2009 Helen Suzman, dies in Johannesburg, South Africa, at 91 2009 Claiborne Pell, dies in Newport, Rhode Island, of Parkinson's disease, at 90 2007 Tillie Olsen, dies at 94, in Oakland, California 2005 Shirley Chisholm, American Politician 2005 Bob Matsui, American Politician 2005 Shirley Chisholm, Representative-D-New York 1969 - 1983 2002 Jack Haldeman, science fiction writer, Perry's Planet, dies at 60 2002 Julia Phillips, producer, The Sting, dies at 57 2001 Ray Walston, actor, TV's My Favorite Martian, dies at 86 2000 Marc Davis, Disney cartoonist, designed Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, dies at 86 2000 Victor Serebriakoff, genius, designed IQ tests, dies at 86 1998 Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 1997 Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash 1997 Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66 1997 John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71 1997 Townes Van Zandt, singer and songwriter, dies at 52 1996 Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94 1996 Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 1996 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 1995 Frederick West, English contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 1995 Jess Stacy, pianist, jazz musician, dies at 90 1995 Ted Hawkins, U.S. blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58 1994 Cesar Romero, U.S. actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 1994 Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 1994 James Clay, saxophonist, flutist, hard bop jazz music genre, style influenced by Sonny Rollins, dies at 59 in Dallas, Texas 1993 June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma 1993 Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72 1992 Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies 1992 Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach, California at 64Okla 1992 Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79 1992 Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 1992 Hette G Abma, vicar/Dutch MP (SGP), dies 1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies 1991 Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83 1991 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 1990 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82 1990 Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 1990 Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies 1988 Leo Steiner, New York's Carnegie Deli owner, dies 1987 Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85 1986 David Cecil, English Writer 1982 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 1982 Victor Buono, actor (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43 1982 Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies 1980 Frank Wykoff, sprinter, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics, dies at 70 1980 Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 1975 Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 1972 Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 1972 Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60 1972 Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 1972 Maurice Chevalier, French Actor 1969 Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 1967 Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58 1966 Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 1965 Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53 1965 Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer, dies at 66 1964 Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84 1964 Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86 1962 Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 1961 Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 1960 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 1958 David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55 1958 Edward Weston, American Photographer 1957 Ruth Draper, U.S. elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72 1953 Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29 1953 Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68 1949 Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 1948 Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 1948 Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73 1944 C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies 1942 Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35 1937 John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55 1934 Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 1932 C. P. Scott, British Journalist 1923 Willie Keeler, American Athlete 1920 Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 1919 William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 1907 Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 1906 Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 1901 Ignatius Donnelly, U.S. attorney/lieutenant governor of Minnesota, dies at 69 1887 Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 1866 Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies 1850 Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 1818 Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87 1817 Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 1816 Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60 1800 Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 1793 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 1787 Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44 1784 Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 1783 Jacobus Enschede, Haarlems printer, dies at 39 1782 Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 1780 Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 1777 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 1768 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 1766 James III Edward, Old Pretender, king of Great Britain and Ireland, dies at 77 1758 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 1753 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 1730 Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 1701 Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 1661 Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 1630 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies 1626 Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies 1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies 1559 Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies 1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 1517 Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies 1515 Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 1387 Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies 962 Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies 898 Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 404 Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered 379 Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies
