2007 Jack Valenti, dies at 85, from stroke complications 2003 David Lavender, American Historian 1999 Bert Remsen, actor, The Player, dies at 74 1999 Jane Crowley, censor, NBC censor for The Tonight Show, dies at 73 1999 Jill Dando, British Journalist 1998 Gabe Paul, American Businessman 1997 Joey Faye, comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes) 1997 Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies 1997 Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies 1996 Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69 1996 John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94 1996 Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78 1995 Alexander Knox, actor and writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88 1992 Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87 1992 Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68 1991 Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies 1991 Emily McLaughlin, U.S. actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61 1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated 1989 Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78 1988 Valerie Solanas, American Writer 1986 Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87 1986 [William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74 1984 Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70 1984 May McAvoy, actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack 1984 William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday 1984 Count Basie, American Musician 1983 Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81 1983 Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72 1982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73 1982 Ville Ritola, Finnish 5/10km runner, Gold Medals 1924, 1928 Olympics, dies 1981 Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65 1981 Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71 1981 Robert Davi (opera singer/actor), dies at 54 1980 Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87 1976 Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60 1976 Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45 1976 Sidney James, actor (Lavander Hill Mob, Carry On), dies at 65 1973 Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 1972 Margaret A R Bonds, U.S. pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56 1970 John Knittel, writer, dies at 79 1965 Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70 1964 Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 1964 Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93 1960 Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 1958 Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68 1956 Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66 1952 Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59 1951 John Alden Carpenter, U.S. composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75 1946 Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65 1941 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74 1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 1938 Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79 1932 Hart Crane, American Poet 1931 George H. Mead, American Philosopher 1931 George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher 1924 Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82 1922 Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84 1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian math genius (Notebooks), dies at 32 1915 John Bunny, American Actor 1910 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 1907 Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79 1865 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 1827 Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90 1805 Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 1789 Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 1731 Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 1726 Jeremy Collier, English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 1703 Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58 1648 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79 1558 Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies 1478 Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24 1444 Robert Campin, South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 1196 Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies 757 Stephen II, III/Orsini, Pope (752-57), dies
