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Deaths

  • 7 Oct 1998

    A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.

  • 6 Sep 1997

    Princess Diana of Wales was laid to rest with 2 billion people watching her funeral on TV.

  • 7 Sep 1996

    Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada, US.

  • 30 Jul 1975

    17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.

  • 30 Sep 1955

    Hollywood actor James Dean died aged 24.

  • 5 Mar 1953

    Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died in his home after suffering from a stroke.

  • 27 Jul 1890

    Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.

  • 3 Oct 1849

    Author Edgar Allan Poe was last seen alive. He was disorientated, lying in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland, US.