 : Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 : John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 : Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1812 : Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1815 : Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies
1825 : Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 : Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1836 : D niel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies at 59
1848 : Frans van Campenhout, Belg singer/composer (Braban‡onne), dies at 69
1862 : Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1871 : Th‚odore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher, dies at 73
1874 : Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
1876 : Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1895 : Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
1907 : Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
1908 : Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1919 : Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 : Alfred Espinas, French sociologist (Soci‚tes Animales), dies at 77
1922 : Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 : Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1926 : Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 : Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
1930 : Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 : Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 : Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 : Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1945 : Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 : Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 : Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 : Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1961 : L‚on Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (P‚dagogie en Cours), dies at 77
1964 : Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 : Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 : Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 : Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 : Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 : Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 : Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 : Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
1976 : H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 : Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 : Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 : Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1983 : Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
1984 : Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1988 : Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1990 : Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 : Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 : Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 : Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 : George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 : Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 : Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 : Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 : Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 : Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
1993 : Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1994 : Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 : Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 : Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
1994 : Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 : Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
1995 : Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 : Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 : Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 : James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 : Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 : Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 : Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92

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