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Deaths on March 26

1258 : Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1350 : Alfonso XI, King of Castile & Le¢n, dies
1546 : Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies
1566 : Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies
1638 : Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30
1649 : John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies
1657 : Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
1713 : Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77
1726 : John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 : Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49
1797 : James Hutton, geologist, dies
1809 : Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1820 : Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1827 : Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1831 : Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1837 : Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53
1865 : Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1871 : Fran‡ois-Joseph F‚tis, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87
1880 : Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62
1892 : Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
1892 : Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
1896 : Nanny v Hof, writer, dies
1900 : Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
1902 : Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1909 : Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
1918 : C‚sar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1923 : Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77
1924 : Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
1926 : Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies
1926 : Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1932 : Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
1934 : Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51
1937 : Albert Relf, cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide
1944 : Benjamin Cr‚mieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55
1945 : David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945 : Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 : Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1953 : Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
1956 : Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
1957 : Max Ophls, [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director, dies
1958 : Phil Mead, cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
1959 : Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71
1960 : Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61
1962 : Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1967 : Max Ophls, [Oppenheimer], German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies
1969 : B[runo] Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87
1969 : Gnther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66
1973 : George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
1973 : Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1973 : Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1975 : Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68
1976 : Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1979 : Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
1980 : Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1981 : Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
1981 : Tim Wall, cricketer (SA v NSW 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies
1982 : Agathe "Henri‰tte" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91
1983 : Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1986 : Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1987 : Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
1990 : International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
1990 : Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
1991 : Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1993 : Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
1993 : Roy Riegels, U of Calif football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1994 : Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41
1994 : Jan Bor, Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
1995 : Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31
1996 : (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton, football matriarch, dies at 83
1996 : David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83
1996 : Edmund S Muskie, vice pres candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81
1996 : Thomas Wakefield, writer, dies at 60

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