2005 Howell Heflin, American Politician 2005 Howell Heflin, Senator-D-Alabama 1979 - 1997, died of a heart attack 2005 Mitch Hedberg, comedian, appeared on television show, 'The Late Show with David Letterman' and film, 'Lords of Dogtown', dies at age 37, in Livingston, New Jersey 2004 Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95 2003 Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " 2003 Harry Ellis Dickson, American Musician 2001 Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer 1999 Joe Williams, jazz singer, sang with Count Basie, dies at 80 1998 Casey Cisyk, jingle singer, dies at 44 1997 Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74 1997 Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94 1996 Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46 1995 Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74 1995 Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78 1995 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74 1995 John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82 1994 Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72 1994 Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89 1994 William Huston Natcher, Representative-D-Kentucky 1953 - 1994, dies at 84 1992 Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68 1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84 1991 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40 1991 Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey and Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52 1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73 1986 Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79 1982 Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86 1982 Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68 1982 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 1982 Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier 1981 Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79 1980 ... Mantovani, orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74 1979 Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82 1974 Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71 1972 J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate 1970 Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist 1966 Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at 50 1964 Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63 1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 1959 Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies 1959 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84 1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84 1957 Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 1957 Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist 1955 Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81 1946 John Clapham, English Economist 1945 Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79 1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54 1933 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52 1930 Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies 1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71 1917 Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76 1912 Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1911 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74 1892 William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75 1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31 1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74 1886 John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth 1880 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62 1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies 1848 John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 1847 Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66 1839 Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/General-major (Maastricht), dies at 56 1837 Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies 1802 Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51 1792 Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds 1788 Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies 1772 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Environmentalist 1745 Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1697 Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies 1655 Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66 1650 Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73 1546 Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered 1058 Stephen IX, Frederik van Lotharingen, 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies
