2006 Kenneth Lay, American Businessman 2004 Syreeta Wright, singer, Don't You Know With You I'm Born Again, dies at 58 2004 Rodger Ward, American Celebrity 2003 N!xau, bushman/actor, The Gods Must Be Crazy, dies at 59 2002 Katy Jurado, actress, High Noon, dies at 78 2002 Ted Williams, athlete, last person to hit .400 for a season as a major leaguer, dies at 83 1996 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91 1996 Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81 1995 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69 1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67 1993 Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (New York Times), dies at 84 1993 Harrison Salisbury, American Journalist 1992 Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58 1991 Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies 1991 Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87 1990 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46 1989 Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84 1985 Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86 1985 Jack Robertson, South Africa cricket spinner (3 Tests vs. Australia 1935-36), dies 1985 Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73 1983 Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies 1983 Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67 1983 Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76 1981 Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75 1980 Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61 1979 Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87 1979 Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76 1969 Ben Alexander, dies at 58 1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86 1969 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85 1967 Bruce Barton, American Author 1963 Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76 1951 James Norman Hall, American Author 1950 Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st U.S. fatality in Korean War 1950 Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police 1948 Carole Landis, U.S. actress (1 Million BC, Topper Returns), dies at 29 1948 G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60 1948 Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77 1948 Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies 1944 William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67 1941 Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69 1935 Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58 1925 Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61 1920 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1911 George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85 1908 Jonas LI Lie, Norwegian writer (Kommandorens dottre), dies at 74 1908 Peter Oliver, English Artist 1905 Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies 1894 Betty Paoli, writer, dies 1887 August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies 1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 1884 Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62 1883 Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42 1871 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies 1852 Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69 1803 William Jackson, composer, dies at 73 1681 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies 1626 Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle 1539 Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies
