2009 Hugh Leonard, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon', dies at age 82 2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, R and B singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 2000 Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist, Peanuts, dies at 77 2000 "William ""Oliver"" Swofford", singer, ", Good Morning, Starshine, ", dies at 54 2000 Tom Landry, American Coach 1997 Nora Beloff, journalist, dies at 78 1997 Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77 1995 Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66 1995 L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies 1995 Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49 1995 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82 1995 Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54 1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1994 Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys 1992 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ 1928 Olympics gold, dies 1992 Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies 1992 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74 1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 1991 Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies 1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1987 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55 1986 Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86 1986 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82 1985 Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61 1984 Anna Anderson Manahan, Grand Duchess Anastasia, dies in Virginia 1984 Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69 1983 Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100 1982 Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87 1982 Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies 1982 Victor Jory, actor (Adv of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), dies at 79 1981 Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies 1980 Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies 1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84 1976 James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52 1976 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37 1973 Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67 1971 George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86 1971 James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95 1970 Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79 1969 Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch and Perlemoer), dies at 80 1965 Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53 1960 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 1959 George Antheil, U.S. pianist/composer (Ballet Mecanique), dies at 58 1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 1957 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 1955 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 1954 Dziga Vertov, Kaufman, Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 1947 Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 1945 ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed 1945 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies 1945 Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39 1942 Grant Wood, U.S. painter (American Gothic), dies at 49 1933 Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85 1929 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Germany para-psychologist, dies at 66 1920 Emile Sauret, composer, dies at 67 1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77 1920 Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife, dies at 31 1916 J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies 1915 Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77 1915 Fanny Crosby, American Musician 1905 Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies 1901 Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 1896 Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35 1886 P J Edvard Backstrom, Swedish writer, dies at 44 1886 Horatio Seymour, American Politician 1878 Alexander Duff, Scottish Clergyman 1861 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72 1837 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65 1820 Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 1812 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist 1804 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 1799 Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer, dies at 67 1787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 1771 Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60 1762 Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68 1738 James Sherard, composer, dies at 71 1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 1684 Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67 1616 John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 1590 Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 1554 Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17 1554 Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded 1538 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 1242 Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide 1128 Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies
