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Songwriter Irving Berlin died today in 1989 aged 101...

 

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Paul Newman died on this day in 2008.

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Rory Storm, of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, was found dead with his mother today in 1972...

 

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Actress, original IT girl, queen of the flappers and generous hostess to the 1927 University of South Carolina American Football squad Clara Bow, dead today in 1965.

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Harpo Marx died today in 1964...

 

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James Dean died on this date in 1955.

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And it was "Goodnight from him" five years ago today...

 

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Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated today in 1981...

 

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Clement Attlee, one of the greatest Prime Ministers of the 20th Century, died today in 1967...

 

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Today in 1967 Latin American1 revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, better known as Che, was executed by the Bolivian army.

 

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1 He was born in Argentina, but his subversive activities were in Cuba, Guatamala, Bolivia and Congo.

 

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Hein

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Orson Welles, the enfant terrible of Cinema, died 25 years ago today aged 70...

 

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Donald Dewar - Scotland's first First Minister died 10 years ago today - aged 63 years.

 

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BAFTA-winning actress Beryl Reid died today in 1996...

 

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2 Deathlist hits died on this date:

 

In 1998 it was Miss Marple actress Joan Hickson...

 

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Ten years later it was the turn of Levi Stubbs to write himself into Deathlist lore...

 

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Paul Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of all time, died today in 1984...

 

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Vidkun Quisling, the man who sold the Norwegians out to the Nazis, was executed by firing squad today in 1945, six months after the end of the war in Europe...

 

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Inventor of the helicopter, Russian born USAian Igor Sikorsky, died today in 1972, aged 83.

 

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Hein

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Steve Peregrin Took, who was part of Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan, before being sacked in 1969, died today in 1980 after choking on a cherry...

 

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Thought I'd post John Peel today, saying I should've posted it yesterday. A mistake akin to playing a record at the wrong speed!

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Saturnine English poet Ted Hughes died today in 1998...

 

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Max Linder, the pre-Chaplin Silent-era comedy star, committed suicide today in 1925...

 

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