Famous Deaths for 26th October 2018

1749 – Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1858 – Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39
1867 – John Fawcett, English composer, dies at 77
1868 – B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
1890 – Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1916 – Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker’s Union Leader, dies at 83
1957 – Níkos Kazantzákis, prominent Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ), dies at 74
1971 – Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76
1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American biochemist (Nobel 1987), dies at 85
1993 – Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37

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