2008 Edmund Hillary, dies of heart failure at age 88 2008 Carl Karcher, dies in Fullerton, California, of Parkinson's disease, at 90 2003 Maurice Gibb, singer/songwriter, the Bee Gees, dies at 53 2001 Michael Williams, supporting actor, Educating Rita, dies at 65 2000 Bob Lemon, American Athlete 2000 Phillip Carrick, cricketer, athlete, dies 1999 Brian Moore, writer, The Secret Passion of Judith Hearn, dies at 77 1998 Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71 1997 Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97 1997 Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71 1997 Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89 1997 Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83 1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 1996 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61 1996 Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96>> 1996 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 1996 Ike Isaacs, guitarist, played jazz, known for work with Stephane Grappelli, dies at 76 1995 Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72 1995 John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73 1995 Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59 1995 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76 1994 John Bradley, raised U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70 1994 Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80 1993 Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50 1991 Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in New York at 49 1991 Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist 1990 Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies 1988 Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer 1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89 1988 Pappy Boyington, American Soldier 1984 Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62 1984 Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81 1983 Nikolaj V Podgorny, president U.S.S.R., dies at 79 1981 Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88 1979 Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63 1978 Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt and Pepper), dies at 57 1973 Isabel Randolph, actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83 1973 Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday 1966 Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61 1966 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist 1963 Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60 1960 Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at 84 1959 Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies 1958 Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65 1955 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 1954 Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77 1954 Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56 1954 Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83 1953 Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53 1953 Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 58 1953 Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84 1952 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, General (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61 1950 Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77 1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 1944 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies 1944 Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1943 Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered 1943 Arthur Guiterman, American Comedian 1931 Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76 1929 Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28 1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87 1923 Constantine I, king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54 1914 Ambrose Bierce, writer, dies at 71 1901 Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34 1900 James Martineau, English Philosopher 1898 Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86 1893 Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 1891 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 1877 Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85 1870 Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73 1856 Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies 1847 Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 1843 Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63 1837 Francois Gerard, French baron/painter, dies at 66 1837 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 1801 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51 1797 Francis Lightfoot Lee, U.S. farmer, signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 1784 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59 1775 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia 1771 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66 1753 Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92 1674 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58 1650 Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49 1641 Franciscus Gomarus, Francois Gomaer, French theologist, dies 1552 Johannes Cochlaeus, Dobeneck, German humanist/theologist, dies 1055 Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of Byzantium, dies 705 John VI, Catholic Pope (701-05), dies
