2005 Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect 2002 Eileen Farrell, singer, Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell, dies at 82 2001 William Hanna, cartoon creator, The Flintstones, dies at 90 1999 David Strickland, actor, Suddenly Susan, dies at 29 1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 1996 Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS-5, STS-51-B), dies at 59 1996 Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47 1996 Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78 1995 Peter Woods, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News, dies at 64 1994 Dan Hartman, U.S. singer/songwriter, 'Love Sensations', dies at 42 1994 Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89 1994 Walter Lantz, U.S. cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93 1993 Gret Palucca, German dancer and choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83 1993 Steve Olin, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, drowns at 27 1993 Tim Crews, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, drowns at 31 1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58 1986 Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies 1979 Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78 1979 Walter Legge, British Businessman 1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in Puerto Rico at 73 1975 Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Secretary of U.S. Olympics 1945 - 1965, dies at 75 1975 Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59 1975 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 1974 Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35 1971 Martin Bodmer, writer, dies 1969 Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78 1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76 1964 Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68 1962 Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65 1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 1956 George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71 1953 James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies 1951 J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Matthaus Passion), dies at 79 1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68 1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64 1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67 1923 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71 1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86 1909 Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66 1906 Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59 1890 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85 1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70 1845 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67 1838 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 1832 J. W. Goethe, writer, dies at 82 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet 1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76 1820 Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41 1798 Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51 1796 Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68 1777 John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 1771 Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitrage), dies at 56 1758 Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher 'Original Sin', dies at 54 1743 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77 1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73 1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 1627 Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81 1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67 1471 George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies 337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
