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Events on Monday 22 April 1996 1
1927 – 1996Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)Died 22 April 1996, aged 69Erma Bombeck was an American humorist whose syndicated newspaper column on suburban family life ran in hundreds of papers for decades. Her bestselling books, including "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?", made her one of the most widely read American writers of her generation. She died following complications from a kidney transplant.