2002 Caroline Knapp, writer, Drinking: A Love Story, dies at 41 2002 Lew Wasserman, American Producer 2001 Anthony Quinn, actor, Zorba the Greek, dies at 86 2000 William Simon, American Public Servant 2000 William E. Simon, American Public Servant 2000 Merton Miller, American Economist 2000 Leonard Baskin, American Artist 1997 Dennis James, game show host, The Price is Right, dies at 79 1996 Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific 1996 Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79 1996 Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82 1996 Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81 1995 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69 1995 Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93 1995 Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94 1995 Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92 1995 Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52 1994 Hub Matthijsen, violinist and bandmaster, dies at 52 1994 Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies 1994 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 1993 Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53 1992 Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83 1992 Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84 1992 William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70 1991 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62 1991 Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 1991 Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mount Unzen Volcano in Japan 1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 1990 Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77 1989 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader 1988 Raj Kapoor, Indian Actor 1987 Andres Segovia, guitarist, dies 1987 Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54 1986 Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81 1986 Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89 1986 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42 1983 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60 1981 Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at 76 1979 Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65 1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 1975 Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 69 1970 Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Harm Harmstra, Fries boer/writer, dies at 70 1970 H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies 1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies 1967 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76 1967 Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67 1967 Hans Fischbock, Austrian financier, dies 1967 Arthur Ransome, Writer 1966 Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65 1963 John XXIII, Angelo G Roncalli, Pope (1958-63), dies at 81 1963 Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57 1963 Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1963 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet 1959 Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73 1949 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79 1948 Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi, Japan (stage)writer (Tjitj kaeru), dies at 59 1946 Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 1943 Folkert E Posthuma, Minister of Agriculture, dies 1933 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88 1924 Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40 1913 Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79 1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide 1899 Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73 1898 Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77 1898 Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74 1890 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76 1888 Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60 1881 Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian 1877 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo 1877 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, princess of Wurttemberg, dies at 58 1875 Georges [Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold] Bizet, French composer, dies at 36 1875 Georges Bizet, French Composer 1872 Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53 1864 James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle 1864 Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle 1861 Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies 1861 Stephen Douglas, American Politician 1858 Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24 1849 Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73 1844 Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame, dies 1809 John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58 1804 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35 1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1764 Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69 1732 Pieter Vuyst, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon, executed 1688 Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66 1679 Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried 1661 Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67 1594 Michel Renichon, priest, executed 1107 Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle 545 Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70
