From: famous.deaths.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer   
   (Jephta), and priest, dies at 68-ish   
      
   1735 - John Eccles, English composer (Master of the King's Musick for four   
   monarchs), dies (b. 1668)   
      
   1925 - Oskar Brefeld, German botanist and founder of modern mycology, dies at   
   85   
      
   1965 - Porcupine, in the National Zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent   
   (Washington, DC)   
      
   1991 - Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77   
      
   2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)   
      
   2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (co-founder   
   Hewlett-Packard), dies of a heart attack at 87   
      
   2009 - Russ Conway, Canadian-American character actor (Richard Diamond Private   
   Eye), dies at 95   
      
   2021 - John Ward, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests; 17 dismissals),   
   dies at 83   
      
   2022 - Everett Lee, American violinist, and theater and classical conductor   
   (Cosmopolitan Little Symphony, 1947-55; Norrkoping Symphony, 1962-72), dies at   
   105   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/january/12   
      
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