2005 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician 2004 Robert Pastorelli, actor/boxer, Murphy Brown, dies at 49 2004 Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician 2003 Karen Morley, American Actress 2001 Edward Winter, actor, TV's M*A*S*H, dies at 63 1999 Joe DiMaggio, athlete, dies at 84 1999 Peggy Cass, actress, Auntie Mame, dies at 74 1997 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75 1997 Alexander Salkind, producer, Superman, dies at 75 1996 Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45 1996 Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89 1996 Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38 1995 Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 1995 Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91 1994 John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55 1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1994 Knut Haukelid, Norway/U.S. resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82 1993 Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke 1993 Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78 1993 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69 1993 Wells Root, U.S. screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92 1992 Red Callender, U.S. jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76 1986 Hubert Fichte, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, dies at 50 1985 Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack 1985 Thomas Creighton, U.S. heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at 33 1983 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80 1979 Gerard Blitz, Dutch 400m swimmer (WR), dies at 78 1977 Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86 1975 George Stevens, U.S. director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70 1974 Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56 1974 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56 1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27 1971 Harold Lloyd, U.S. comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77 1967 John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46 1965 Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72 1961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81 1959 Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered 1958 Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85 1957 Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70 1955 Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82 1951 Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair 1951 John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83 1950 Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67 1945 H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald 1945 Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1942 Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53 1941 Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67 1941 Sherwood Anderson, U.S. writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64 1937 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71 1936 Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 1932 Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84 1931 Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87 1930 William H. Taft, 27th U.S. President 1909 - 1913, Chief Justice, dies at 72 1923 Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 1920 Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69 1919 Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88 1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78 1901 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64 1901 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (High Mass), dies at 66 1889 Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85 1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 1887 Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman 1874 Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 1869 Hector Berlioz, French Composer 1862 Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56 1862 Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in New York City for stealing 1,000 slaves 1828 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75 1754 Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies 1734 Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33 1728 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 1724 Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81 1720 Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53 1716 Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69 1709 William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62 1702 John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69 1702 William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 1661 Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 1640 Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50 1638 Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73 1550 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55 1466 Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64 1403 Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42 1144 Celestine II, Guido, Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle 883 Albumasar, Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi, Arabic astronomer, dies
