2008 Margaret Truman, dies in Chicago, at 83 2004 Joe Viterelli, mob actor, Analyze This, dies at 66 2004 Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist 2003 Leslie Fiedler, American Critic 2002 Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38 2002 Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88 1997 Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35 1997 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76 1997 Osvaldo Soriano, writer, journalist, staff writer for La Opinion, wrote, 'Triste, solitarity y final', or, Sad, lonely and final', dies at 54 1996 Jack Sutherland, journalist, dies at 79 1996 John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82 1995 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88 1995 Chris de Marigny, painter/designer, dies at 52 1995 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69 1995 Richard Burnell, British rower, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics, dies at 77 1995 Richard Desborough Burnell, oarsman, dies at 77 1994 Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67 1994 Nick Cravat, midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81 1994 Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26 1993 Hank Werba, Herman Werblowski, U.S. journalist (Variety), dies at 79 1993 Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies 1992 Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76 1991 Jan Ode, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies 1991 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies 1988 Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide 1988 James R Killian, Jr., MIT President (1948-59), dies at 83 1988 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 46 1987 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73 1986 Leif Erickson, actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74 1984 Frances Goodrich, (Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 93 of lung cancer 1981 Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II), dies 1980 Antonio Molina, composer, dies at 85 1980 Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86 1978 Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86 1977 Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico and the Man), shoots himself at 22 1976 Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies at 59 1973 Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67 1973 Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 1970 Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74 1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian 1969 Allen Dulles, American Public Servant 1967 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62 1966 Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84 1966 Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38 1965 John Larkin, actor (Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52 1965 Michael Spisak, composer, dies at 50 1964 Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs California 1963 Robert Lee Frost, U.S. poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 1963 Robert Frost, American Poet 1962 Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist and composer, dies at 86 1960 Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 1956 H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75 1956 H. L. Mencken, American Writer 1955 Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51 1951 James Bridie, Osborne Henry Mavor, dramatist, dies 1947 Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30), dies 1946 Harry L Hopkins, U.S. Minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at 55 1946 Sidney James Jones, composer, dies at 84 1946 Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat 1944 William Allen White, U.S. journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75 1942 Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92 1941 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69 1934 Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 1933 Sara Teasdale, American Author 1928 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66 1924 Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79 1921 Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for England including a century), dies 1917 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 1916 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62 1912 Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54 1910 Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 1906 Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies 1899 Alfred Sisley, painter, dies 1899 Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75 1888 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 1879 Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 1860 Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet 1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel 1824 Louise MC countess of Albany, Henegouws salon owner, dies at 71 1820 George III, king of Great Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 1814 Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51 1696 Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies 1663 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies 1559 Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 969 Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies
