Famous Deaths for 4th July 2018

1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1931 – Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
1943 – Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1963 – Fritz Reutter, German composer, dies at 66
1971 – Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
1994 – Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1994 – Rupert Davies, English methodist scholar, dies at 84
1995 – Richard “Pancho” Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor, dies at 84
2009 – Brenda Joyce [Betty Graffina Leabo], American actress (Tarzan, The Rains Came), dies of complications from pneumonia at 92

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