1996 George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92 1996 Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57 1996 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88 1996 Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70 1996 George D. Snell, American Scientist 1995 James Anderson, writer, dies at 41 1994 Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81 1994 John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80 1994 John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies 1994 Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80 1994 Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59 1994 Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82 1994 Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93 1993 James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 1993 Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73 1992 Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58 1992 Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39 1992 Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44 1991 Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60 1991 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 1988 Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66 1987 Arthur Frank Burns, Ukrainian Economist 1985 Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54 1984 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79 1977 Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69 1976 J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London 1976 Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85 1976 J. Paul Getty, American Businessman 1975 Larry Blyden, actor (Joe and Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49 1974 Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86 1971 Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63 1970 Lonnie Johnson, American Musician 1968 Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies 1968 Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 1968 Robert Kennedy, American Politician 1968 Randolph Churchill, British Journalist 1967 Edward G Givens, Jr., Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47 1966 Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash 1965 Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64 1964 Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85 1962 Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63 1962 Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34 1961 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (ober Alchemie), dies at 85 1961 Carl G. Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1961 Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1958 Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71 1956 Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist 1946 Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide 1944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day 1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/U.S. pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 1941 Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity 1940 E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 1940 Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman 1939 Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 1937 Jean Harlow, actress 'Bombshell', dies from gallbladder infection at 26 1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68 1932 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author 1928 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67 1926 Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52 1922 Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60 1917 Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59 1916 Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies 1898 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62 1891 John McDonald, Canadian Leader 1883 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29 1881 Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 1878 Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor 1877 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca and chief Standing Bear, dies 1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 1861 Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1852 Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79 1836 Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80 1832 Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher 1816 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dies at 51 1816 Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat 1799 Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary 1785 Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36 1784 Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 1747 Jean Barriere, composer, dies 1735 Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71 1710 Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65 1686 Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Netherlands, dies at 60 1671 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed 1134 Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 840 Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
