2003 Johnny Paycheck, singer, Take This Job and Shove It, dies at 65 2001 Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity 1998 Harry Caray, sportscaster for the Chicago Cubs, dies at 77 1998 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69 1998 Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76 1998 Bob Merrill, songwriter, Funny Girl, dies at 76 1998 Harry Caray, Cubs baseball announcer, dies at 77 1997 Emily Hahn, writer, dies at 91 1997 Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, dies 1997 Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90 1996 Brian Daley, writer, dies at 48 1996 Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master, dies at 89 1996 Richard Leslie Hill, historian, dies at 94 1995 Calder Willingham, U.S. scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72 1995 Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51 1995 Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82 1995 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83 1995 Yank Lawson, U.S. jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 84 1994 Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76 1993 Edward S "Ted" Haworth, U.S. set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76 1993 Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63 1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 1993 Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 1985 Willy Alberti, Carel Verbruggen, Dutch singer, dies at 58 1982 Edith Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective writer/producer, dies at 82 1982 Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58 1980 Gale Robbins, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr. Hex), dies at 58 1978 Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84 1978 Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71 1978 Maggie McNamara, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal), dies at 49 1977 Andy Devine, Jeremiah Schwartz, actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71 1977 Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curaeao), dies at 87 1977 Ralph Graves, actor (Extra Girl), dies at 77 1976 Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81 1976 Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81 1976 Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88 1975 Chivu Stoica, Stoica Chivu, premier of Romania 1955 - 1961, dies at 66 1975 Luigi Dallapiccola, composer, dies 1975 Raymond Moley, U.S. advisor to President Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88 1973 Franc Costello, U.S. gangster, dies at 82 1970 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94 1969 Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76 1968 Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 1967 Manuel Palau Boix, composer, dies at 74 1967 Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62 1966 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94 1966 Casimir von Paszthory, composer, dies at 79 1966 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31 1963 Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at 73 1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 1959 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65 1959 Eric Zeisl, composer, dies at 53 1959 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer, dies at 66 1957 Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies 1956 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95 1951 Piet A. W. Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85 1950 Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56 1949 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 1944 Charles Davenport, American Scientist 1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 1939 Ludwig Bonvin, composer, dies at 89 1938 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64 1938 Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at 81 1938 Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, (The Way to Nirvana), dies at 69 1933 James Corbett, (Gentleman Jim), heavyweight box champ (1892-97), dies 1932 Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66 1925 James Lane Allen, U.S. writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75 1917 Charles E Barber, U.S. chief engraver (1879-1917), dies 1915 Frank James, American Criminal 1911 Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Australia vs. South Africa Test 1906 Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85 1905 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75 1899 M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1895 Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77 1890 Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66 1885 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61 1878 Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76 1876 Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American Actress 1861 Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74 1846 Giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73 1834 William Wirt, American Statesman 1833 Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64 1833 Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55 1830 Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67 1829 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77 1817 Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72 1807 August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 1807 S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75 1803 J. W. L. Gleim, writer, dies 1799 Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52 1790 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67 1745 Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67 1712 Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies 1683 Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62 1660 Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried 1587 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 1564 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88 1546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 1535 Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48 1535 Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies 1478 Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel 1455 Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies 1397 Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 1294 Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman 1217 Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, English encyclopedist, dies at 59 999 Gregory V, Bruno, 1st German Pope, dies
