Famous Deaths for 9th August 2018

1862 – Charles S Winder, Confederate General killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain VA, at 32
1942 – Edith Stein, German philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), dies at 50
1960 – Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, American botanist and pioneer researcher on heredity in fungi, dies at 88
1965 – Creighton Hale, Irish actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East), dies at 76
1974 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
1991 – Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
1996 – Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65
2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2000 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt’s Wafd Party, dies at 88
2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer, dies of liver cancer at 57

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