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25 years since Robert Maxwell did the only honourable thing in his life, aged 68.

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Fred MacMurray, actor primarily remembered for 'My Three Sons' - 25 years ago.

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Art Tatum died on this day 60 years ago:

 

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35 years ago today, historian and philosopher Will Durant died just 2 weeks after the death of his wife Ariel.

 

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Actress Gene Tierney died on this day 25 years ago:

 

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It's been 4 years since Clive Dunn died, the event that inspired me to join these forums.

 

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Tom of Finland died on this day 25 years ago:

 

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Bil Keane wrote the very popular comic strip 'The Family Circus', until 5 years ago.

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Sydney Selwyn died on this day 20 years ago:

 

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Yves Montand, who'd been feeling a bit ropy for a couple of months, died this day 25 years ago, aged 70.

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Ed Bradley died on this day 10 years ago:

 

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Helmut Schmidt died on this day 1 year ago:

 

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Ten years since Gerald Levert died aged just 40. At the time of his death he was filming a reality TV show where he and 12 fans were all losing weight in his mansion together, however clearly he didn't start dropping the pounds in time.

Question begs to be asked though: wither today's fatboy soul and R&B stars?

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Alexander Calder died on this day 40 years ago:

 

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Today in 1855, on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 34th birthday, the 'Father of Existentialism' Soren Kierkegaard got to the churchyard on time.

 

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Today in 1855, on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 34th birthday, the 'Father of Existentialism' Soren Kierkegaard got to the churchyard on time.

 

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I can take or leave Kierkegaard; in fact i'd say i'm a bit either/or.

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And, 35 years since the death of Bill Holden aged 63, by exsanguination (go on, look it up, you know you want to).

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