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1943 - Richard Sears, first to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at age 81.

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1947 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (Ford cars), dies.

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1981 - Omar Bradley, last American five-star General, dies in New York at age 88.

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1985 - Death of J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (born 1897).

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1987 - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WWI, WWII, Korea) dies at age 90.

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1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at age 96 (born 1897).

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