2005 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., Representative-R-South Carolina, 1979 - 1986, Governor of South Carolina 1987 - 1995 2003 Joe Skeen, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003 1996 Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43 1996 Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72 1995 Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42 1994 Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58 1993 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88 1993 Janet Margolin, actress (David and Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50 1993 Robert Taft, Jr., Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, died at age 76 1992 Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79 1992 Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78 1992 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71 1990 Delecta "Dee" Clark, U.S. singer (Raindrops), dies at 52 1990 Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60 1990 Joan Bennett, U.S. actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80 1988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies 1988 Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47 1988 Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire 1985 Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice 1958 - 1981, dies in New Hampshire at 70 1985 Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90 1984 Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65 1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA 1982 Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 1980 Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies 1979 Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82 1979 Nicolas Born, writer, wrote, 'Die Falschung', 'Die erdabgewandte Seite der Gerschichte', dies at 41 in Luchow-Dannenberg 1979 Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris 1975 Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71 1975 Thornton N Wilder, U.S. writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78 1975 Thornton Wilder, American Novelist 1972 Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91 1971 Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90 1970 Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 1969 Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66 1969 Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65 1967 House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87 1962 Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67 1948 Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35 1943 John Bouber, Blom, actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22 1941 Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71 1941 Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28 1917 Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91 1912 George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies 1912 George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1902 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies 1902 Thomas Reed, American Politician 1899 Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82 1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 1881 Julius FA Bahnsen, Germany philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 1867 Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42 1862 Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1860 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43 1841 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83 1839 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69 1834 Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23 1834 Edward Irving, Scottish Clergyman 1829 Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45 1826 John Flaxman, English sculptor (tombs at St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71 1823 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79 1817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63 1815 Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46 1811 Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54 1383 Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies 1254 Innocent IV, Sinibaldo dei Fieschi, Pope (1243-54), dies 983 Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
