2004 Spalding Gray, actor/writer, Swimming to Cambodia, dies at 62 2004 Alexandra Ripley, American Writer 2001 John G. Schmitz, American Politician 2000 Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90 1997 Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window 1997 Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96 1997 George Young, footballer, dies at 74 1997 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71 1997 Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan Writer 1996 Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88 1996 Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81 1995 Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74 1995 Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57 1995 Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies 1994 Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72 1994 Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73 1993 Diana Adams, ballerina, dies 1993 Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death 1992 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 1991 Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62 1990 Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42 1990 Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies 1986 Joseph Kraft, U.S. columnist, dies at 61 1984 Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82 1982 Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84 1982 Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55 1981 Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63 1980 George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86 1978 Don Gillis, U.S. composer (Symphony #5 ), dies at 65 1978 John D Rockefeller III, U.S. billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 1978 Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua 1978 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62 1976 Chester Arthur Burnett, U.S. blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 1976 Howlin' Wolf, singer and guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65 1972 Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 1972 Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68 1972 Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82 1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 1970 Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 1970 Charles Olson, American Poet 1968 Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 1968 Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 1968 Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85 1968 Louis-Franeois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 1968 Theophilus E Donges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69 1967 Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 1967 Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77 1966 Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69 1964 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 1963 Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66 1961 Dashiell Hammett, U.S. detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66 1958 Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52 1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 1956 Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84 1956 Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 1955 Joseph McCabe, English Writer 1954 Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53 1953 Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56 1951 Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59 1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 1951 Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65 1945 Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 1943 J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83 1941 Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61 1941 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67 1939 Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50 1939 Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64 1938 Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68 1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 1927 August(us) Alleb, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88 1917 Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies 1908 Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65 1899 Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 1895 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45 1892 Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91 1889 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68 1876 Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70 1871 Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 1865 Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman 1862 Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 1846 Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 1833 Adrien Marie Legendre, dies 1833 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73 1824 Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64 1811 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46 1800 Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46 1792 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60 1789 Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 1780 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 1778 Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70 1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies 1768 Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82 1754 Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51 1674 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84 1645 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 1542 Gerardus Noviomagus, Gerrit Geldenhauer, Dutch theologist, die at 59 1271 Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies 976 John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 866 Lin-chi I-hsuan, J Rinzai Gigen, Zen teacher, dies 681 Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies
