2005 Will Eisner, American Cartoonist 1997 Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84 1996 Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67 1996 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88 1995 Byron MacGregor, newscaster, dies at 56 1995 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 1995 Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88 1994 Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten and The Bie), dies at 48 1993 Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89 1992 Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79 1992 Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93 1992 Lewis Michael Friedman, pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS 1992 Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies 1990 Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies 1988 Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972, dies at 82 1988 Rose Auslander, writer, dies at 70 1988 William Cagney, actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82 1985 Lucien Cailliet, composer, dies at 93 1981 Herman Talmadge, Senator-D-Georgia 1957 - 1981, Governor of Georgia 1948 - 1955, Watergate Committee, died at age 88 1980 Amos Milburn, rocker, blues singer, pianist, played rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, important figure in the history of blues musicianship, dies at 52 1980 Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38 1980 Ivan Triesault, actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at 81 1980 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69 1979 Conrad Hilton, U.S. founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 1977 Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide 1977 Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75 1977 Carroll Quigley, American Writer 1976 Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, dies 1976 Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83 1976 Michael V. Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24, dies in F-4 crash at 37 1975 Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87 1975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 1975 Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71 1974 Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at 72 1972 Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82 1969 Howard McNear, actor (Irma La Douce), dies after long illness at 63 1967 Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55 1967 Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92 1966 Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62 1965 Betty Harte, entertainer, dies at 82 1965 Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84 1965 Milton Avery, American Artist 1963 Oscar Backing, Austria/Netherlands viola player, dies at 83 1960 Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80 1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet 1956 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91 1951 Fred Barlow, composer, dies at 69 1946 William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason 1945 Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68 1942 Pauline Beersmans, PLJM van Cuyck, Flemish actress, dies at 70 1938 Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54 1933 Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56 1931 Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78 1923 Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakian writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39 1915 James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30 1914 Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62 1912 Felix Dahn, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples', dies at 77 1907 Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73 1900 Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80 1898 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 1882 William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76 1882 William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist 1875 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68 1875 George Bizet, composer, dies 1873 John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71 1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46 1868 Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75 1865 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 1858 Rachel, Elisabeth Rachel-Felix, French singer and actress (Muse), dies at 36 1855 Julius Charles Hare, English Clergyman 1853 Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30 1841 Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82 1836 Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65 1835 Willem F Roell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67 1829 Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48 1795 Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64 1761 Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (Joseph), dies at 73 1759 Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed 1670 George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61 1661 Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 1641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22 1628 Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer, dies at 64 1571 Joachim II Hector, elector (Brandenburg), dies at 65 1570 Bartholomeus Latomus, Steinmetz, Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies 1560 Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56 1552 Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64 1543 Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies 1501 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 1322 Philip V, the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies
