Famous Deaths for 23rd July 2019

1690 – Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
1773 – George Edwards, English naturalist and ornithologist (father of British ornithology), dies at 79
1909 – Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1946 – James Maxton, politician, dies
1951 – Robert Flaherty, American filmmaker and the father of documentary film (Nanook of North), dies at 67
1966 – Douglass Montgomery, American actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane), dies from spinal cancer at 56
1976 – Wilhelmina Von Bremen, American 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 64
1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor (Cimmaron), killed by helicopter crash during the filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie” at 53
2003 – James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2010 – Daniel Schorr, American broadcast journalist (CBS), dies at 93

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