2004 Gary Webb, investigative journalist, wrote articles for 'San Jose Mercury News' about Nicaraguan cocaine smugglers linked to CIA-backed Contras, dies from two gunshot wounds to the head, judged a suicide 2002 Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76 2000 Marie Windsor, actress, dies at 80 1999 Shirley Hemphill, actress, What's Happening!, dies at 52 1999 Franjo Tudjman, Croatian Statesman 1997 Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97 1996 Faron Young, country singer and actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 64 1996 John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62 1995 Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28 1995 Gillian Rose, philosopher and writer, dies at 48 1995 John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85 1995 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 1995 Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88 1994 Garnett Silk, vocalist, dies at 28 1994 George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85 1994 Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies 1994 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor, dies at 92 1993 Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 1992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies 1991 Berenice Abbott, U.S. photographer, dies at 93 1990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92 1988 Dick Clair, comedian (Clair and McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS 1988 Richard Castellano, aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55 1987 Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86 1986 Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44 1986 Susan Cabot-Roman, actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), dies 1983 Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84 1983 Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74 1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden, U.S. radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83 1982 Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94 1981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 1979 Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67 1979 Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84 1978 Edward D Wood, Jr., director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54 1978 Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75 1974 Paul Richards, actor (Dr. Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50 1973 Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81 1972 Mark A Van Doren, U.S. literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78 1971 Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57 1969 Franco Capuana, composer, dies at 75 1969 Leigh Harline, composer, dies at 62 1968 Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 1968 Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65 1968 Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 1967 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer, dies at 71 1967 Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash 1967 Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash 1967 Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 1967 Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash 1967 Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash 1966 Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65 1965 Henry (Dixon) Cowell, U.S. pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68 1964 Sam Cooke, U.S., singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel at 33 1959 Charles Jones, cricket batsman (WI in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies 1959 Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40 1958 Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72 1946 Damon Runyon, U.S. journalist and writer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 66 1946 Walter Johnson, great pitcher for the Washington Senators, dies at 59 1939 Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45 1938 Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35 1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 1935 John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78 1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 1921 Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38 1911 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94 1910 Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76 1909 Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies 1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 1890 Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84 1889 Anzengruber, writer, dies 1889 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50 1888 Mariano Obiols, composer, dies at 79 1877 Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68 1877 Jared Kirtland, U.S. physician/naturalist, dies 1875 Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84 1833 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79 1830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies 1826 Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68 1805 Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43 1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80 1749 Gabrielle Chatelet, La belle Emilie, writer (Voltaire), dies at 42 1665 Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies 1638 Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49 1626 Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician 1616 Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74 1603 William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59 1595 Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59 1572 Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72 1524 Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death 1490 Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90 1198 Averroes ibn-Rusjd, Moorish philosopher, dies 1041 Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies 969 Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
