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Nikita Khrushchev died on this day in 1971, followed by Salvador Allende exactly two years later.

 

Sept 11th isn't really a good day for capitalists or communists.

 

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Just as I was about to post about Allende...

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Only fair having flagged up Basil Rathbone, I shall mention that perhaps the definitve Sherlock Holmes on the small screen, Jeremy Brett, died

today in 1995...

 

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died today in 1852...

 

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This photograph is one of the earliest surviving portraits in the World..

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died today in 1852...

 

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This photograph is one of the earliest surviving portraits in the World..

Never seen that, thanks for posting it MIB.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died today in 1852...

 

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This photograph is one of the earliest surviving portraits in the World..

 

I believe LFN took that photograph on his Kodak Brownie.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington died today in 1852...

 

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This photograph is one of the earliest surviving portraits in the World..

 

I believe LFN took that photograph on his Kodak Brownie.

Bastard! :(

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Marc Bolan died on this day in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday...

 

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Marc Bolan died on this day in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday...

 

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As did Maria Callas (though somewhat older and involving fewer girlfriends, trees and cars)

 

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Paula Yates, bastard child of Hughie Green and mother of Peaches Geldof, died of a drugs overdose today in 2000...

 

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September 18 1970

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Former Monkees Support Act, Jimi Hendrix

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The baseball player Leonard Koenecke died on this day in 1935, aged 31. He was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by a flight attendant after going beserk and attacking the pilot of a small plane he had chartered.

 

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20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield dies on this day in 1881, two months after being shot...

 

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Former Brighton & Hove Albion Boss

 

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Brian Clough. 20-9-2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, he also managed some club called Nottingham Forest with some success too

 

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Florence Griffith Joyner, who still hold the World Record in the 100m & 200m for women, died 11 years ago today,

just ten years after setting those records...

 

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King Edward II of England is said to have met his unfortunate end on this day in 1327.

 

"While lying in on a bed [the king] was suddenly seized and, while a great mattress... weighed him down and suffocated him, a plumber's iron, heated intensely hot, was introduced through a tube into his anus so that it burned the inner portions beyond the intestines". — Thomas de la Moore.

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Marcel Marceau, 22 September 2007

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Sigmund Freud, the founding father of Psychoanalysis, died today in 1939...

 

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I wonder what he's make of the cigar motif?

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John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, died on this day in 1980 after consuming some 40 shots of whiskey...

 

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I'm of the thinking that 1980 was a classic year for celebrity death...

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Jazz pioneer Miles Davis died on this day in 1991...

 

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Bill Shankly, founder of the Liverpool dynasty of success, died today in 1981...

 

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The baseball player Leonard Koenecke died on this day in 1935, aged 31. He was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by a flight attendant after going beserk and attacking the pilot of a small plane he had chartered.

 

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Isn't this Russ Abbott? :lol:

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Isn't this Russ Abbott? :lol:

 

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Isn't this Russ Abbott? :lol:

 

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Nah, this is Russ Abbott.

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Actor James Dean died in a car crash today in 1955, aged just 24...

 

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And is it me or has Dean's iconic status just dimmed a bit in the last decade or so?

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Actor James Dean died in a car crash today in 1955, aged just 24...

 

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And is it me or has Dean's iconic status just dimmed a bit in the last decade or so?

I should imagine that most of the youth of today don't know who he is. And I didn't think he was that good anyway, a tad overrated.

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