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Deaths on November 26

1126 : Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 : Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
1267 : Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
1504 : Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castill‰ & Aragon (1474-04), dies at 53
1651 : Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1653 : Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
1661 : Don Luis M‚ndez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63
1688 : Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1776 : Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
1778 : Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
1809 : Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 : Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
1821 : Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
1822 : Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
1854 : Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1855 : Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 : Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1866 : Adrien Fran‡ois Servais, composer, dies at 59
1866 : Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
1880 : Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
1882 : Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
1883 : Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
1885 : Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1918 : Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
1923 : Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1925 : Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
1926 : John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
1927 : Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
1928 : Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
1929 : Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
1933 : Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
1938 : Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
1939 : James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies
1943 : Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
1950 : Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
1956 : Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
1957 : Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1957 : Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
1959 : Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
1961 : Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
1962 : Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
1963 : Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
1965 : Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60
1966 : Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
1966 : Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
1968 : Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
1970 : B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1971 : Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
1973 : Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
1973 : John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
1980 : Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
1981 : Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
1982 : Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 : Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
1982 : Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 : Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
1986 : Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
1986 : Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
1987 : Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
1987 : Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
1989 : Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
1990 : David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
1991 : Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
1991 : Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
1991 : Fran‡ois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
1992 : Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
1993 : Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 : Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
1994 : Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
1994 : David Bache, designer, dies at 69
1994 : Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
1995 : Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
1995 : David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
1995 : Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
1995 : Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
1995 : Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
1996 : Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
1996 : Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
1996 : Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
1996 : Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
1996 : Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
1997 : Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62

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