2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95 2001 Christopher Hewett, actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere, dies at 80 1996 Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87 1995 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79 1995 Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80 1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77 1995 Jose B. M. Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88 1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54 1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 1994 Christy Henrich, U.S. turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22 1994 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69 1994 John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74 1994 John van Raay, John Oradi, radio-imitator (Paul Flanders) 1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76 1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina 1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies 1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79 1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 1986 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41 1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer 1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered 1979 Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76 1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered 1977 Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83 1977 Makarios III, Michail Mouskos, archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63 1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79 1974 Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85 1973 Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84 1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39 1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 1957 "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer 1954 Colette, writer, best-known for novel 'Gigi', which became a stage musical, dies at 81 in Paris, France 1951 Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies 1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz 1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz 1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cincinnati Reds), commits suicide 1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80 1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies 1938 Bartholomeus "Bart" de Ligt, Dutch anti-militaristic vicar, dies at 55 1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian 1928 Olympics gold 1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69 1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41 1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies 1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59 1902 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54 1894 George Inness, U.S. landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69 1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 1886 Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62 1884 Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacre-Coeur, Paris), dies at 71 1877 Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75 1857 Eugene Sue, French Novelist 1835 Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67 1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies 1825 Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72 1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 1811 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49 1805 Christopher Anstey, English Poet 1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies 1800 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63 1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America, dies at 80 1797 Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1784 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78 1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64 1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27 1716 Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56 1667 Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect 1531 Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37 1530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies 1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies 808 P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
