2009 Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York 2002 Jack Olsen, writer, Last Man Standing, dies at 77 2002 Alan Lomax, American Writer 2001 Gunther Gebel-Williams, lion tamer, dies at 66 1996 David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73 1996 Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77 1996 Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61 1996 Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87 1996 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79 1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81 1995 Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen and I Can't Get Up), dies at 87 1995 James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71 1995 Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66 1995 Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89 1995 Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82 1994 Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies 1994 Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87 1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81 1994 Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87 1994 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37 1993 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist and conductor, dies at 84 1992 Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies 1992 Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79 1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia 1990 Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83 1990 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76 1990 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies of cancer at 72 1989 Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87 1989 Nigel Dennis, British Writer 1984 Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89 1984 Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68 1981 Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81 1977 John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80 1976 Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73 1976 Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70 1974 Earl Warren, Governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83 1974 Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 49 1973 Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29 1973 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33 1970 Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28 1969 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies 1965 Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 1964 Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69 1958 Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32 1957 Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59 1955 Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64 1954 Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81 1951 Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77 1949 Frank Murphy, American Politician 1945 George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80 1944 Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated 1944 Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87 1944 Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75 1940 Samuel H Chang, U.S. newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai 1930 Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85 1922 Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday 1918 Joost van Vollenhoven, Netherlands, Governor-General (French West-Africa), dies 1914 Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82 1907 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 1895 Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73 1895 Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67 1892 Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83 1882 Ivan S Gagarin, Catholic theologist (Etudes religieuses), dies at 67 1852 Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83 1852 John McKinley, American Politician 1850 Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned 1850 [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, dies 1847 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75 1844 Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77 1838 Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72 1814 Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40 1811 Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76 1810 Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34 1742 John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45 1742 William Somerville, English Poet 1740 Francois van Aerssen, Dutch Vice-Admiral (Suriname), dies at 71 1730 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49 1700 Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62 1688 Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50 1627 Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41 1625 Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50 1545 George Carew, English admiral, drowns 1545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns 1534 Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70 1374 Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 1346 Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle 1234 Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament 1054 Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies 514 Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
