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Well, the death anniversary list is certainly bigger than the birthday one was, today. That’s unusual. Today we start back in 1556 with the death of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus. Moving on, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, was executed by the Spanish in 1811. In 1875 Andrew Johnson, our 17th president, dies in Tennessee at the age of 66 . Then, in 1964, we lose Jim Reeves.
In 1981 General Omar Torrijos, the leader of Panama, dies in a nasty plane crash . And that pretty much sums up the death and destruction for today.

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Okay, here we are on this last day of July. Today, we start out way back in 1803 with the birth of John Ericsson . who built the USS Monitor.
You remember the Monitor and Merrimac story, right? No? Look it up:) From there, we skip all the way to 1951 when Evonne Goolagong Cawley was born. Unfortunately, that is pretty much all I see that is worth talking about. Bunch of soap opera stars I never heard of, a few politicians that don’t even sound THAT familiar, that’s all thats left.

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Well, for once, we don’t have much on the calendar for today. Charles McGraw passed away in 1980, Howard Deitz, MGM executive, died at 86 of Parkinson’s disease in 1986, and in 1983 Lynn Fontanne, Broadway’s premier actress, dies at 95 . That, believe it or not, is all we have to offer.

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We start off the day in 1818 with Emily Bronte, author of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Henry Ford appeared in 1863, and Casey Stengel followed in 1890. Edd "Kookie" Byrnes was born in 1933, Paul Anka in 1941, David Sanborn in 1945, Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1947, and Delta Burke in 1956. That will pretty much do it for today. Tune in tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel.

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Try to hire a hooker, wind up as a chicken. The judge says he doesn’t want a chicken ranch in his city…..hey, what does he have against Dolly Parton?

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Though you will not find it on any other list, the single most noted death for this date in history is that of Raymond M. Taylor who passed away on this date in 1996. Good night, Dad. I love you.

Runners Up:

1030 King Olav Haraldsson of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad

1164 King Olaf of Norway, dies

1890 Vincent Van Gogh dies in Auvers, France

1900 Umberto I Italian king assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci

1960 Richard Simon cofounder of Simon & Shuster, dies

1974 Cass Elliot singer of Mamas & Papas chokes to death at 30 in London

1982 Harold Sakata actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62

1983 David Niven actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73

1983 Luis Bu¤uel movie director, dies at 83 of cirrhosis of liver

1983 Raymond Massey actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, Calif at 86

1984 Fred Waring orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84

1984 Woodrow Parfey actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack

1985 James F Nolan actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69

1988 Ellin Berlin (MacKay) Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86

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There are an incredible lot of these today, so I am just going to give you the list and let YOU decide who is worthy of note.

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) 18

61 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt

1869 Booth Tarkington US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)

1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin the mad Russian monk

1878 Don Marquis Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel)

1883 Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43)

1887 Sigmund Romberg Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)

1892 William Powell actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)

1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi Poland, physicist (explored atom-Nobel-1944)

19– David Sederholm Phila Pa, actor (Bill Hayes-Ryan’s Hope)

19– Evan Rogers Northampton Mass, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)

19– Jack Blessing Balt Md, actor (Chip Frye-Small & Frye)

19– Jeanetta Arnette Wash DC, actress (Bernadette-Head of the Class)

19– John Sykes rocker (Sleep Relaxation)

19– Paul Sylvan NYC, actor (Woody-Busting Loose)

1900 Don Redman Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)

1900 Eyvind Johnson Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)

1905 Clara Bow silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid)

1905 Dag Hammarskj”ld 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)

1905 Thelma Todd actress (Dangerous Female, Devil’s Brother)

1907 Melvin Belli Sonora Calif, lawyer, SF’s "King of Torts"

1913 Stephen McNally NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)

1914 "Professor Irwin Corey comedian (Car Wash)

1921 Richard Egan SF Calif, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)

1924 Lloyd Bochner Toronto, (Cecil-Dynasty, Lonely Lady, Naked Gun 2«)

1924 Robert Horton LA Calif, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)

1925 Mikis Theodorakis Chios Greece, composer (Raven)

1926 Russel Firestone polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)

1930 Paul Taylor dancer & choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company)

1932 Nancy Kassebaum (Sen-R-Ks)

1933 Robert Fuller Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)

1935 Peter Schreier Meissen Germany, tenor (Dressden State Opera 1961)

1936 Elizabeth Dole US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)

1938 Peter Jennings Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)

1941 David Warner Manchester NH, actor (Holocaust)

1943 Roz Kelly Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)

1946 Neal Doughty keyboardist (REO)

1950 Radu Voina Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)

1951 Leslie Easterbrook LA Calif, actress (Ryan’s Hope, Police Acadamy 5)

1953 Geddy Lee lead singer (Rush-Tom Sawyer)

1959 Gary Springer NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)

1959 Nelli Kim USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976)

1963 Alexandra Paul NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)

1964 Lisa Peluso actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava Alden Rescott-Loving)

1972 Wil Wheaton actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)

1973 Stephen Dorff Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)

1973 Wanya Morris [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)

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W start off the day on a cheery note wit the 1540 execution of Thomas Cromwell. Then we move on to 1655 and the death of Cyrano de Bergerac, and, just between you and me, I always thought that was a fictional character. In 1759m we lose the great Johann Sebastian Bach, and that is pretty much it for today….but that’s more thn enough, isn’t it?

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Beatrix Potter, who was born in 1866, gives us a pretty good start this morning. Rudy Vallee joined the world population in 1901, and Earl S Tupper, the inventor of Tupperware, came along in 1907. Vivian VanceNext is Vivian Vance, also born in 1907, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis(whew) came along in 1929. 1945 brought us Jim Davis, 1947 brought Sally Struthers, and that pretty much is a wrap for today.

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I walked into the room the other day and found my seventeen year old daughter waddling around the room in front of her sisters, elbows bent, hands up near her shoulders, and her hands, JUST her hands, were flapping ninety miles an hour. She was making a funny gurgling noise. Oh no, I thought. This is it. We put too much presure on her and she’s gone insane. How can I afford a therapist to fix this? No, wait. We’re good parents. It must be drugs. But the high cost of drug rehabilitation will break us!

Then my daughter noticed me and sheepishly explained tht she was being…a penguin. Um, okay. Maybe we DO need that therapist:. She didn’t look ANYTHING like a penguin.

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