1997 Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69 1996 Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71 1995 Fabio Casartelli, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race, died during 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France, in a crash occurring on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in the Pyrenees 1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83 1993 Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93 1993 John Beck, U.S. producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83 1993 Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76 1993 Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35 1993 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies 1992 Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies 1992 Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies 1992 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88 1992 Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies 1991 Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63 1990 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78 1990 Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer 1989 Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35 1989 Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21 1988 Nico, U.S. model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43 1987 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87 1986 Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91 1984 James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds 1981 Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87 1975 Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74 1973 Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62 1970 Lucien H d'Azambuja, French astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 1969 Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57 1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-87), dies at 66 1966 Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22 1966 German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44 1965 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64 1961 Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67 1958 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84 1958 John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67 1956 Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 1950 Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary (The Nation), dies at 64 1949 Vitezslav Augustin R Novak, Slovak composer (Profundis), dies at 78 1944 George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60 1944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 1942 George Sutherland, English Judge 1941 Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80 1939 Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65 1938 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 1915 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53 1908 Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83 1902 John White, composer, dies at 47 1901 Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79 1899 Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies 1898 Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 1894 Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75 1892 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1872 Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1863 William Dorsey Pender, U.S. Confederate general-major, dies of injuries at 29 1863 Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier 1854 Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41 1833 Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63 1831 Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 1817 Jane Austen, writer, dies 1735 Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 1721 Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies 1710 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36 1695 Joannes Camphuys, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61 1650 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 1642 Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Governor of Ft. Emmerik/Heusden, dies 1639 Bernard, duke of Saksen-Weimar (Rheinfelden), dies 1608 Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61 1591 Jakob Handl, Petelin, Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40 1544 Rene van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25 1374 Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1100 Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies 640 Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58
