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Post N° 388

139,356 People
Unusual Deaths in 1981

• A
  25-year-old dutch woman studying in paris, ren�e hartevelt, was killed
  and eaten by a classmate, issei sagawa, when he invited her to dinner
  for a literary conversation. the killer was declared unfit to stand
  trial and extradited back to japan, where he was released from custody
  within fifteen months.
• Carl mccunn, in
  march 1981, paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the
  coleen river in alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for
  the pilot to pick him up again in august. rather than starve, mccunn
  shot himself in the head. his body was found in february 1982.
• Boris
  sagal, a motion picture-director, died while shooting the tv miniseries
  world war iii when he walked into the tail-rotor blade of a helicopter
  and was decapitated.

• 2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler
• 2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck)
• 2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress
• 2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer
• 2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna
• 2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
• 2001 - Henry Lee Lucas of heart failure major serial killer, 63 years old
• 1999 - Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano
• 1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director
• 1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist
• 1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer
• 1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist
• 1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
• 1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine
• 1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player
• 1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor
• 1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist
• 1988 - John Holmes, American porn star
• 1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist
• 1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate
• 1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer
• 1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer
• 1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician
• 1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician
• 1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim
• 1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver
• 1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal
• 1949 - Henri Giraud, French general
• 1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author
• 1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney
• 1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual
• 1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress
• 1918 - César Cui, Russian composer
• 1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient
• 1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist
• 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
• 1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him
• 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia
• 1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player
• 1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman
• 1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor
• 1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark
• 1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
• 1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian
• 1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer
• 1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic
• 1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor
• 1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer
• 1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
• 1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general
• 1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary
• 1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
• 1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader