2009 Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47 2007 Sidney Sheldon, dies in California, of complications from pneumonia, at 89 2006 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright 2001 O. Winston Link, American Photographer 1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38 1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73 1996 Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72 1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84 1995 George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88 1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 1994 Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies 1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64 1994 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86 1994 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53 1993 Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88 1991 John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83 1988 Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85 1987 Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32 1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies 1986 Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74 1985 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67 1983 Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia 1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65 1982 Felix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76 1982 Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69 1982 Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73 1982 Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91 1980 Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82 1980 Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61 1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80 1976 Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80 1975 Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72 1973 Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54 1972 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81 1970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82 1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75 1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58 1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81 1967 Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies 1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80 1963 Francois Poulenc, French composer (Litanies Vierge noire), dies at 74 1958 Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70 1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65 1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88 1956 Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr. Bobbin), dies at 56 1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68 1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 1948 Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies 1948 Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India 1948 Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76 1948 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader 1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80 1945 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90 1945 William Busch, composer, dies at 43 1942 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72 1928 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66 1927 Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64 1925 Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66 1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79 1900 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71 1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies 1888 Asa Gray, U.S. botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77 1881 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58 1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1860 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44 1838 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail 1836 Betsy Ross, American Celebrity 1827 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53 1816 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74 1797 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40 1774 Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69 1774 Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71 1730 Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14 1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason 1644 William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies 1584 Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle 1584 Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies 1393 Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball 1393 Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball 1384 Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel, dies 1156 Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
