2008 Bobby Fischer, dies in Iceland, at 64 2007 Art Buchwald, dies at 74, posts his video obituary in which he declared, "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." 2005 Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman 2004 Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72 2003 Richard Crenna, actor, Rambo, dies at 75 2001 Gregory Corso, American Poet 1998 Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82 1997 Asfa Wossen, Amha Selassie, crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies 1997 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90 1996 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83 1996 Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85 1996 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83 1996 Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54 1996 Barbara Jordan, Representative-D-Texas, 1972 - 1978 1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82 1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54 1994 Allan G. Odell, Advertising executive (Burma Shave), dies at 90 1994 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies 1994 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66 1994 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61 1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77 1994 Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84 1993 Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies 1993 Barbara Buczek, composer, works include, Study Nr. 1 for flute solo, 1990, Blaeserquintett, 1969, dies 1992 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95 1992 Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer 1992 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies 1991 Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies 1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies 1989 Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 1983 Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71 1981 Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73 1980 Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr and Mrs. North), dies at 59 1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967 1976 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident 1973 Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77 1972 Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55 1970 Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32 1969 Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59 1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 1967 Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82 1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50 1965 Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies 1964 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57 1964 T. H. White, Indian Writer 1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 1961 Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36 1959 Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi 1955 J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68 1955 Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Netherlands), dies at 68 1946 Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59 1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61 1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82 1938 William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79 1918 Julius Wellhausen, German Educator 1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 1913 Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73 1911 Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies 1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 1908 Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72 1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed 1901 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87 1893 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70 1892 Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27 1891 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74 1891 George Bancroft, American Historian 1890 Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85 1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56 1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 1874 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 1869 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55 1863 E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 1856 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 1833 James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60 1833 William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies 1830 W Waiblinger, writer, dies 1826 Juan Crisostomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19 1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 1820 Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73 1788 Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37 1781 Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies 1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78 1738 Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies 1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed 1654 Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried 1625 Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50 1620 Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59 1617 Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68 1604 Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61 1229 Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 1119 Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies 1103 Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies 395 Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
