2004 Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97 1998 James Patrick Murray, American Journalist 1996 Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80 1995 David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60 1995 Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92 1995 Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90 1995 William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76 1994 Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce 1994 Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91 1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72 1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72 1993 Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56 1992 Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered 1992 Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92 1992 Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49 1991 Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63 1991 Leo Geerts, Marcel van der Linden, Belgian writer/critic, dies 1991 Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 1990 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72 1990 Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58 1988 Franklin D. Roosevelt,, Jr., Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, dies on 74th birthday 1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64 1988 Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies 1987 Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84 1987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93 1984 Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks 1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86 1982 Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68 1982 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb 1981 Robert Russell Bennett, U.S. composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87 1979 Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), diesof cancer at 67 1976 Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63 1976 William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48 1975 Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 1975 Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner. Gold Medal 1956 Olympics, dies at 48 1974 Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, dies at 89 1974 Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 1973 Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 1973 Jean Barraque, French composer, dies at 45 1973 Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32 1972 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 1972 Wampilow, writer, dies 1971 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 1969 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83 1969 Philip Blaiberg, after 19 months with artificial heart, dies 1966 Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43 1963 Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68 1961 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76 1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 1955 Fernand Leger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies 1954 Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77 1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66 1948 Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60 1945 Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61 1945 Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident 1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery and Foules), dies at 36 1927 Horace Alderman, U.S., murderer, hanged 1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 1920 Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch, dies 1914 James Grierson, British general 1909 Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78 1901 Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61 1898 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56 1896 Bridget Driscoll, 1st British to die in an auto-accident 1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 1889 Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor, dies at 42 1888 James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1887 Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74 1880 Ole Bull, famous violinist, virtuoso, compared to Niccolo Paganini, co-founder, Den Nationale Scene theater, dies of cancer, at home on Lysoen island, extensive funeral procession had 15 steamers, other vessels, transporting his body 1878 Richard Upjohn, U.S. architect, died 1868 Duncan Forbes, British Writer 1865 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82 1865 Mosby Munroe Parsons, U.S. Confederate General-Major, dies in battle 1850 Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies 1804 Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies 1792 Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38 1786 Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74 1785 Jonathan Trumbull, U.S. patriot, dies 1777 Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54 1731 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57 1730 Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61 1681 Nikon, Nikita Minin, patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76 1676 Grimmelshausen, writer, dies 1635 Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48 1553 Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies 1536 Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies 1510 Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded 1510 Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded 1464 Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies 754 Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39
