| 2nd December 1814 | The Marquis de Sade dies
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| 16th August 1819 | The Peterloo Massacre
The Manchester Yeomanry mounted on horseback charge a 60,000 strong crown who had turned up at a pro-reform rally at St Peters Field, Manchester. Officially there were but a handfull of deaths although over 600 injured. It is believed that the number of dead was considerably higher. Whilst there were claims that the people were the cause it is clear that it was another case of the people with power using it to deny the ordinary folk there say. The governments response was to ban meetings of 50 or more people, flag bearing marches and introducing a newspaper tax
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| 23rd February 1821 | Poet John Keats dies
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| 5th May 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte dies
Many conspiracy theories abound from his death. The french claim his english captors did it, some claim that it was his fellow countrymen. Some have claimed that it was the arsenic in his wall paper that did the job. Personally I figure it was the guy on the grassy knoll
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| 4th July 1826 | Former US President Thomas Jefferson dies
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| 4th July 1826 | Former US President John Adams dies
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| 26th March 1827 | Composer Ludwig Von Beethoven dies
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| 8th July 1828 | Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns
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| 19th November 1828 | Composer Franz Schubert dies
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| 15th September 1830 | William Huskisson killed
Tory MP William Huskisson is run over by a train whilst at the opening of the Manchester to Liverpool railway line. You would have thought that being at the opening of a railway line might have been a big enough hint that there were trains around!
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| 10th December 1830 | Simon Bolivar dies.
Simon Bolivar was a revoltionary hero in South America fight against Spanish rule. He is credited with the liberation of Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuala and Boliva, which named it's self after him.
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| 21st September 1832 | Writer Sir Walter Scott dies
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| 25th July 1834 | Poet Samual Coleridge dies
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| 23rd September 1835 | The composer Vincenzo Bellini dies
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| 20th June 1837 | Princess Victoria becomes Queen on the death of her Uncle King William IV
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| 27th May 1840 | Violinst Niccolo Paganini dies
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| 27th June 1844 | Mormon leader Joseph Smith is murdered by a mob
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| 7th October 1849 | Author Edgar Allan Poe dies
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| 17th October 1849 | Composer Chopin dies
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| 14th September 1852 | The Duke of Wellington dies
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| 31st March 1855 | Novelist Charlotte Bronte dies
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| 14th December 1861 | Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort dies
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| 15th April 1865 | US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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| 27th April 1865 | Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is killed
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| 18th October 1865 | Former Prime Minister Lord Palmerston dies
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| 9th June 1870 | Charles Dickens dies
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| 30th April 1873 | Explorer Dr David Livingstone dies
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| 23rd December 1873 | Author William Makepeace Thackeray dies
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| 3rd June 1875 | Composer Georges Bizet dies
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| 29th August 1877 | Mormon leader Brigham Young dies
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| 7th February 1878 | Pope Pius IX dies
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| 11th November 1880 | Australian bushwacker Ned Kelly is hanged
Australias's Robin Hood, only he wasn'y Australian but Irish, didn't give to the poor and wasn't notiably merry.
For more information see :http://www.ironoutlaw.com/
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| 13th March 1881 | Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated
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| 14th July 1881 | Billy the Kid (William Bonney) is killed
The teenage wildwest legend whos image was probably bigger than the reality.
For more information see :http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/
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| 19th September 1881 | US President Garfield dies
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| 13th February 1882 | Composer Richard Wagner dies
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| 24th March 1882 | Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies
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| 3rd April 1882 | Jessie James is killed
The wildwest outlaw of film and reality
For more information see :http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/
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| 27th April 1882 | Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
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| 14th March 1883 | Karl Marx dies
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| 1st June 1885 | Writer Victor Hugo dies
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| 26th January 1886 | General Gordon of Khartoum is killed
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| 31st July 1886 | Pianist Franz Liszt dies
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| 12th December 1889 | Aurthor Robert Browning dies
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| 29th July 1890 | Vincent Van Gogh kills himself
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| 26th March 1892 | Writer Walt Whitman dies
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| 6th October 1892 | Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson dies
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| 5th August 1895 | Communist father Friedrich Engels dies
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| 19th May 1898 | Former Prime Minister William Gladstone dies
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| 25th August 1900 | Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies
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| 22nd November 1900 | Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan fame dies
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| 30th November 1900 | Poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde dies
His last words are said to have been 'Either that wallpaper goes or I do'.
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| 22nd January 1901 | Queen Victoria dies
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| 27th January 1901 | Composer Giuseppe dies
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| 9th September 1901 | Artist Toulouse-Lautrec dies
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| 14th September 1901 | US President William McKinley assassinated
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| 26th March 1902 | Cecil Rhodes dies
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| 29th September 1902 | Author Emile Zola dies
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| 8th May 1903 | Artist Paul Gauguin dies
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| 17th July 1903 | Artist James Whistler dies
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| 20th July 1903 | Pope Leo XIII dies
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| 1st May 1904 | Composer Antonin Dvorak dies
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| 9th May 1904 | Explorer Sir Henry Stanley dies
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| 15th July 1904 | Playwright Anton Chekhov dies
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| 24th March 1905 | Author Jules Verne dies
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| 19th September 1905 | Dr Barnardo of children homes fame, dies
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| 13th October 1905 | Actor Henry Irving dies
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| 19th April 1906 | Pierre Curie killed
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| 28th May 1906 | Playright Henrik Ibsen dies
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| 22nd October 1906 | Artist Paul Cezanne dies
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| 4th September 1907 | Composer Edvard Greig dies
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| 21st June 1908 | composer Rimsky-Korsakov dies
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| 21st April 1910 | Aurthor Mark Twain dies
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| 2nd September 1910 | Artist Henri Rousseau dies
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| 23rd November 1910 | Dr Crippen is hanged
The infamous wife murderer who tried to escape the country on the SS Laurentic with his mistress.
For more information see :http://www.met.police.uk/history/crippen.htm
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| 18th May 1911 | Composer Gustav Mahler dies
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| 10th February 1912 | Joseph Lister dies
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| 1st September 1912 | Composer Samual Coleridge-Taylor dies
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| 10th February 1913 | Scott of the Antarctic found dead
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| 4th June 1913 | Suffragette Emily Davison throws herself under the Kings horse during the Derby and dies
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| 20th August 1914 | Pope Pius X dies
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| 12th October 1915 | The nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans
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| 23rd October 1915 | Cricketer WG Grace dies
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| 28th February 1916 | Author Henry James dies
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| 16th June 1916 | Lord Kitchener killed
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| 16th December 1916 | Rasputin is murdered
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| 1st April 1917 | Scott Joplin dies
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| 26th September 1917 | Artist Edgar Degas dies
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| 17th November 1917 | Sculpter Auguste Rodin dies
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| 10th April 1919 | Mexican rebel Emiliano Zapata is killed
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| 5th January 1922 | Poler explorer Ernest Shackleton dies
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| 22nd January 1922 | Pope Benedict XV dies
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| 22nd August 1922 | Irish Nationalist Michael Collins is killed
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| 26th March 1923 | Actress Sarah Bernhardt dies
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| 20th July 1923 | Revolutionary Pancho Villa is killed
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| 26th August 1926 | Rudolf Valentino dies
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| 31st October 1926 | Harry Houdini dies
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| 6th December 1926 | Artist Claude Monet dies
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| 14th June 1927 | Author Jerome K Jerome dies
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| 14th September 1927 | Isadora Duncan is killed
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| 20th March 1929 | Marshal Foch dies
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| 4th April 1929 | Carl Benz dies
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| 23rd January 1930 | Ballerina Anna Pavlova dies
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| 2nd March 1930 | Author D.H. Lawrence dies
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| 19th March 1930 | Former prime minister Arthir Balfour dies
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| 7th July 1930 | Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies
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| 21st October 1931 | Inventor Thomas Edison dies
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| 23rd February 1934 | Edward Elgar dies
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| 23rd May 1934 | Gangsters Bonnie and Clyde killed by police
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| 25th May 1934 | Composer Gustav Holst dies
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| 19th May 1935 | T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) dies
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| 28th January 1939 | Poet William Yeats dies
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| 10th February 1939 | Pope Pius XI dies
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| 11th February 1940 | Author John Buchan dies
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| 21st August 1940 | Leon Trotsky murdered
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| 6th January 1941 | Air ace Amy Johnson drowned in the Thames Estuary
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| 8th January 1941 | Founder of the boy scouts Robert Baden-Powell dies
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| 13th January 1941 | James Joyce dies
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| 28th March 1941 | Author Virginia Woolf commits suicide
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| 28th March 1943 | Composer Sergei Rachmaninov dies
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| 15th December 1943 | Jazz pianist Fats Waller dies
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| 22nd December 1943 | Beatrix Potter dies
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| 19th August 1944 | Conductor Sir Henry Wood dies
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| 14th October 1944 | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, commits suicide
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| 26th March 1945 | Lloyd George dies
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| 12th April 1945 | US President Franklin D Roosevelt dies
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| 28th April 1945 | Italian dictator Benito Mussalino executed by partisans
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| 1st May 1945 | Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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| 26th September 1945 | Composer Bela Bartok dies
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| 24th November 1945 | Quisling is executed
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| 4th November 1947 | Composer Felix Mendelssohn dies
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| 21st January 1950 | Death of George Orwell
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| 6th February 1952 | Death of King George IV
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| 26th July 1952 | Eve Peron dies
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| 28th January 1953 | Death of Derek Bentley
Controversly Derek Bentley was executed for the murder of a police officer. The conviction was quoshed in 1998
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| 24th March 1953 | Death of Queen Mary
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| 11th March 1955 | Death of Sir Alexander Fleming
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| 18th April 1955 | Albert Einstein dies
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| 30th September 1955 | James Dean killed
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| 3rd February 1959 | Death of Richie Valens
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| 3rd February 1959 | Death of Buddy Holly
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| 16th November 1960 | Outspoken TV Personality Gilbert Harding dies
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| 6th March 1961 | Death of George Formby
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| 18th September 1961 | UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold killed in air crash
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| 5th August 1962 | Marilyn Munroe found dead
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| 18th January 1963 | Death of Hugh Gaitskell
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| 24th November 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald murdered
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| 27th May 1964 | Indias first and current prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies
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| 24th January 1965 | Death of Winston Churchchill
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| 21st February 1965 | Death of Malcolm X
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| 4th January 1967 | Death of Donald Campbell
Donald Campbell died whilst attempting to beat his own world water speed record on Lake Coniston
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| 27th August 1967 | Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles dies
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| 9th October 1967 | Che Guevara killed
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| 4th April 1968 | Martin Luther King assassinated
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| 7th April 1968 | World racing champion Jim Clark killed in crash at Hockenheim
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| 5th June 1968 | Robert Kennedy assassinated
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| 9th August 1969 | Sharon Tate murdered
Star of the Valley of the Dolls and wife of Roman Polanski she was a victim of the infamouse Manson Family murders.
For more information see :http://www.sharontate.net/home.html
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| 18th September 1970 | Jimi Hendrix dies
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| 22nd April 1971 | Dictator of Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier dies
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| 3rd July 1971 | Doors lead singer Jim Morrison dies
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| 28th August 1972 | Prince William of Gloucester killed in plance crash
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| 8th April 1973 | Pablo Picasso dies
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| 1st December 1973 | David Ben-Gurion dies
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| 20th December 1973 | Spanish Prime Minister murdered
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| 7th March 1975 | Kidnapped heiress Lesley Whittle found dead
Lesley was kidnapped and held for £50,000 ransom by Donald Neilson. However things went wrong and he eventually murdered her.
For more information see :http://www.answers.com/topic/lesley-whittle
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| 25th March 1975 | King Faisal of Saudia Arabia assassinated
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| 29th November 1975 | Former motor racing champion Graham Hill killed in air crash
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| 4th December 1976 | Benjamin Britten dies
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| 17th January 1977 | Death of Gary Gilmore
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed in Salt Lake City. He was the first person to be executed since capital punishment had been suspended in 1967
For more information see :http://gary-gilmore.biography.ms/
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| 16th August 1977 | Elvis Presley dies
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| 12th September 1977 | Steve Biko dies in police custody in South Africa
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| 16th September 1977 | Mark Bolan the leader singer of T-Rex is killed
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| 25th December 1977 | Charlie Chaplin dies
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| 22nd August 1978 | President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya dies
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| 29th September 1978 | Pope John Paul I dies
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| 2nd February 1979 | Death of Sid Vicious
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| 30th March 1979 | MP Airey Neave killed by car bomb
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| 27th August 1979 | Lord Mountbatten murder by IRA bomb
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| 8th December 1980 | John Lennon murdered
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| 5th May 1981 | IRA Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies
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| 12th May 1981 | IRA hunger striker Francis Hughes dies
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| 6th October 1981 | President Sadat of Egypt assassinated
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| 14th September 1982 | Princess Grace of Monaco dies
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| 21st August 1983 | Opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated in Manila
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| 17th April 1984 | WPC Yvonne Fletcher shot from Libyan embassy
Whilst controling a small demonstration outside the Libyan embassy shots were fired from inside the embassy killing the policewoman. The Libyans claimed diplomatic immunity and where allowed to leave the embassy. There are times when diplomacy is not the best approach and this was clearly one of them.
For more information see :http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1078819,00.html
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| 4th January 1986 | Death of Phil Lynott
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| 28th February 1986 | Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme assasinated
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| 29th December 1986 | Former prime minister Harold MacMillan dies
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| 17th August 1987 | Former Deputy Furher Rodulf Hess commits suicide
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| 25th December 1989 | Nicolae Ceausescu, former leader of Rumania executed along with his wife
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| 21st May 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
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| 5th November 1991 | Crooked publisher Robert Maxwell dies
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| 24th November 1991 | Freddy Mercury dies
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| 8th April 1994 | Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain found dead
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| 1st May 1994 | World Formula 1 Champion Ayton Senna killed during the San Marino Grand Prix
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| 12th May 1994 | Labour party leader John Smith Dies
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| 2nd September 1994 | Roy Castle dies
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| 17th March 1995 | Death of Ronnie Kray
Ronnie and Reggie Kray along with there older and dimmer brother, Charlie, were responsible for the organised crime in the east of London since the fifties. They were noted for the ruthlessness and their brutality.
For more information see :http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/kray%20reggie.htm
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| 10th November 1995 | Human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in Nigeria
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| 15th July 1997 | Fashion designer Gianni Versace murdered
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| 31st August 1997 | Princess Diana killed in car crash
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| 5th September 1997 | Mother Teresa dies
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| 22nd November 1997 | Lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence commits suicide
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| 15th April 1998 | Pol Pot dies
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| 12th March 1999 | Death of Yehudi Menuhin
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| 21st March 1999 | Death of Ernie Wise
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| 30th March 2002 | The Queen mother dies
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| 12th January 2003 | Death of Maurice Gibb
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| 23rd January 2003 | Actress Nell Carter dies
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| 18th July 2003 | Dr David Kelly found dead
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| 27th July 2003 | Bob Hope dies
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| 16th August 2003 | Former dictator Idi Amin dies
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| 12th September 2003 | Jonny Cash dies
US Country singer who recorded over 1000 songs over 45 years.
For more information see :http://www.johnnycash.com/Cashcareer.htm
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| 13th January 2004 | Death of Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman Britains worse ever serial killer is found hanged in his cell. No one shed a tear.
For more information see :http://www.nhi.clara.net/shipman0.htm
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| 23rd April 2005 | Actor John Mill dies
Legendary British actor and star of numerious films including Ice Cold in Alex, In which we serve and Ryans Daughter.
For more information see :http://www.britishpictures.com/stars/Mills.htm
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