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Deaths on March 02

1122 : Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 : Charles, the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered
1333 : Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies
1383 : Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies
1619 : Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at
1758 : Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1772 : Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73
1787 : Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, di
1797 : Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
1800 : Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
1822 : Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
1840 : Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies
1855 : Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
1862 : Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
1867 : French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
1868 : Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81
1882 : Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70
1887 : August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47
1887 : Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63
1895 : Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
1895 : Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1916 : Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
1930 : David H Lawrence, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies
1937 : Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73
1939 : Howard Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), di
1943 : Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), die
1950 : M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), d
1957 : Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1959 : Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1959 : Yrl” Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67
1962 : Charles-Jean baron de la Vall‚e-Poussin, Belgian engineer, di
1967 : Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
1971 : Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
1972 : Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1973 : Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
1974 : Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 4
1975 : Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65
1979 : Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies a
1979 : Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75
1979 : Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1981 : Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30
1982 : Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies
1984 : Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
1985 : John B Kelly Jr, chairman US Olympic Committee, dies at 57
1985 : Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 77 of Par
1986 : Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
1986 : Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
1987 : Randolph Scott, actor (Ft Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies
1991 : Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1991 : Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi,
1991 : James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at
1991 : Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at
1993 : Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
1993 : Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 5
1994 : Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80
1994 : Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
1995 : Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77
1995 : Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
1996 : Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61

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