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German writer and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died on this day in 1832 in Weimar, aged 83.

 

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Hein

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Queen Elizabeth I of England died on this day in 1603.

PS. The above portrait was painted 7 years after her death. :deathban:

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Queen Elizabeth I of England died on this day in 1603.

PS. The above portrait was painted 7 years after her death. :D

No wonder she looks pissed.

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The 'sex thimble', Dudley Moore, died today in 2002...

 

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America and who famously came up with the phrase 'Military-Industrial Complex', died today in 1969...

 

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Paul Henreid, best known as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca,

 

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died today in 1992.

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The "Singing Nun", Jeanine Deckers, took part in a lesbian suicide pact in a lettuce field today in 1985.

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Alastair Cooke died 6 years ago today, a mere 4 weeks after retiring from his Letter From America show,

 

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aged 95.

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Enid Bagnold died this day in 1981, aged 91.

 

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She wrote National Velvet and is (was? would have been?) the great-grandmother of Samantha Cameron (wife of Prime Ministerial hopeful David).

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Surrealist painter Max Ernst died today in 1976...

 

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Georges Pompidou, President of France, dies in office today in 1974 of a rare cancer...

 

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My oh my .. has it been five years? From what I can remember, his death was one of the most anticipated of my lifetime. After years of sacrifice and dedication I often wonder how god rewarded his efforts. We're going to check on him. Generally we would never do this, but let's invade his privacy just once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh, there he is.

 

 

 

 

 

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He never got himself in the kind of trouble the current incumbant has got himself into. Mind you, he must have known too, surely?

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Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated today in 1968...

 

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Cozy Powell had his last dance with the devil this day in 1998,

 

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aged 50.

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Tammy Wynette got a D-I-V-O-R-C-E from L-I-F-E today in 1998

 

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Also on this day in 1829, Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, aged 26, died from tuberculosis.

 

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regards,

Hein

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Artist Pablo Picasso expired on this date in 1973 at the age of 91. A rational person would think his art made very little sense. 936e0e2db4aad0b7e0260eeff07b6427.jpg

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Joseph Merrick, the 'Elephant Man', died today in 1890...

 

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died today in 1945, barely a month before the end of the Second World War in Europe...

 

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Larry Parks, he of The Jolson Story, died April 13 1975, aged 60.

 

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His career stalled when it emerged he was a communist.

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15th April 1989....

 

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YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE...

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