2007 Richard Rorty, dies in Palo Alto, California, of pancreatic cancer, at 75 2000 Jack Kroll, theater critic, Newsweek, dies at 73 2000 Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, Shoe, dies at 52 1996 Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70 1996 Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75 1996 Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88 1996 Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79 1995 Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies 1995 Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69 1995 Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76 1994 William Marshall, actor and director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86 1993 Rene Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84 1992 Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51 1992 Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered 1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1992 William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64 1991 Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies 1991 Heidi Bruhl, German actress (Madels vom Immenhof), dies at 49 1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 1990 Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies 1990 Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies 1988 Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies 1988 Russell Harty, broadcaster, dies 1988 Virgil Oliver, Jr., entertainer, dies 1987 Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33 1984 Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88 1982 Jean Wiener, French composer (Olive chez les negres), dies at 86 1982 [Leroy] Satchel Paige, U.S. baseball pitcher, dies at 75 1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 1979 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61 1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 1973 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76 1972 Jimmy Rushing, U.S. blues singer, dies at 68 1971 Harold Lloyd, Jr., actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40 1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57 1967 Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74 1967 Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies 1956 Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1953 Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68 1948 Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69 1948 Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Australia, caught 44 stumped 21), dies 1947 Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56 1940 Frederick Shepherd Converse, U.S. composer, dies at 69 1931 Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1929 Bliss Carman, poet, dies 1919 Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78 1908 Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66 1906 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65 1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54 1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51 1876 George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71 1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death 1870 Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78 1865 Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies 1845 Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th President (1828-37), dies at 78 1831 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75 1814 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48 1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 1806 George Wythe, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79 1803 Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80 1796 Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80 1795 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10 1794 G A Burger, writer, dies 1790 Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75 1768 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50 1742 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62 1711 Katharina Lescaille, Netherlands Sappho, poet, dies at 61 1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 1688 Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried 1661 John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39 1612 Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49 1376 "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 1115 Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64 1042 Hardicanute, King of England (1040-42), Lambeth 632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) 218 Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
