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1936 Feb 13
 San Francisco-based magician Charles Joseph Carter (61), aka “Carter the Great,” died of a heart attack while on tour in Bombay, India.
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1993
 The fantasy card game “Magic: The Gathering” was created.
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1997 May 14
 Harry Blackstone Jr. (62), magician, died of cancer.
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1998 Oct 15
 From Indonesia it was reported that machete-wielding gangs have killed at least 153 people in Banyuwangi in recent months. The dead were accused of dabbling in black magic and denounced as evil sorcerers. The killings were reported to be spreading to the neighboring districts of Jember, Pasuruan, Situbondo, and the island of Madura.
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2000 Feb 7
 Doug Henning, Canadian-born magician, died in Los Angeles at age 52 from liver cancer.
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2001
 Ricky Jay, magician and actor, published his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies," a concentrated form of his "Jay’s Journal of Anomalies."
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2006
 Phantarak Rajadej (104), a former police chief in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, died. He had begun making and selling Jatukam Ramathep amulets in the 1980s to raise money for a Buddhist shrine and was believed to have mastered the art of black magic to ward off his enemies. Production of the amulets surged following his death. In 2008 the market collapsed.
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2009 Mar 8
 Ali Bongo (William Oliver Wallace), English master magician, died at age 79.
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2012 Aug 20
 Myanmar abolished direct censorship of the media in the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation. But related laws and practices that may lead to self-censorship raise doubt about how much will change. With the abolition of the censorship board publications on "wizards" increased dramatically.
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2018 Nov 24
 Ricky Jay (b.1946), noted American magician, author and actor, died at his home in Los Angeles. His acting credits included the films "The Prestige" (2006), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), "Mystery Men" (1999), "Heist" (2001), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "House of Games" (1987", and "Magnolia" (1999), as well as the HBO series "Deadwood" (2004-2006).
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2020 May 8
 In Nevada magician Roy Horn (75, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built around rare tigers, died in las Vegas from of complications of COVID-19.
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2020 Oct 20
 James Randi (92), Canadian-American magician and professional sceptic, died in Florida. His work included ten books on psychics, faith healers, extrasensory perception nd the mask of Nostradamus.
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2021 Jan 13
 Siegfried Fischbacher, who worked with Roy Horn to create the famous animal training and magic duo of Siegfried & Roy, died (81) in Las Vegas.
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