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114 years ago today, Alois Hitler shuffled off this moral coil. His son would go on to have slightly more fame.

 

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50 years since Donald Campbell's shoes broke the water speed record, aged 45.

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Peggy Bacon died on this day 30 years ago:

 

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It's been 6 years since Gerry Rafferty went right down the flatline, aged 63.

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20 years since composer and lyricist Burton Lane died on a clear day and left us forever, aged 84.

 

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Cornelius Vanderbilt - 145 years

Harry Helmsley, the original Donald Trump and husband to Leona - 20 years

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Ernest Shackleton died on this day 95 years ago:

 

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I'll have a P Bob....... Bob... Bob Holness 5 years ago, aged 83.

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Louis Braille died on this day 165 years ago:

 

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Herbert Chapman took the important first step towards haunting the corridors at Highbury today in 1934:

 

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Magnus Magnusson's doom was no longer impending as he, er, passed 10 years ago today

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You could say he'd started, so he finished.

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480 years ago Henry VIII's first wife Catherine of Aragon died today.

She was 50.

 

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Richard Hunt died on this day 25 years ago:

 

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Hirohito met his maker 28 years ago today

 

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Nikola Tesla transmitted his last 73 years ago.

 

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Melvin Calvin died on this day 20 years ago:

 

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Galileo Galilei died on this day whilst under house arrest, 375 years ago.

 

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5 years since the architect John Madin died.

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45 years since Kenneth Patchen would no longer See You in the Morning, aged 60.

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Edith Bouvier Beale, first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died on this day 15 years ago:

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Wayne Munn, aka "Big Munn", died from liver failure today in 1931 at the age of 34. Despite only wrestling for two years, he was the ninth NWA World Heavyweight Champion, beating Ed "Strangler" Lewis in a worked match. He was then beaten by Stanislaus Zbyszko in a double-cross 97 days later, in arguably pro-wrestling's first great swerve.

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in arguably pro-wrestling's first great swerve.

 

No love for Hackenschmidt/Gotch 1911?

 

(Davey Meltzer thinks the Gotch matches were legit, btw, or at least did at one point...)

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