2005 Robin Cook, Scottish Politician 2004 Rick James, Singer, Super Freak, dies at 54 2004 Donald Justice, American Poet 2002 Edsger Dijkstra, programmer, helped to vanquish the GOTO statement in programming, dies at 72 2001 Larry Adler, harmonica player, dies at 87 2000 Robin Day, British Journalist 1999 Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41 1996 Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 1996 Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 1996 Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63 1996 Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies 1996 Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54 1996 Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83 1995 Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52 1995 Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77 1994 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 1993 Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67 1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris 1990 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82 1990 Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43 1990 Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 1990 Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies 1990 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 1988 Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47 1988 J Skelly Wright, U.S. judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77 1988 Francis Ponge, French Poet 1987 Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 1987 Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies 1986 Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 1986 Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87 1986 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) 1980 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66 1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 1978 Edward Durrell Stone, U.S. architect, dies at 76 1978 Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 1978 Pope Paul VI, Italian Pope 1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73 1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72 1970 Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante and Arioso), dies at 58 1969 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65 1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 1965 Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies 1965 Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55 1965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 1965 Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30 1964 Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Captain Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 1963 Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68 1961 Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal and archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87 1959 Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 1938 Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57 1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76 1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 1930 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge 1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 1924 John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 1914 Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54 1904 Eduard Hanslick, German Writer 1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 1895 George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74 1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 1867 Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown) 1862 Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 1853 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57 1848 Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 1820 Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 1820 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies 1816 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 1799 Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 1784 Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies 1727 Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 1718 Jacob F Muller, Sjako/Jaco, German/Netherlands crowd leader, beheaded at 28 1686 Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies 1660 Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 1637 Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65 1637 Ben Jonson, English Poet 1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies 1548 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies 1458 Callistus III, Alfonso the Borja, Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 1272 Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies 1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 1195 Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies 966 Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) 523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
