Famous Deaths for 12th December 2018

1872 – Willem Anne Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1920 – Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1933 – Theodore Moses Tobani, German composer, dies at 78
1962 – Leo “Syd” Sailor, American actor (Arizona Days, Waterfront), dies from a heart attack at 67
1968 – Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
1976 – Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1985 – Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist, road manager, and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, dies of a heart attack at 47
1999 – Joseph Heller, American author (Catch-22), dies at 76
2001 – Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2017 – Pat DiNizio, American rock vocalist (The Smithereens), dies from ill health at 62

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