2001 "Willie ""Pops"" Stargell", baseball great/humanitarian, dies at 61 2000 Catherine Crook de Camp, writer, The Day of the Dinosaur, dies at 92 1998 Tom Cora, American Musician 1997 Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80 1996 James William Rouse, U.S. builder (shopping malls), dies at 81 1996 Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83 1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 1996 Sandy Becker, New York City Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74 1996 James Rouse, American Businessman 1995 James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92 1994 Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis, Jr., Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71 1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 1994 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered 1993 Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74 1992 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77 1992 Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96 1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73 1988 Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis 1988 Dave Prater, rocker (Sam and Dave), dies in a car crash at 50 1986 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64 1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies 1982 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies 1982 Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85 1980 Kathleen Burke, dies 1979 Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71 1976 Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957, dies at 46 1976 Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35 1972 James F. Byrnes, American Politician 1966 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57 1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70 1961 Zog I, Ahmed Zogu, King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89 1954 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65 1951 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies 1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 1948 Jorge Elecier Gaitan, Colombian politician, murdered 1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged 1945 Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged 1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged 1945 Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65 1945 Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged 1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59 1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies 1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89 1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55 1931 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67 1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies 1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I 1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62 1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies 1909 Francis Marion Crawford, 1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73 1893 Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66 1886 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 1882 D G Rossetti, writer, dies at 53 1882 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53 1882 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Melanges), dies at 66 1879 Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70 1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 1862 George W. Johnson, U.S. planter/Confederate (gov-Kentucky), dies at about 50 1852 John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies 1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80 1850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies 1821 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78 1807 John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London 1806 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58 1804 Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies 1793 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62 1765 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77 1761 William Law, theologian, dies 1754 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75 1747 Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies 1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England 1693 Roger de Rabutin, French Writer 1681 Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54 1626 Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, statesman, dies 1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies 1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 1492 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies 1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38 1024 Benedict VIII, Theophylactus van Tusculum, Pope (1012-24), dies 715 Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
