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Unusual Deaths in 1974
Christine chubbuck, an american television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on july 15. at 9:38 am, 8 minutes into her talk show, on wxlt-tv in sarasota, florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.
Austrian formula one driver helmut koinigg died in a crash in the 1974 united states grand prix at the watkins glen grand prix race course in watkins glen, new york. on approaching a corner, a suspension failure sent koinigg's car crashing head-on into the outer armco barrier. the bottom rail gave way but the top rail did not. helmut koinigg was decapitated and died instantly, in what was only his second formula one race.
Natural disasters in 1974
1974 Brisbane flood
1974 Hunza earthquake
Cyclone Tracy
People who died on September 25 (various years)
2007 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator and community leader
2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet
2006 - Jeff Cooper, renowned firearms expert
2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician
2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer
2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist, founder of Head Start program
2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist
2005 - George Archer, American golfer
2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian
2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic
2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor
2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright
2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician
2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer
1997 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer, actor and folklorist
1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer
1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
1995 - Bessie Delany, American physician and author
1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal
1988 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter
1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor
1987 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress
1986 - Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader
1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguists
1986 - Donald MacDonald former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (b.1909)
1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor
1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium
1980 - Earl Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer
1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet
1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director
1980 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin)
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer
1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author
1968 - Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist
1961 - Frank Fay American actor
1960 - Emily Post, American author & etiquette expert
1946 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer
1929 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager
1926 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth
1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general
1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician
1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec
1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher
1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer
1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician
1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor
1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman
1791 - William Bradford, American printer
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist
1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier
1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria
1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan,
1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian
1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer
1536 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet
1534 - Pope Clement VII
1506 - King Philip I of Castile
1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman
1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
1066 - Harald III of Norway
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
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