Famous Deaths for 15th July 2018

1085 – Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, dies at 70
1381 – John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged
1738 – Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1789 – Jacques Duphly, French composer and harpsichordist, dies at 74
1868 – William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies
1915 – Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
1960 – Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1960 – Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63
1993 – David Brian, American actor (Accused of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco), dies at 78
2000 – Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)

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