2008 William Odom, dies in Vermont, of a heart attack, at 75 2003 "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright 2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86 2000 Mary Jenkins Langston, cook, cooked peanut butter and banana sandwiches for Elvis, dies at 77 1996 Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57 1996 John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47 1996 Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92 1995 Bobby Stokes, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history, dies at 44 1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 1995 Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82 1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 1994 Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94 1994 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58 1994 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85 1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 1993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, U.S. jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79 1993 Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 1992 Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59 1992 Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77 1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72 1991 Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74 1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83 1989 Claude Pepper, Representative-D-Florida 1963 - 1989, Senator-D-Florida 1936 - 1951 1988 Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66 1987 Frank Carlson, Governor of Kansas 1947 - 1950, Representative and Senator-R-Kansas, dies at 94 1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71 1986 Hank Mobley, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 55 1983 Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated 1981 Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician 1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment 1980 Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies 1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82 1977 Claire Goll, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie', dies at 86 in Paris, France 1977 Paul Desmond, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 52 1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80 1973 Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104 1971 Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46 1971 Marcel Dupre, French composer, dies at 85 1971 Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66 1969 Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66 1969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45 1967 Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 1966 Waino V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72 1964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66 1961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69 1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70 1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies 1954 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 1953 George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60 1951 Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64 1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 1945 Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed 1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79 1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49 1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49 1923 Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curaeaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45 1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies 1918 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 1912 Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies 1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 1870 Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 1865 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 1864 James Barbour Terrill, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 26 1840 Dominique J de Eerens, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 1833 Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27 1809 Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43 1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 1791 Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 1778 Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, French writer (Candide), dies at 42 1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69 1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 1718 Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63 1640 Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies 1640 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62 1593 Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered 1574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies 1434 Prokopius, Bohemia, leader of taboriets, dies in battle 1431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 1416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church 1252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castilie/Leon, dies 1035 Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies 727 Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
