Blacksheep Speaks

Historuc Obits for 8/27

And here are the famous deaths that I managed to forget yesterday as well. Boy I was having a great day, can't you tell?:) Maybe I can manage to put up today's....later......

1576 Titan Italian artist, dies. 1635 Lope Felix de Vega dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72. 1840 William Kneass 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office. 1879 Sir Rowland Hill introduced postage stamps, dies at 84. 1958 Dr Ernest O Lawrence inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57. 1963 W E B Du Bois scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana. 1967 Brian Epstein Beatles' manager, dies. 1971 Bennett Cerf (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73. 1975 Haile Selassie depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83. 1977 Steve Dunne actor (Professional Father), dies at 59. 1978 Robert Shaw actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51. 1979 Earl Mountbatten British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA. 1980 Sam Levenson humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68. 1981 Joan Edwards singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62. 1984 Billy Sands actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73. 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35.