2007 Gene Snyder, Representative-R-Kentucky, 1963 - 1965 and 1967 - 1987 2002 John W. Gardner, American Educator 2001 Howard Koch, producer, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 84 1998 Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89 1996 Brownie McGhee, blues guitarist, dies at 81 1996 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47 1996 Pat Brown, politician, Democratic party, 32nd Governor of California, in Beverly Hills, California, at age 90 1996 Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman, dies at 84 1996 MacLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H), dies of heart attack at 66 1996 Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62 1996 Susan Bosence, textile designer, dies at 82 1996 Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80 1995 John Everett Allen, U.S. businessman, dies at 91 1995 Martin Soames, traveller, dies at 91 1993 Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61 1993 Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78 1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated 1992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51 1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies 1992 Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies 1992 Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78 1991 Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies 1990 Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31 1987 Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82 1986 Howard Da Silva, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76 1985 Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69 1984 Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 1981 Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84 1979 Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 1979 Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed 1968 Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 1967 Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 1966 Hendrik W. Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 1963 Laszlo Lajtha, composer, dies at 70 1957 Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 1952 Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies 1951 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65 1945 Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45 1944 Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37 1939 Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26 1938 Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64 1936 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted 1934 Eduard Bagritsky, Dzjubin, Russian poet/journalist, dies at 38 1931 Dirk Schafer, Dutch pianist/composer (Klavier), dies at 57 1928 Eddie Foy, American Actor 1916 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79 1916 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at 57 1915 Emil Waldteufel, Charles Levy, French composer (Estudiantina), dies 1912 Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies 1910 Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75 1907 Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies 1900 George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle 1899 Francois Felix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 1898 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet 1892 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies 1864 Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58 1862 William Pennington, American Lawyer 1858 Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86 1857 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 1857 Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37 1851 Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 1834 Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies 1829 Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95 1825 George Gerson, composer, dies at 34 1823 Johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69 1823 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism dies 1803 Jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56 1799 Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts and Bayern), dies at 74 1791 Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, commits suicide at 58 1779 William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies 1754 Richard Mead, physician, dies 1653 Johannes Schultz, composer, dies at 70 1538 Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 1391 Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies 1279 Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies 1247 Hendrik Raspe, Papenking, count of Thuringen, dies 923 Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 309 Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded
