2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author 2003 Conrad Hall, American Artist 1999 Iron Eyes Cody, actor, dies at 94 1998 John Gary, singer, dies at 65 1998 Mae Questel, actress, voice of Betty Boop, dies at 89 1997 Harry B. Helmsley, businessman, Helmsley hotels, dies at 88 1996 Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83 1996 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83 1995 Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80 1995 Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52 1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92 1995 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82 1994 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48 1994 Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Governor of Curaeao 1951 - 1967, dies at 80 1993 Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies 1993 Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69 1992 Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies 1992 William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74 1991 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 1991 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94 1991 Leo N Wright, U.S. saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57 1990 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies 1990 Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57 1987 F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79 1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 1986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81 1986 Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34 1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89 1979 Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack 1978 Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76 1976 Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84 1975 Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72 1974 Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70 1972 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57 1969 Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer, dies at 83 1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1967 Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water 1965 T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76 1965 T. S. Eliot, English Poet 1964 Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64 1961 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72 1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 1960 Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter 1958 Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75 1957 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84 1956 Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91 1955 Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80 1955 Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81 1955 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84 1953 Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78 1952 Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65 1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 1946 Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67 1944 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder 1944 Kaj Munk, Harald Leininger, anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies 1942 Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70 1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 1940 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 1933 Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87 1931 Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at 40 1920 Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Gloria), dies at 76 1914 Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66 1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 1913 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian General-Field Marshal, dies at 79 1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies 1908 Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70 1903 Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49 1898 Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73 1891 Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Australia tour), dies 1886 Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77 1885 Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29 1883 Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91 1880 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt, U.S. robber baron, dies at 82 1864 Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75 1843 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80 1831 Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73 1821 Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland 1809 Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67 1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies 1799 Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40 1793 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35 1786 Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 1782 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83 1778 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57 1765 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39 1761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 1745 Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62 1729 Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77 1729 Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies 1707 Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies 1701 Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austria, field marshal, dies at 62 1695 Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies 1678 Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71 1612 Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62 1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44 838 Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred
