Friday, Apr 19, 2024
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1968 - Tommy Bridges, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at age 61.
1973 - Death of Hans Kelsen in Berkeley, California at age 91 (born in Prague, Austria-Hungary 1881); jurist, developed the "pure theory" of law, professor in Vienna, Cologne, Geneva and Prague, judge on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920-30), taught at Harvard and University of California at Berkeley, author (Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre 1911, Allgemeine Staatslehre 1925, Reine Rechtslehre 1934, The Law of the United Nations 1950, Was ist Gerechtigkeit 1953).
1987 - Milt Kahl dies of cancer (born 1909). He worked on Walt Disney Company animation for 22 short films, and 24 feature films.
1987 - Maxwell D Taylor, US commander of 101st airborne (WWII), dies at age 85.
1993 - George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and seven others, die in a plane crash.
1997 - Death of El Duce, American singer/drummer (The Mentors) (born 1958).
2006 - Death of Scott Crossfield, American pilot (born 1921).