2005 John H. Johnson, American Businessman 2004 Fay Wray, actress, the original King Kong, dies at 96 2004 "Robert ""Gypsy Boots"" Bootzin", actor/gadfly, The Gypsy in Me, dies at 89 1999 Harry Walker, American Athlete 1997 Duncan Swift, jazz pianist, dies at 54 1996 Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69 1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 1996 George Richard Samways, children's writer, dies at 101 1996 Herbert Huncke, writer, dies at 80 1996 Julian Stryjkowski, writer, dies at 91 1996 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 1995 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73 1994 Henriette Santer, clinical psychologist, dies at 62 1994 Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95 1994 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94 1994 Robin Cavendish, disabled Campaigner, dies at 64 1993 Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88 1993 Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77 1993 Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50 1993 Marian Anderson, American Musician 1992 Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies 1992 Alison L Gertz, U.S. aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids 1992 Arthur Lang, U.S. boxer/businessman, dies at 115 1992 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies 1992 Lou Krugman, actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78 1992 Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies 1991 Brad Davis, actor (Sybil, Midnight Express), dies of AIDS at 41 1991 James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61 1991 John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies 1991 Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies 1991 James Irwin, American Astronaut 1988 Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), dies at 85 1985 Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78 1984 Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62 1984 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist 1982 Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies 1982 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80 1982 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62 1982 Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies 1980 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63 1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70 1976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1975 Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies of a stroke at 46 1975 Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, U.S., jazz musician, Black Messiah, dies at 46 from a stroke 1974 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 1969 Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26 1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies at 71 1966 Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63 1965 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 1963 Sandor Jemnitz, composer, dies at 72 1961 Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58 1961 Franc N D Buchman, U.S. theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83 1960 Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61 1954 Gino Tagliapietra, composer, dies at 67 1950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies 1950 Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69 1944 Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged 1934 Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies 1929 Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois 1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies 1921 Juhani Aho, Fins journalist and writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 1918 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38 1908 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 1902 Jean Y. Y. Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies 1897 Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, murdered at 69 1897 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 1888 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 1834 Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 1827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1816 Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 1788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 1759 Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 1705 Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded 1700 Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 1694 Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 1685 Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75 1616 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68 1506 Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 1471 Thomas Kempis, Thomas Hammerken von Kempen, monk, dies at 91 869 Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies 117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies
