2005 Amrish Puri, Indian Actor 2002 Cyrus Vance, American Statesman 2001 William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87 2001 William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman 1999 Betty Lou Gerson, voice, 101 Dalmations, dies at 84 1997 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 1997 Jean Writer-Edern Hallier, dies at 60 1997 Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86 1996 Edmund Happold, structural engineer, founded engineering constituency, Buro Happold, worked on Sydney Opera House, dies at 65 1996 John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70 1996 Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper, dies at 76 1995 Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77 1995 George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93 1995 Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50 1994 Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67 1994 Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85 1993 Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 1992 Harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76 1992 Walt Morey, U.S. children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84 1991 Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86 1991 Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77 1990 Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70 1990 Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96 1986 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86 1981 Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89 1981 Isobel Elsom, actress (Unseen, Jane Eyre, Illegal), dies at 87 1978 Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious 1977 Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69 1976 Agatha Christie, mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85 1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 1970 Blanche Stuart Scott, U.S. pilot, dies at 84 1965 Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. playwright, dies in New York City, dies at 34 1965 Porcupine, in Washington D.C. zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent 1964 C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies 1962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 1962 Richard de Guide, composer, dies at 52 1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 1958 Arthur Shepherd, composer, dies at 77 1956 John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 1956 Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61 1953 Simeon Roncal, composer, dies at 82 1950 Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at 44 1947 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 1943 Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 1940 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 1933 Vaclav Suk, composer, dies at 71 1929 Dietrich Schafer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at 83 1928 Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair 1925 Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85 1880 Ida Grafin von Hahn-Hahn, author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74 1872 Henry Alford, English Clergyman 1867 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74 1861 Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69 1860 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curaeao (christened slaves), dies at 63 1856 L'udovit Stur, Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40 1851 Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72 1839 Joseph A Koch, Australia painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70 1833 Marie-Antoine Careme, author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48 1829 Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 1829 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55 1807 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71 1807 Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 1765 Johann Melchior Molter, composer, dies at 68 1759 Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49 1674 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 1537 Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies 1519 Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies 1517 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41 1390 Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 1167 Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56 1049 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81 689 Benedict Biscop, English saint, dies
