2008 Brad Renfro, dies in Los Angeles, California, of an overdose, at 25 2005 Ruth Warrick, American Musician 2004 Olivia Goldsmith, writer, The First Wives Club, dies at 54 2000 Fran Ryan, actress, Green Acres, dies at 83 2000 Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian Criminal 1998 Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63 1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies 1998 Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63 1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82 1997 Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92 1996 Les Baxter, singer/orchestral leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73 1996 Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51 1996 Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78 1995 Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61 1994 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72 1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52 1994 Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85 1993 Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88 1993 Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68 1993 Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51 1993 Sammy Cahn, Cohen, U.S. songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schon), dies at 79 1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 1987 Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69 1987 Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83 1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, U.S. football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 1983 Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Florida at 80 1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75 1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 1981 Emanuel Celler, Representative-D-New York 1923 - 1973, dies at 92 1978 Margaret Bowman and Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy 1974 Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76 1973 Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68 1972 Daisy Ashford, English witer, wrote 'The Young Sisters', dies 1971 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50 1969 Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82 1968 Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies 1968 John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 1968 Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion and Relativity), dies at 69 1967 Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86 1966 Betsy Mitchell, U.S. 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25 1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered 1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, U.S. jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58 1962 Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49 1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies 1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76 1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63 1948 Josephus Daniels, American Politician 1942 Mel Sheppard, runner, 4 Gold Medals 1908, 1912 Olympics, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies at 58 1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Governor-General of Australia), dies 1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70 1934 Patrick O'Malley, U.S. policeman, killed by John Dillinger 1932 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77 1926 Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42 1924 Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74 1922 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89 1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1915 Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63 1911 Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49 1909 Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85 1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 1904 Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73 1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1876 Eliza Johnson, American First Lady 1866 M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies 1844 Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78 1816 Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88 1812 Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76 1788 Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77 1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies 1765 Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61 1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83 1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72 1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/Governor of Nijmegen, dies 1684 Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48 1208 Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
