2007 Robert Pickett, stage name, Bobby Boris Pickett, singer, co-wrote and performed hit 'Monster Mash', dies 2002 Lisa Lopes, singer, songwriter, known as 'Left Eye', member of group, TLC, famous songs include, 'Waterfalls', 'Girl Talk', dies in La Ceiba, Honduras, at age 30, in a car accident 1999 Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist 1996 John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87 1996 John Lorne Campbell, folklorist, dies at 90 1996 Saul Bass, graphic designer, filmmaker, dies at 74 1995 Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74 1995 Francis Henry Smith, librarian, dies at 85 1995 Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83 1995 Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89 1994 David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82 1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85 1992 Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39 1992 Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch Minister of traffic and water, dies at 77 1992 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54 1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema 1991 Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66 1991 Theo Laseroms, Tank, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies 1990 Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67 1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85 1988 Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76 1988 Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43 1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83 1988 Clifford D. Simak, American Writer 1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72 1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack 1982 Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73 1982 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81 1982 John Cody, U.S. cardinal and archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74 1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies 1982 William R Burnett, U.S., writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82 1981 Dixie, a mouse who lived 6 years, dies 1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony and Ecstasy), dies 1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79 1972 George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 1971 Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80 1970 Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55 1969 Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80 1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70 1961 Hans F Blunck, writer, dies 1960 Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67 1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62 1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92 1960 Amanullah Khan, Afghani Statesman 1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77 1955 Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73 1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies 1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47 1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 1942 Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52 1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open 1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49 1926 Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 1925 George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81 1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72 1906 John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer, dies at 67 1905 Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70 1882 Johann CF Zollner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies 1879 Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet 1878 Anna Sewell, English Writer 1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 1862 Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55 1853 William Beaumont, physiologist, dies 1845 Thomas Duncan, painter, dies 1840 Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies 1840 Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician 1828 John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64 1822 Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 1813 Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French poet (Le Deserteur), dies at 73 1812 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor 1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66 1800 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68 1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54 1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined 1744 Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42 1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies 1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79 1663 Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53 1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62 1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle 1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle 1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 1566 Diane de Poitiers, lover of French King Henry II, dies 1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies 1472 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68 1342 Benedict XII, Jacques Fournier, Pope (1334-42), dies 1295 Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies 974 Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
