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Events on Thursday 11 August 1994 1
1913 – 1994Peter Cushing (1913-1994)Died 11 August 1994, aged 81Peter Cushing, the English actor best known for Hammer horror films and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, died of cancer in Kent. He was one of the most recognizable faces of British horror cinema.