Saturday, Dec 15, 2018
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1943 - Thomas W "Fats" Waller, American jazz pianist, dies in Kansas City, Missouri at age 39.
1944 - Death of bandleader/composer Glenn Miller ("Chattanooga Choo-Choo"), at age 40, in a plane crash between London and Paris.
1966 - At 9:30 AM in St. Joseph's Hospital, Walt Disney dies of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer, at age 65. He had won more than 950 honors and citations worldwide, including 31 Oscars and seven Emmys.
1984 - Death of Jan Peerce, American tenor (born 1904).
1997 - Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at age 98.
2001 - Death of Rufus Thomas, American singer (born 1917).
2001 - Death of Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (born 1974).
2003 - Death of George Fisher, American political cartoonist (born 1923).
2007 - Death of Julia Carson, American politician (born 1938).
2009 - US television evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Newport Beach, California at age 91 from complications from pneumonia.