2007 Kitty Carlisle, dies in New York City, of congestive heart failure, at 96 2002 Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79 2002 Buck Baker, American Celebrity 1999 Anthony Newley, singer/composer, The Candyman, dies at 67 1999 Ellen Corby, actress, The Waltons, dies at 87 1996 Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91 1996 Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50 1996 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80 1996 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81 1996 William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67 1995 Brian Coffey, poet, publisher, dies at 89 1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1995 Donald Keech, entrepreneur, dies at 74 1995 James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75 1995 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89 1994 Harry Touw, Dutch comic (Fred Hache Show), dies at 70 1994 Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered 1993 Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author, Heir, dies at 85 1993 Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death 1992 David Miller, dies of cancer at 82 1992 Sammy Price, U.S. boogie-woogie pianist, dies 1990 Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies 1988 Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83 1988 Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79 1987 Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79 1986 Jean Genat, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75 1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86 1985 Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies 1985 Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63 1983 Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Olympic-bronze-1952), dies at 64 1983 Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders), dies 1983 Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42 1980 Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84 1976 Gerard Romsee, Flemish nationalist, dies at 74 1976 Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60 1975 Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77 1975 Michael Flanders, British Actor 1973 Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88 1973 Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA 1971 Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies 1965 Leonard Mudie, dies of heart ailment at 82 1965 Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged 1965 Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged 1964 Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64 1964 Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 1960 Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies 1953 Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84 1950 Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher 1949 Joseph A Cushman, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 68 1948 Gerhard Anschutz, German professor, dies at 81 1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home 1943 Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62 1943 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63 1941 Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies 1934 Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies 1934 Karl Dane, dies at 57 1930 W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36 1925 Pieter D van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54 1924 Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67 1924 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65 1924 Louis Sullivan, American Architect 1917 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57 1915 James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies 1914 Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58 1913 Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68 1895 James Dwight Dana, American Scientist 1888 William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62 1874 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86 1843 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42 1813 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34 1768 Francois de Cuvillies, Belgian architect of Bayern, dies 1764 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84 1759 Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74 1695 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73 1692 Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies 1655 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39 1574 Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle 1574 Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle 1574 Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35 1552 Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies 1471 Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42 1433 Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53 1427 John IV, duke of Brabant, dies 1240 Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies 1099 Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death 911 Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies 711 Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
