2001 Poul Anderson, writer, Operation Chaos, dies at 74 1997 Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies 1997 Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian, dies at 63 1997 Bao Dai, ex-monarch, last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 83 1997 Edith Fore, pitchwoman, I've fallen and I can't get up!, dies at 81 1996 Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter, dies at 76 1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59 1995 Genevieve Tobin Keighley, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini), dies at 83 1994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66 1994 Caitlin Thomas, dies 1994 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies 1994 Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92 1993 Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems 1993 Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83 1993 Paul Henry, U.S. Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51 1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72 1992 Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65 1992 Ralph Strait, dies of heart attack at 56 1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies 1990 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72 1988 Trinidad Silva, killed in auto accident at 38 1986 Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, U.S. jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73 1985 Eugene Carson Blake, Secretary-General World Council of Churches, dies at 78 1984 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79 1984 Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103 1981 General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash 1980 Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49 1979 Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat, Staircase), dies at 76 1978 Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80 1978 Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70 1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20 1972 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/secretary-general (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73 1969 Charles Edison, American Businessman 1968 Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66 1967 Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81 1967 Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies 1966 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87 1965 James Rennie, actor (Wilson, Skylark, Illicit), dies at 75 1964 Jim Reeves, U.S. country singer, dies in air crash at 39 1960 Karl Hasse, composer, dies at 77 1953 Robert Taft, Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, dies in New York at 63 1951 J of Oudshoorn, John K Feylbrief, writer (Maze of Sentences), dies 1948 Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44 1942 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79 1940 Whitney Krakower, U.S. gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel 1932 Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58 1921 Edgar Saltus, American Writer 1914 A J Jean Jaures, French socialist (L'Humanite/Les Preuves), murdered= 1891 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77 1886 Franz von Liszt, Ferencz, Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74 1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th president, dies in Tennessee at 66 1864 Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish 1795 Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54 1790 Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48 1784 Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies 1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies 1750 Johan V, King of Portugal, dies 1693 Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73 1648 Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60 1566 Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92 1556 Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65 1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome 1556 Saint Ignatius, Spanish Saint 1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
