2007 Matt Nagle, dies in Massachusetts, of a blood infection, at 27 2004 Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach 2000 Thea Porter, '60s Soho designer, dies at 72 1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies 1997 William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91 1996 "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60 1996 Howard Vernon, actor 'Faceless', 'Delicatessen', dies at 82 1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60 1996 Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76 1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64 1995 Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61 1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94 1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51 1994 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82 1994 Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics, dies at 26 1993 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies 1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70 1993 Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96 1992 Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94 1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered 1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93 1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 1991 Karl Ellis, dies at 41 1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist 1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 1989 Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies 1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 1980 Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54 1979 Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65 1976 Paul Morand, French Diplomat 1974 Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air 1974 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84 1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 1973 Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in New York City 1972 Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl 1971 Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66 1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 1967 Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72 1966 Tony Lema, U.S. golfer, dies at 32 1965 Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59 1965 Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69 1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies 1962 Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86 1960 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68 1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72 1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1950 Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed 1947 Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72 1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 1936 James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52 1933 Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65 1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59 1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls 1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 1868 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies 1865 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30 1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79 1846 Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81 1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67 1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies 1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter 1831 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41 1826 Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65 1819 Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43 1812 Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63 1809 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74 1758 John Dyer, poet, dies 1756 George Vertue, engraver, dies 1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday 1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies 1704 Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle 1652 Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
