2008 Jerry Wexler, dies in Sarasota, Florida, of congestive heart failure, at 91 2003 Roy Neal, TV journalist, NASA correspondent, dies at 82 2002 Jesse Brown, American Politician 2000 Edward Craven Walker, gadfly, invented the lava lamp, dies at 82 1999 Hugh Casson, British Architect 1996 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86 1996 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93 1996 Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82 1995 Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86 1994 Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80 1994 Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28 1994 Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64 1993 Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93 1992 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies 1992 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies 1992 Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness 1992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies 1992 Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice, dies 1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 1990 Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66 1989 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies 1988 Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82 1988 Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash 1988 Ray Buchanan, U.S. blues gitarist, dies at about 48 1985 Richard Yardumian, U.S. composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68 1983 Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42 1983 Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 1982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60 1978 Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80 1976 Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84 1975 Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53 1974 Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82 1974 Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered 1972 Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89 1971 Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76 1970 Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66 1969 Stijn Streuvels, F Lateur, Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97 1968 Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84 1967 Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68 1966 Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64 1966 Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64 1966 Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71 1963 John Powell, composer, dies at 80 1958 William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, U.S. blues singer and guitarist, dies at 65 1956 Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83 1951 Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69 1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 1936 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76 1935 Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75 1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 1935 Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55 1935 Paul Signac, French Artist 1918 Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64 1914 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 1907 Joseph Joachim, German violinist and composer, dies at 76 1901 Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77 1887 Meir Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlos), dies at 67 1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies 1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 1853 Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman 1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 1848 Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 1798 Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50 1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 1729 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 1728 Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72 1725 Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77 1666 Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies 1619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies 1615 Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies 1600 Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60 1576 Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies 1464 Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58 1118 Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies 1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan 1038 Stefanus I, Arpad, 1st king of Hungary, dies 423 Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies 69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
