Saturday, Feb 15, 2025
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1933 - Anton J Cermak (Mayor-Democrat-Chicago), assassinated in Miami, Florida.
1967 - William C Bullitt, first US ambassador in USSR, dies at age 76.
1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at age 76 (born 1908).
1984 - Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists.
1987 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer ("Baby I Love You"), dies at age 42.
1988 - Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at age 91.
1988 - Richard P Feynman, American physicist (Nobel Prize 1965, Physical Law), dies at age 69 (born 1918).
1991 - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at age 46 of a heart attack.
1992 - William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at age 81.
1994 - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at age 79.