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1862 - Death of William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln at age 11 at the US White House in Washington, D.C., likely of typhoid fever from contaminated drinking water; son of US President Abraham Lincoln.

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1936 - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at age 67.

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1961 - Percy Aldridge Grainger; Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at age 78.

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1966 - Chester W Nimitz, US Admiral (WWII), dies at age 80.

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1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at age 80.

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1976 - Death of Louis Eliasberg, Senior; only person to complete, in 1950, a collection of all known Unites States coins by date and mint mark.

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1980 - Death of Alice Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter, wife of Nicholas Longworth, at age 96 in Washington, DC (born 1884).

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1985 - Clarence Nash, the voice of Disney's Donald Duck for over 50 years, dies of leukemia (born 1904).

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1992 - Dick York, American actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at age 63 (born 1928).

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1999 - Death of Gene Siskel, American film critic (born 1946).

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