2004 Egon Von Furstenberg, fashion designer, dies at 57 2003 David Brinkley, TV journalist, dies at 82 2003 William Marshall, actor, Blacula, dies at 78 1999 DeForest Kelley, actor, Star Trek, dies at 79 1997 Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert, Making Things Grow, dies of Alzheimer's at 87 1996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72 1996 Brigitte Helm, actress 'Gloria', dies at 90 1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69 1996 Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49 1995 Lovelace Watkins, born in New Jersey, nicknamed, 'The Black Sinatra', singer, considered the greatest male soul singer of his time, dies of leukemia at 57 1995 Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71 1994 Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44 1994 Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77 1994 Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90 1994 Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90 1993 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84 1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40 1992 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103 1992 Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer 1992 Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39 1991 Vlastimil Fisar, Czechoslovakian actor/president (International Actors Federation), dies 1990 Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86 1988 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 1988 Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38 1986 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80 1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains New Jersey at 31 1984 Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary-General (CP) Italy, dies 1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73 1979 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 1979 John Wayne, actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72 1975 Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90 1970 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89 1970 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87 1970 Frank Laubach, taught reading through phonetics, dies 1970 Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55 1970 Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant 1969 John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89 1969 Joszi Jeno Tersanszky, Hungarian writer (Till Next Time), dies at 81 1969 John L. Lewis, American Leader 1967 Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79 1966 Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82 1966 Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68 1963 Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon 1956 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61 1956 Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73 1955 Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered 1955 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72 1955 Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75 1951 Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies 1949 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed 1949 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71 1943 Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50 1936 Robert E. Howard, American Writer 1930 Henry Clay Folger, Jr., CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72 1929 Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68 1927 William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies 1924 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Jr., Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87 1924 Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86 1923 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet 1915 Luis Coloma, Spanish jesuit/writer (Pequeneces, Boy), dies at 64 1913 Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered 1912 Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74 1908 Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45 1906 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 1903 Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35 1900 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53 1896 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 1886 Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40 1880 Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, 1st female member of Congress, died at age 92 from natural causes 1879 Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39 1859 Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician 1856 Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76 1829 Adolf Mullner, writer, dies 1828 Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74 1825 Daniel D Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54 1811 Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82 1808 Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83 1775 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67 1766 Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73 1764 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74 1698 Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64 1674 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52 1666 Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 1560 Marie Guise, French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, dies at 44 1560 Mary of Lorraine, pro-French Regent of Scotland, dies at 44 1488 James III, king of Scotland, dies in battle 1479 Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies 1249 Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies 1216 Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), dies
