2004 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch Athlete 1999 Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82 1999 Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109 1998 Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies 1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99 1997 Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80 1997 Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at 79 1997 Jeane Dixon, astrologer, newspaper columnist, dies at 79 1996 Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35 1996 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68 1995 Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82 1995 Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62 1995 William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72 1994 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85 1992 John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59 1992 Mahmoud Riad, Secretary-General of Arab League (1972-79), dies 1992 Vernon William Reed Sr, singer, dies after a long illness at 73 1991 Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59 1990 Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies 1990 Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67 1990 Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies 1988 Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87 1986 Ernst Schnabel, writer, dies at 72 1982 Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79 1981 Adele Marie Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82 1981 Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies 1981 [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82 1980 David Newell, actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75 1979 J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87 1978 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse 1977 Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85 1976 Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies 1975 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78 1975 Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician 1970 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 1970 Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84 1969 John Zajic, Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates 1968 Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31 1965 Staff Nees, Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63 1963 Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents 1960 Diana Barrymore, actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at 38 1960 Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at 82 1952 Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70 1949 Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61 1947 Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48 1947 Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45 1942 Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78 1921 Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer, dies at 43 1920 Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35 1910 Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75 1906 Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70 1906 Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78 1899 Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies 1896 Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68 1896 Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies 1882 Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71 1875 Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79 1855 Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83 1829 William Shield, composer, dies at 80 1821 Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62 1820 Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 1744 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64 1733 Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch General-Major cavalry, dies 1726 Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas geographique), dies at 50 1640 Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies 1586 Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70 1547 Lieven Algoet, Flemish humanist, dies 1494 Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies 1139 Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies 1138 Anacletus II, Pietro Pierleone, Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
