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Deaths on November 25

1120 : Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowns
1120 : William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17
1185 : Lucius III, [Ubaldo Allucingoli], Italian Pope (1181-85), dies
1456 : Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
1640 : Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
1750 : Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77
1755 : Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76
1773 : Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66
1815 : Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70
1830 : Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56
1854 : John G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60
1865 : Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies
1883 : Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76
1885 : Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27
1885 : Thomas A Hendricks, 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
1887 : Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
1893 : Joseph W Krutch, US naturalist (Was Europe a Success?), dies
1895 : Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
1899 : Robert Lowry, composer, dies at 73
1901 : Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
1913 : Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1914 : Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79
1923 : Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83
1923 : Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies
1935 : Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72
1941 : Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies
1944 : Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78
1948 : Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
1949 : Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1951 : Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
1952 : Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72
1952 : Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71
1958 : Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1959 : G‚rard Philipe, French actor (El Cid, Don Carlos), dies at 36
1964 : Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90
1967 : Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
1968 : Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93
1968 : Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89
1968 : Upton B Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90
1970 : Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1971 : Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 84
1972 : Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
1973 : Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45
1974 : Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26
1974 : Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives), dies at 61
1974 : [Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
1975 : Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies
1977 : Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65
1980 : George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
1981 : Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
1982 : Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73
1987 : Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92
1987 : Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1989 : Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies
1989 : Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
1990 : Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
1991 : Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies
1991 : Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86
1993 : Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
1993 : Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77
1994 : Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79
1994 : Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
1995 : Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92
1996 : Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79
1996 : Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86
1996 : Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87
1997 : Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54
1997 : Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62
1997 : Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/Pres of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies

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