2007 Lee Hazlewood, dies in Henderson, Nevada, of renal cancer, at 78 2005 Little Milton, American Musician 2001 Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64 2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist 1999 Victor Mature, actor, Samson and Delilah, dies at 86 1997 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122 1996 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59 1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87 1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies 1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69 1994 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65 1994 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85 1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies 1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64 1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93 1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer 1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56 1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65 1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack 1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure 1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema 1981 Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92 1976 Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher 1975 John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57 1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68 1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81 1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies 1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73 1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70 1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78 1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies 1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies 1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40 1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54 1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 1904 Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?) 1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist 1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41 1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 1875 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author 1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59 1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68 1821 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 86 1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27 1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77 1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 1598 William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 1578 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle 1578 Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24 1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies 1526 Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies 1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded 1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 1306 Vaclav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered 1265 Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle 1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered 1060 Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52
