2008 Bernie Mac, dies in Chicago, of complications of pneumonia, at 50 2004 David Raksin, composer, Laura, dies at 92 2003 Gregory Hines, dancer/actor, White Nights, dies at 57 2000 John Harsanyi, American Educator 1996 James Whitman McLamore, businessman, dies at 70 1996 Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65 1996 Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1995 Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53 1995 John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29 1995 Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78 1994 Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93 1994 Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64 1994 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77 1992 Christopher Todd, Todd Wangberg, dies of AIDS at 30 1992 Jan van Baal, antropologist and Governor of Dutch New-Guinea, dies 1992 Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies 1992 Thomas J McIntyre, Sen-New Hampshire, 1963 - 1979, dies at 77 1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies 1990 Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies 1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85 1987 Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55 1986 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77 1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies 1980 Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies 1980 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41 1979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64 1979 Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75 1978 James G Cozzens, U.S. writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 1978 Johan Daisne, Thiery, Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66 1977 Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75 1977 George Kenney, American Soldier 1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65 1976 Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72 1975 Dimitri D Shostakovich, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68 1975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46 1975 Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer 1973 Charlie Daniels, U.S. swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88 1972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53 1972 Richard Ellsasser, composer, dies at 45 1969 Abigail Folger, U.S., coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered 1969 George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72 1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies 1969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26 1969 Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered 1967 Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66 1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies 1967 Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34 1966 Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75 1965 Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83 1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 1962 Herman Hesse, German Author 1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75 1959 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55 1958 Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74 1955 Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57 1949 Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy and Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83 1949 Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist 1944 Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 1942 Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies 1936 Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist 1929 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71 1928 Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71 1924 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66 1919 Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85 1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62 1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer 1915 Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle 1904 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59 1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48 1892 Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies 1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1888 Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82 1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46 1854 Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57 1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies 1835 Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78 1806 Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33 1763 John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies 1727 Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52 1710 Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77 1672 Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70 1668 Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 1652 John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 1634 Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies 1613 Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36 1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies 1516 Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66 1420 Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies 1048 Damasius II, Poppo, Pope (1047-48), dies 803 Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies 378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50 117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117)
