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1932 - Harold "Heart" Crane, American poet (Bridge), commits suicide at age 32 by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York.

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1965 - Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies at age 57.

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1981 - Death of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1916).

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1993 - Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at age 90.

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1994 - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at age 48.

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2002 - Death of George Alec Effinger, American author (born 1947).

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