2007 Ray Evans, dies in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure, at 92 2004 Jan Miner, pitchwoman/stage actress, You're soaking in it, dies at 86 2002 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist, dies at 87 2002 Kevin Smith, actor, Xena, dies at 38 1999 Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist 1998 Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89 1998 Martha Gellhorn, journalist, dies at 89 1996 Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies 1996 Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72 1996 McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66 1996 Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58 1996 Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54 1995 Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90 1995 Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77 1995 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90 1995 Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33 1995 Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail 1995 Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies 1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo, Rostov Ripper, Russian mass murdered, executed 1994 Tiger Haynes, U.S. actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79 1993 George Wallington, Giacinto Figlia, Italian bebop-pianist, dies 1992 William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81 1991 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack 1991 Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78 1990 Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77 1990 Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68 1988 Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies 1988 Gardiner Means, U.S. economist, dies at 91 1988 Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83 1988 Neil Ronald Jones, science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78 1988 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 1987 Jimmy Holiday, U.S. singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42 1987 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57 1984 Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73 1984 Ethel Merman, singer and actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76 1984 Leamon Hunt, U.S. director-General in Sinai, killed by communists 1982 Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 86 1981 Mike Bloomfield, musician, guitarist, composer, number 22 on Rolling Stone's '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time', dies of drug overdose at 36 1981 Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56 1979 Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51 1979 Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed 1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72 1975 Julian Huxley, biologist, dies 1975 Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies 1974 Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86 1973 Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55 1973 Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48 1972 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 1972 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 1971 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63 1968 Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 1967 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79 1967 William C Bullitt, 1st U.S. ambassador in U.S.S.R., dies at 76 1966 Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies 1965 Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49 1964 Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman for the Chicago Cubs, dies in plane crash at 22 1962 Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak and Dagger), dies at 72 1961 Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59 1961 Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater 1932 Olympics silver, dies 1959 Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 1955 S. Z. Sakall, actor, Dolly Sisters, Casablanca, dies at 71 1943 Thomas "Fats" Waller, U.S. jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38 1943 William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73 1942 Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91 1942 Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69 1939 Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47 1939 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68 1933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami 1932 Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66 1930 Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1928 Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (1908-16), dies at 75 1924 Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 1923 Josephine B Willson Bruce, U.S. black theorist, dies at 69 1922 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36 1919 Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66 1917 Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60 1916 Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73 1910 Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51 1905 Lewis Wallace, U.S. diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77 1905 Lew Wallace, American Soldier 1904 Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician 1903 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69 1902 Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68 1896 E J Nicholson, writer, dies 1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1887 Alexander Borodin, composer, dies 1885 Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52 1865 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies 1864 Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies 1864 William Dyce, painter, dies 1857 Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies 1857 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53 1849 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44 1844 Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, British premier (1801-04), dies at 86 1841 Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53 1835 Henry Hunt, British politican, dies 1832 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85 1831 Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies 1820 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 1820 William Ellery, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 92 1818 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69 1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany 1780 William Blackstone, jurist, dies 1779 James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii 1778 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80 1761 Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54 1759 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89 1744 Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49 1744 John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies 1713 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies 1709 John Philips, English Poet 1701 Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80 1686 Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies 1680 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41 1680 John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43 1660 Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72 1637 Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58 1621 Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 1600 Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59 1597 Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66 1580 Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies 1568 Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36 1503 Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies 1400 Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle 1152 Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 1145 Lucius II, Gherardo Caccianemici, Italian Pope (1144-45), dies 1043 Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52
