2002 Sam Snead, golfer, dies at 89 1999 Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer 1996 Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81 1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77 1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 1993 James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77 1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies 1992 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered 1991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies 1991 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies 1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 1990 Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock and Roll), dies 1988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73 1987 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86 1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue and Gray), dies at 70 1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 1982 Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 1981 George Jessel, U.S. comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83 1979 Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 1975 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 1974 Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies 1973 Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57 1970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr. Bobbins), dies at 68 1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74 1969 Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 1968 Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 1967 Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 1967 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 1966 Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 1965 David Smith, sculptor, dies 1961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 1947 C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies 1941 Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45 1940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies 1940 Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 1938 Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 1937 John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla 1937 John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman 1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush 1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 1908 Francois Coppee, French poet, dies 1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 1906 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet 1905 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 1897 Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago and Back), dies at 34 1895 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies 1881 Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies 1881 Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies 1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies 1851 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 1842 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 1841 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 1838 John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75 1836 Edward Livingston, American Judge 1834 Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 1785 William Woollett, engraver, dies 1783 James Otis, American lawyer, dies 1776 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author 1754 John Wood, architect/town planner, dies 1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/French admiral, dies at 58 1701 William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock 1684 Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 1668 Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried 1648 Luis de Nain, painter, dies 1627 Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet and writer, dies 1568 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 1498 Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 1423 Benedict XIII, Pedro the Luna, Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies 1153 David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68 1125 Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
