2006 Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant 2005 Tom Bevill, Representative-D-Alabama 1967 - 1997, died from heart problems at age 84 2004 Art James, game show host/announcer, ", The Who, What, Where Game, ", dies at 74 2004 Peter Ustinov, actor/writer, Spartacus, dies at 82 2000 Anthony Powell, British Novelist 1996 Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86 1996 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95 1996 Edith Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82 1996 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75 1996 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89 1996 Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78 1996 Shin Kanemaru, Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81 1996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87 1995 Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32 1995 Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88 1994 Albert Goldman, U.S. biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 1994 Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84 1994 John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74 1992 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72 1991 Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85 1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65 1987 Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82 1987 Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr. Who-Dr. Who), dies at 56 1986 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39 1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies 1985 Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97 1985 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53 1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71 1983 Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77 1980 Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies 1980 Jesse Owens, 4 Gold Medals 1936 Olympics, dies at the age of 66 1979 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 1975 Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77 1974 Dorothy Fields, U.S. singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68 1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 1973 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies 1971 Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President 1965 VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67 1963 Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52 1960 Ian Keith, U.S. actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61 1958 Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillie home run hitter, dies at 53 1958 William C. Handy, U.S. conductor and composer (St. Louis Blues), dies at 84 1958 William Christopher Handy, American Musician 1957 Christopher Morley, American Author 1956 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack 1954 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 1953 James Francis Thorpe, decathelete, 2 Gold Medals 1912 Olympics, dies at 64 1950 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67 1949 Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59 1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57 1944 Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis 1944 Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75 1943 Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 1942 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31 1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 1941 Virginia Woolf, British Author 1928 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 1927 Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 1914 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55 1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist and conductor, dies 1908 John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68 1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65 1896 E Rundle Charles, writer, dies 1889 Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler 1887 Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75 1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53 1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 1880 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67 1880 Eelco Refer, linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at 49 1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77 1868 James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70 1865 Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26 1863 James Cooper, U.S. attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52 1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73 1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76 1849 Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44 1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67 1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 1818 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62 1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1799 Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55 1712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 1701 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75 1687 Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90 1677 Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69 1673 Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51 1566 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79 1285 Martinus IV, Simon de Brion, Pope (1281-85), dies 1134 Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Cateaux/saint, dies 593 Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67 193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
