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| | Biographies |
Abrams, Creighton
Adams, John
Agnew, Spiro
Armstrong, Lance
Arthur, Chester Alan
Booth, John Wilkes
Bowie, Jim
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Brando, Marlon
Brown, John
Buckner, Bolivar
Burton, Cliff
Callas, Maria
Capote, Truman
Carol, Sue
Carpenter, Karen
Celebrezze, Anthony
Clinton, William Jefferson Bill
Colby, William Egan
Coolidge, Calvin
Crocket, Davy
De Lorean, John
Dewey, Peter
Ford, Henry
Garfield, James Abram
Halliday, Brett
Harding, Warren Gamaliel
Harrison, William Henry
Heller, Joseph
Hellman, Lillian
Helms, Chet
Hemingway, Ernest Miller
Hendrix, John Allen
Holly, Buddy
Hughes, Howard
Hunt, Everette Howard
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall"
Jefferson, Thomas
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Robert Francis
Kennedy, Rosemary
Kerouac, Jack
King, Martin Luther
Kobain, Kurt Donald
Lincoln, Abraham
Liston, Sonny
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Louis, Joe
MacArthur, Douglas
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Matthau, Walter
McAuliffe, Christa
McKinley, William
McNair, Barbara
Miller, Glenn
Mohrenschildt, George de
Morrison, James Douglas "Jim"
Morrison, Norman
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Owens, James Cleveland "Jesse"
Parker, Tom
Parks, Rosa
Patton, George Smith
Peckinpah, Sam
Pitney, Gene
Poe, Edgar Allen
Presley, Elvis Aaron
Quarry, Jerry
Reading, Otis
Remick, Lee
Rogers, William
Ruby, Jack
Sagan, Carl Edward
Shaw, Artie
Simpson, Wallis
Sinatra, Frank
Steinbeck, John Ernst
Stuart, James Ewell Brown
Taft, William Howard
Taylor, Zacharay
Tracey, Spencer
Valens, Ritchie
Vandross, Luther
Walker, Walton
Wayne, John
Weissmuller, Johny
Wells, Mary
Wilson, Carl
Wilson, Dennis
Wright, Orville
X, Malcolm
Zappa, Frank Vincent
Zimmerman, Robert Allen
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Acapulco
Alamo, The
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Ketchum
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Ljungby
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| | 1826 | Adams, John | |
| 4th July Death of John Adams |
| 1826 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| 4th July Death of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1836 | Bowie, Jim | |
| 24th Feb Alamo, The Death of Jim Bowie, killed during the battle of the Alamo |
| 1836 | Crocket, Davy | |
| 24th Feb Alamo, The Death of Davy Crocket, killed at the battle of the Alamo |
| 1841 | Harrison, William Henry | |
| Death of William Henry Harris on, after 1 month in office |
| 1849 | Poe, Edgar Allen | |
| 7th Oct Death of Edgar Allen Poe, age of 40 |
| 1850 | Taylor, Zacharay | |
| Death of Zacharay Taylor, dies of a stroke while in office |
| 1859 | Brown, John | |
| Hanged for capturing a Government arsenal |
| 1862 | Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" | |
| 2nd May Chance'ville Killed at the battle of Chancellorsville by one of his own soldiers in the confusion |
| 1863 | Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" | |
| 10th May Accidentally killed by one of his soldier's bullets |
| 1864 | Stuart, James Ewell Brown | |
| 11th May Death of James Ewell Brown, killed in battle |
| 1865 | Booth, John Wilkes | |
| April Death of John Wilkes Booth, shot in a barn refusing to surrender |
| 1865 | Lincoln, Abraham | |
| 15th April Washington Death of Abraham Lincoln, assassinated |
| 1881 | Garfield, James Abram | |
| 19th Sep Elberon Death of James Abram Garfield, dies from gunshot wounds fired by Charles Guiteau |
| 1886 | Arthur, Chester Alan | |
| 18th Nov Death of Chester Alan Arthur |
| 1901 | McKinley, William | |
| 14th Sep Death of William McKinley, of gangrene after assassination attempt |
| 1923 | Coolidge, Calvin | |
| 2nd Aug Death of Warren Harding, succeeds to the presidency |
| 1923 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| 2nd Aug Washington Death of Warren Harding |
| 1930 | Taft, William Howard | |
| 8th Mar Death of William Taft |
| 1933 | Coolidge, Calvin | |
| 5th Jan Death of Calvin Coolidge |
| 1944 | Miller, Glenn | |
| 15th Dec Death of Glenn Miller, disappears over the Channel |
| 1945 | Buckner, Bolivar | |
| 19th June Okinawa Death of Bolivar Buckner at the battle of Okinawa while inspecting the 8th Marines |
| 1945 | Dewey, Peter | |
| 26th Sep Saigon Death of Peter Dewey, 1st American to die in Vietnam |
| 1945 | Patton, George Smith | |
| 21st Dec Death of George Smith Patton |
| 1946 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Death of William Blythe, Bill Clinton's father, before Bill Clinton's birth |
| 1947 | Ford, Henry | |
| 7th April Dearborn Death of Henry Ford |
| 1948 | Wright, Orville | |
| 30th Jan Death of Orville Wright |
| 1950 | Walker, Walton | |
| 23rd Dec Death of Walton Walker, killed in a jeep accident |
| 1959 | Holly, Buddy | |
| Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richards on) are killed when a plane Buddy Holly had chartered from Mason City, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota crashes in a corn field |
| 1959 | Valens, Ritchie | |
| 2nd Feb Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richards on) are killed when a plane Buddy Holly had chartered from Mason City, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota crashes in a corn field |
| 1961 | Hemingway, Ernest Miller | |
| 2nd July Ketchum Death of Ernest Miller Hemingway, suicide |
| 1963 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, assassinated |
| 1963 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated |
| 1964 | MacArthur, Douglas | |
| Death of Douglas MacArthur |
| 1965 | Morrison, Norman | |
| 2nd Nov Pentagon Death of Norman Morris on, suicide |
| 1965 | X, Malcolm | |
| 21st Feb New York Death of Malcolm X, assassinated |
| 1967 | Reading, Otis | |
| 10th Dec Death of Otis Reading |
| 1967 | Ruby, Jack | |
| 9th Jan Death of Jack Ruby, from a blood clot in the lungs |
| 1967 | Tracey, Spencer | |
| 10th June Death of Spencer Tracey |
| 1967 | Zimmerman, Robert Allen | |
| 3rd Oct Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan makes his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968. |
| 1968 | Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| 5th June Los Angeles Assassinated in a hotel after leaving a primary victory celebration |
| 1968 | King, Martin Luther | |
| 4th April Memphis Shot dead while stepping out onto a motel room balcony in Memphis |
| 9th April Memphis A crowd of 300,000 attend Martin Luther King's funeral |
| 1968 | Steinbeck, John Ernst | |
| 20th Dec Death of John Ernst Steinbeck |
| 1969 | Kerouac, Jack | |
| 21st Oct Death of Jack Kerouac |
| 1970 | Hendrix, John Allen | |
| 18th Sep London Jimi Hendrix is found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent |
| 18th Sep London Spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking nine Vesperax sleeping pills, then asphyxiating on his own vomit |
| 1970 | Liston, Sonny | |
| 30th Dec Death of Sonny Liston |
| 1971 | Liston, Sonny | |
| 5th Jan Liston was at the end of his fighting career when he is found dead by his wife in their Las Vegas home, the time of death was placed as six to eight days prior to that |
| 1971 | Morrison, James Douglas "Jim" | |
| 3rd July Death of James Douglas "Jim" Morris on |
| 1974 | Abrams, Creighton | |
| 4th Sep Death of Creighton Abrams |
| 1976 | Hughes, Howard | |
| 5th April Houston Death of Howard Hughes , en route by private jet to a hospital in Houston |
| 1977 | Callas, Maria | |
| Paris Death of Maria Callas |
| 1977 | Halliday, Brett | |
| 4th Feb Death of Brett Halliday, American writer |
| 1977 | Mohrenschildt, George de | |
| 29th Mar Death of George de Mohrenschildt, commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a shotgun |
| 1977 | Presley, Elvis Aaron | |
| 16th Aug Memphis Death of Elvis Aaron Presley, at his mansion in Memphis |
| 1979 | Wayne, John | |
| 11th June Los Angeles Death of John Wayne, age 72 |
| 1980 | Owens, James Cleveland "Jesse" | |
| 31st Mar Tucson Death of James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens |
| 1981 | Bradley, Omar Nelson | |
| 8th April Death of Omar Nelson Bradley |
| 1981 | Louis, Joe | |
| 12th April Death of Joe Louis |
| 1983 | Carol, Sue | |
| 4th Feb Death of Sue Carol |
| 1983 | Carpenter, Karen | |
| 4th Feb Death of Karen Carpenter, heart attack caused by anorexia nervosa |
| 1983 | Wilson, Dennis | |
| Death of Dennis Wilson |
| 1984 | Capote, Truman | |
| 25th Aug Hollywood Death of Truman Capote |
| 1984 | Hellman, Lillian | |
| 30th June Death of Lillian Hellman |
| 1984 | Peckinpah, Sam | |
| 28th Dec Death of Sam Peckinpah |
| 1984 | Weissmuller, Johny | |
| 20th Jan Acapulco Death of Johny Weissmuller |
| 1985 | Lodge, Henry Cabot | |
| 26th Feb Beverly Death of Henry Cabot Lodge |
| 1986 | Burton, Cliff | |
| 27th Sep Ljungby During the European leg of their Damage Inc. tour, Cliff Burton dies near Ljungby, Sweden when Metallica's tour bus skids off an icy road |
| 1986 | McAuliffe, Christa | |
| 28th Jan Cape Canaveral Death of Chris ta McAuliffe, on Challenger when it explodes 74 seconds after lift-off |
| 1986 | Simpson, Wallis | |
| 24th April Death of Wallis Simpson |
| 1991 | Remick, Lee | |
| 2nd July Los Angeles Actress Lee Remick (55) dies in Los Angeles of cancer |
| 1992 | Wells, Mary | |
| 26th July Death of Mary Wells |
| 1993 | Zappa, Frank Vincent | |
| 4th Dec Death of Frank Vincent Zappa |
| 1994 | Kobain, Kurt Donald | |
| 5th April Death of Kurt Donald Kobain |
| 1995 | Armstrong, Lance | |
| Wins the 18th stage of the Tour de France after his teammate and friend Fabio Casartelli is killed in a descent during the 15th stage of that same Tour |
| 1996 | Agnew, Spiro | |
| 17th Sep Death of Spiro Agnew |
| 1996 | Colby, William Egan | |
| 27th April Death of William Egan Colby |
| 1996 | Sagan, Carl Edward | |
| 20th Dec Death of Carl Edward Sagan |
| 1997 | Parker, Tom | |
| 21st Jan Las Vegas Death of Tom Parker |
| 1998 | Celebrezze, Anthony | |
| 29th Oct Death of Anthony Celebrezze |
| 1998 | Sinatra, Frank | |
| Death of Frank Sinatra |
| 1998 | Wilson, Carl | |
| Death of Carl Wilson, the Beach Boys officially break up shortly after Carl Wilson's death |
| 1999 | Heller, Joseph | |
| 12th Dec Death of Joseph Heller |
| 1999 | Quarry, Jerry | |
| 3rd Jan Death of Jerry Quarry |
| 2000 | Matthau, Walter | |
| 1st July Death of Walter Matthau |
| 2001 | Rogers, William | |
| 2nd Jan Death of William Rogers |
| 2004 | Brando, Marlon | |
| 1st July Los Angeles Death of Marlon Brando |
| 2004 | Shaw, Artie | |
| Death of Artie Shaw |
| 2005 | De Lorean, John | |
| 19th Mar New Jersey Death of John De Lorean |
| 2005 | Helms, Chet | |
| 1st July Death of Chet Helms |
| 2005 | Kennedy, Rosemary | |
| 7th Jan Death of Rosemary Kennedy, elder sister of JF Kennedy |
| 2005 | Parks, Rosa | |
| 25th Oct Montgomery American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement |
| 2005 | Vandross, Luther | |
| 1st July Death of Luther Vandross |
| 2006 | Pitney, Gene | |
| 5th May Cardiff Death of Gene Pitney, found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff |
| 2007 | Hunt, Everette Howard | |
| 18th Oct Miami Death of Everette Howard Hunt |
| 2007 | Mailer, Norman Kingsley | |
| 10th Nov Death of Norman Kings ley Mailer |
| 2007 | McNair, Barbara | |
| 4th Feb Death of Barbara McNair, American singer and actress |
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