Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Who Died Today?

From the Brainy History website:

March 22, 2002 Eileen Farrell, singer, Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell, dies at 82
March 22, 2001 William Hanna, cartoon creator, The Flintstones, dies at 90
March 22, 1999 David Strickland, actor, Suddenly Susan, dies at 29
March 22, 1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81
March 22, 1996 Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
March 22, 1996 Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
March 22, 1995 Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
March 22, 1994 Dan Hartman, U.S. singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
March 22, 1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
March 22, 1994 Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
March 22, 1994 Walter Lantz, U.S. cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
March 22, 1993 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
March 22, 1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
March 22, 1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
March 22, 1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58
March 22, 1986 Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
March 22, 1979 Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
March 22, 1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
March 22, 1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of U.S. Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
March 22, 1975 Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
March 22, 1975 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73
March 22, 1974 Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
March 22, 1971 Martin Bodmer, writer, dies
March 22, 1969 Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
March 22, 1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
March 22, 1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
March 22, 1956 George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
March 22, 1953 James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
March 22, 1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
March 22, 1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
March 22, 1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
March 22, 1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
March 22, 1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
March 22, 1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
March 22, 1923 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
March 22, 1890 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
March 22, 1838 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
March 22, 1832 J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82
March 22, 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet
March 22, 1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
March 22, 1820 Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
March 22, 1777 John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
March 22, 1758 Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
March 22, 1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
March 22, 1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
March 22, 1471 George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
March 22, 337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47

Pick ANY date of the year here to see who kicked the bucket on that special date.

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