2005 Derek Bailey, English Musician 1998 Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80 1998 Richard Paul, actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, dies at 58 1997 Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39 1997 Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77 1997 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76 1997 Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84 1996 Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74 1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6 1996 Rupert John, Governor-General of Grenadines (1970-76), dies 1995 Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78 1995 Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89 1995 Nikolai Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101 1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 1994 Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78 1992 Garrison H Davidson, U.S. Lieutenant-general commandant (West Point), dies 1992 Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87 1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 1992 Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies 1991 Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90 1991 Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Cesar), dies at 87 1991 Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45 1990 Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77 1989 Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies 1989 Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61 1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed 1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed 1989 Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angelique), dies 1989 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51 1985 George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at 66 1983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90 1980 Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80 1980 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43 1980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered 1979 Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70 1979 Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64 1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88 1976 Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58 1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94 1973 Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923 - 1965, dies at 89 1971 Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70 1964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74 1963 Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67 1962 Warren R. Austin, American Politician 1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies 1957 Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87 1956 Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78 1954 Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25 1954 Liberty Hyde Bailey, U.S. botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96 1954 Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84 1951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1950 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47 1946 W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67 1946 W. C. Fields, American Comedian 1943 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62 1943 Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82 1942 Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32 1940 Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42 1938 Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48 1936 Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68 1930 Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65 1927 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 1926 Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47 1925 Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30 1925 Karl Abraham, German Psychologist 1922 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75 1921 Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69 1921 Korolenko, writer, dies 1904 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61 1903 Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72 1895 Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32 1883 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65 1878 Anna Claypoole Peale, U.S. painter of miniatures, dies 1868 Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies 1858 James Gadsden, American Politician 1848 Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60 1842 Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76 1824 Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60 1788 John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40 1765 Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79 1761 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51 1683 Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed 1530 Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies 1513 Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 1249 Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies 1156 Peter Venerabilis, French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61 820 Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered 795 Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies
