2008 Richard Widmark, dies in Connecticut, after a long illness, at 93 1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66 1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88 1995 Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62 1995 Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75 1995 Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1994 Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated 1994 Tommy Benford, jazz drummer, dies at 88 1993 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35 1993 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90 1993 Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60 1990 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies 1990 An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer 1990 Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob and Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68 1990 Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St. Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56 1986 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67 1984 Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr. Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93 1982 Ace Goodman, Kansas City, Missouri, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83 1980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass 1979 Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53 1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 1977 Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73 1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66 1975 Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60 1975 Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86 1974 Doris Deane, dies at 74 1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79 1971 Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect 1969 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 1968 Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70 1967 Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63 1964 Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59 1960 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at 70 1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 1953 Mary, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, dies at 85 1948 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher 1946 Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53 1946 Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66 1945 J S Nicklin, Lt-colonel/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies 1945 Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies 1937 Leopold Courouble, Belgian writer (Pauline Flatbread), dies at 76 1921 Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48 1918 Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53 1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48 1911 Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies 1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 1909 John Synge, Irish Poet 1905 Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 1894 Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 1881 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 1878 Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 1877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 1867 Mary, Victoria MALOPCA of Teck, queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies 1842 Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59 1838 Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 1823 Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 1755 Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72 1661 William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston 1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 1644 Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies 1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 1631 Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 1603 Elizabeth I Tudor, Maiden Queen, U.K. queen (1558-1603), dies at 69 1558 Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies 1471 Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 1455 Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 1455 Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies 1400 Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies 809 Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44
