2003 Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian 2001 Al McGuire, American Coach 2000 A. E. van Vogt, writer, The World of Null-A, dies at 87 1998 S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67 1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99 1998 Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93 1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music educator, "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taugh violin to children", dies at 98 1998 Walter Edmonds, writer, Drums Along the Mohawk, ., dies at 94 1997 Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83 1997 Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53 1996 David Schultz, wrestler, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, killed by John Du Pont 1996 Harold Brodkey, writer, dies at 65 1996 Henry Jay Lewis, conductor, dies at 63 1995 Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies 1995 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65 1995 Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65 1995 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79 1993 Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies 1993 Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87 1993 Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80 1992 Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80 1992 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63 1991 Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46 1990 FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies 1990 Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist 1989 Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies 1989 Stephane Steinier, Belgian journalist, kidnapped and murdered 1988 Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist 1985 James Cameron, journalist, dies 1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69 1983 Paul Bryant, American Coach 1979 Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President and (4 time Governor-R-New York), dies at 70 1978 Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72 1977 Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61 1975 Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72 1974 S vs. Vegesack, writer, dies at 85 1974 Wiktor Labunski, composer, dies at 78 1973 Edward G Robinson, Goldenberg, actor (Little Caesar), dies at 79 1973 Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71 1967 Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55 1967 Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68 1965 Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered 1963 John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70 1962 Charles "Lucky" Luciano, New York City Mafia gangster, dies at 65 1962 Fran Lhotka, composer, dies at 78 1954 Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80 1953 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/translator (spelling), dies at 58 1952 Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87 1950 Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at 78 1949 Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65 1948 Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65 1947 Grace Moore, U.S. soprano/actress (1 Night of Life), dies at 45 1947 Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash 1943 Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies 1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard 1932 William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies 1922 Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75 1920 Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered 1911 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67 1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies 1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday 1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies 1885 Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 1879 Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer 1870 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 1855 Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, dies at 46 1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies 1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1828 Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity 1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies 1824 Theodore Gericault, French painter (Grand Derby d'epsom), dies 1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62 1706 Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 1109 Albericus of Cateaux, French saint, dies
