2005 Philip Morrison, American Scientist 2004 Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, dies at 27 2003 Felice Bryant, Songwriter, ", Wake Up, Little Susie, ", dies at 77 1996 David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63 1996 Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69 1996 Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies 1995 Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53 1995 Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89 1994 D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96 1994 Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator', dies at 64 1994 Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80 1994 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81 1994 Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89 1994 Richard M. Nixon, American President 1994 Karl Hess, American Writer 1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72 1993 Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66 1993 Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (New York Yankees), dies at 88 1992 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34 1992 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies 1992 Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies 1990 Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies 1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47 1988 Irene Rich, U.S. actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96 1988 Charles Melvin Price, Representative-D-Illinois 1945 - 1988 1986 Mircea Eliade, writer, dies 1984 Ansel Adams, U.S. photographer, dies at 82 1983 Earl "Fatha" Hines, U.S., jazz pianist/conductor, dies 1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80 1983 Earl Hines, American Musician 1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80 1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76 1980 Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72 1978 Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75 1977 Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71 1976 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79 1975 Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75 1967 Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62 1962 Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61 1962 Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62 1961 Maria Radulphus, Adrian Hermus, Curaeao school inspector, dies at 91 1957 Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 1953 Top Naeff, Anthonetta van Rhijn-N, Dutch writer, dies at 75 1951 Stanley Ridges, actor, 'Possessed', 'Sergeant York', 'Mr. Ace', dies at 59 1950 Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54 1946 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73 1946 Lionel Atwill, actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61 1946 Harlan Stone, American Lawyer 1945 Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77 1944 Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68 1933 Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies 1930 Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63 1929 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86 1925 Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46 1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies 1901 William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies 1892 Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69 1883 Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38 1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries 1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76 1844 Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76 1833 Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62 1830 Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69 1827 Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies 1821 John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52 1788 Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46 1782 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66 1778 James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies 1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 1722 Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies 1699 Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53 1677 Wenzel E Furst von Lobkowitz, Austria chancellor (16..-74), dies at 68 1672 Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 1662 John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies 1648 Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69 1592 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 1521 Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded 1462 Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies 1355 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36 1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 536 Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies
