Famous Deaths for 26th February 2024

1608 – John Still, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, dies at about 64
1823 – John Philip Kemble, British actor and director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden), dies at 66
1871 – Sophia Hawthorne, American writer, painter and illustrator, dies at 61
1906 – Manuel Fernandez Caballero, Spanish composer, dies at 70
1947 – Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist and engineer (invented cathode ray tube for television), dies at 49
1963 – Artturi Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer (Kati), dies at 74
2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (Abduction, Dillinger, Reservoir Dogs), dies of pneumonia at 82
2005 – Ian Colquhoun, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests, 4 dismissals), dies at 80
2017 – Robert Allworth, Australian composer (A Different Time, A Different Place), dies at 74
2023 – Fred Shabel, American basketball coach (Connecticut Huskies 1963-67) and executive (AD University of Pennsylvania 1967-75; Comcast Spectacor), dies at 90

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