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• 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
• 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway executive (b. 1843)
• 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French WWI aviator (b. 1894)
• 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss (b. 1868)
• 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots who died in a plane crash (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
• 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African statesman (b. 1870)
• 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
• 1958 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (b. 1874)
• 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
• 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
• 1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish textilist (b. 1904)
• 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
• 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
• 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
• 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
• 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
• 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox, (b. c. 1938)
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit. (b. 1944)
• 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
• 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
• 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, Former Lexington, KY narcotics agent turned smuggler (b. 1945)
• 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
• 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (murdered) (b. 1944)
• 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
• 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated) (b. unknown)
• 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
• 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
• 1997 - Camille Henry, hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
The Starbucks Employees’ Starbucks Records-Related On-Site Management Support Group: A support group within a support group within a micro unit of conglomerate support group within the infrastructure of support groups that support the structure of a corporation. Originally a spin-off of The Starbucks Employees’ On-site Management Support Group (itself a sub-clause of The Starbucks Employees’ Support Group and not affiliated with For The Kids Ltd), which treats those who have been the victim of repeat airings of Starbucks Records albums as a result of inconsiderate in-store disc rotation. If you’ve ever visited one you’ll know it’s not a pretty sight, with strange shaped faces singing Paul McCartney lyrics to themselves while rocking back and forth: “The things I did, I did, I did / I did, I did, I did / I did, I did, I did / When I was a kid.” Chilling. (Free coffee no longer included.)
