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On this day for the United States
Events
Deaths
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1914 -
George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b.
1846)
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1929 -
Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b.
1851)
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1947 -
"Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b.
1871)
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1955 -
Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1920)
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1973 -
Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (b.
1898)
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1974 -
George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b.
1904)
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1978 -
John Cazale, American actor (b.
1935)
- 1978 -
Gene Moore, American baseball player (b.
1909)
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1987 -
Woody Hayes, American football coach (b.
1913)
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1995 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (b.
1949)
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1998 -
Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b.
1893)
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1999 -
Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b.
1916)
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2001 -
Morton Downey Jr., American television talk show host (b.
1933)
- 2001 -
Robert Ludlum, American author (b.
1927)
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2003 -
Howard Fast, American author (b.
1914)
- 2003 -
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b.
1948)