2007 Kurt Vonnegut, dies at his home in Manhattan, at 84 2001 Nyree Dawn Porter, actor, The Forsyte Saga, dies at 61 2001 Sir Harry Secombe, actor, The Goon Show, dies at 79 2001 Harry Secombe, Welsh Actor 1998 Rodney Harvey, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho', died at age 30, of a heroin overdose 1997 Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 1996 Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80 1996 Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76 1996 Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7 1996 Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 1996 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89 1994 Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64 1993 Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered 1993 Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63 1992 Adele Dixon, singer and actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 1992 Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 1992 James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72 1991 Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 1990 Barbara Ann Miller, dies 1989 Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68 1988 David Prater, U.S. singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 1988 Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack 1987 Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 1987 Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79 1987 Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 1983 Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78 1981 Marie Ney, dies at 85 1980 Charlotte Henry, dies 1980 Florence Lake, dies 1977 Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77 1976 Liam Dunn, dies a 59 1975 Dorothy Patten, dies at 70 1974 Curt Conway, dies 1974 Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician 1973 Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 1970 Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66 1970 John H O'Hara, U.S. journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65 1969 Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74 1961 Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70 1952 Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76 1950 Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant 1945 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29 1939 SS Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, detective writer, dies at 50 1936 Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44 1935 Anna Katharine Green, American Author 1934 John Collier, British Artist 1921 Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies 1916 Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52 1906 Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies 1906 James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum and Bailey), dies at 58 1903 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 1902 ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle 1901 Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74 1887 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54 1884 Henry James Byron, English Dramatist 1881 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 1875 Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies 1854 Karl Adolph von Basedow, East Germany (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 1853 Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies 1842 John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies 1839 John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59 1838 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 1812 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35 1810 Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75 1783 Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 1729 Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71 1648 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53 1512 Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle 1500 Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns 1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies 1034 Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife 678 Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
