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Hank Greenberg - 30 years

Steve Irwin - 10 years
Lee Roy Selmon - 5 years
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15 years since the death of the one time most beautiful person in the world, Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, aged 39.

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Suleiman the Magnificent, was less so, this day 450 years ago, aged 71.

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(not sure if that's a hat or the shape of his head).

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Justin Wilson (The Cajun Chef) died this day 15 years ago, I Gar-On-TEE!
(WTH we still can't post youtube videos?)

 

 

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50 years since Margaret Sanger died aged 86. There's a pun in there about birth control, death, etc but I can't find it.

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Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, was assassinated today in 1966...

 

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50th Anniversary today.

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Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, was assassinated today in 1966...

 

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50th Anniversary today.

 

Recycling, like it.

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60th anniversary of the death of cricketer (and all-round sportsman - he was also joint world-record holder in the long jump and won one cap for England at Football) C. B. Fry, also reputedly offered the throne of Albania.

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115 years since Toulouse Lautrec swapped a canvas for canvas bag, aged 36.

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Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) - 40 years.

 

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95 years ago, actress and model Virginia Rappe died a few days after attending a party at Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's hotel.

Arbuckle was accused, and subsequently acquitted, of violent sexual assault, resulting in her death, in one of Hollywood's first scandals.

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Former Chilean president Salvadore Allende committed suicide on this day in 1973, aged 65.

 

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Breaking from tradition, but 2 years ago John Gustaffson died, and took the bass line from Love Is The Drug with him.

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Former Chilean president Salvadore Allende committed suicide on this day in 1973, aged 65.

 

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Are you sure that's not Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party?

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