2006 Daniel Schaefer, Representative-R-Colorado 1983 - 1999 2003 Graham Jarvis, actor, Seventh Heaven, dies at 72 2002 Robert Urich, actor, Spenser for Hire, dies at 55 2002 Ruth Fertel, restaurateur, started Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, dies at 75 2001 Michael Ritchie, American Director 1998 Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, oldest person in 1998, dies at 117 1997 Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66 1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82 1997 Michael Stroka, TV actor, Aristede-Dark Shadows, dies of cancer at 57 1996 Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73 1996 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89 1996 Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62 1996 Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86 1995 Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75 1995 Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide 1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80 1995 Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86 1994 John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75 1994 Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 1994 Ron Vawter, U.S. actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45 1994 Samuel Selvon, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, dies at 70 1994 Ralph Ellison, American Author 1993 John P. W. Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77 1992 Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72 1992 Frank Killmond, dies at 58 1992 Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71 1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 1989 Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies 1988 Abu Jihad, Khalil al-Wazzir, PLO-leader, murdered 1988 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90 1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1988 Warde Donovan, dies at 72 1985 Scott Brady, Gerald Tierney, actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60 1980 Alf Sjoberg, dir (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76 1978 Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 1973 Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43 1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 1971 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46 1970 Peter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73 1970 Richard J. Neutra, Australia/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78 1970 Richard Neutra, American Architect 1968 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78 1968 Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76 1959 Charles Halton, dies at 83 1955 Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded 1951 Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85 1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 1941 Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies 1941 Josiah Stamp, British Businessman 1938 Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies 1929 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57 1924 Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (England in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies 1920 John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80 1915 Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician 1914 George W. Hill, U.S. astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76 1904 Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author 1881 George William Martin, composer, dies at 56 1879 Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France 1876 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83 1870 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies 1865 Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1860 Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies 1859 Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist 1858 Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 1850 Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies 1846 Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83 1828 Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82 1825 John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84 1825 Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1760 Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward 1756 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 1743 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69 1689 Aphra Behn, English Dramatist 1687 George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59 1619 Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, Dionisio Fiamingo, Flemish painter, dies 1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake 1496 David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69 1446 Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies
