2003 Jonathan Brandis, actor, Seaquest, dies at 27 2003 Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95 2001 Albert Hague, composer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, dies at 81 2001 Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73 2001 Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies 1997 William Matthews, poet, dies at 55 1997 James Laughlin, American Poet 1996 Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72 1996 Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90 1996 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51 1995 Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85 1995 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81 1995 Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56 1994 Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81 1994 Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75 1994 Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88 1994 Wilma Glodean Rudolph, U.S. sprinter, 3 Gold Medals 1960 Olympics, dies at 54 1993 Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88 1993 Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (New York Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86 1993 Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies 1992 Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81 1992 David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30 1991 Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack 1991 Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60 1991 Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51 1991 Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal and archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87 1990 Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81 1990 Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82 1990 Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies 1990 Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered 1990 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81 1989 Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria, Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93 1987 Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1980 Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85 1980 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42 1980 Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54 1979 Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85 1978 Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71 1976 Walter Hamor Piston, U.S. composer, dies at 82 1976 Walter Piston, American Composer 1975 Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69 1974 Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50 1972 Rudolf Friml, Czechoslovakian/U.S. composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92 1969 Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77 1967 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58 1966 Quincy Porter, U.S. composer, dies at 69 1962 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68 1962 Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma), dies at 55 1957 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78 1956 Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49 1949 Hendrik A de Fish, Henri Pauwels, Flemish philological, dies at 64 1948 Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81 1947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1944 Edgar Stillman Kelley, U.S. composer (Gulliver), dies at 87 1944 George D Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60 1944 Roy Agnew, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, pianist, considered best composer of early 20th century Australia, dies at 51 1941 Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, New York gangster/police informer, killed 1940 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 1937 Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies 1926 Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician 1925 Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65 1921 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1916 Percival Lowell, American Scientist 1912 Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58 1912 John P. Jones, American Politician 1900 Henry Villard, American Journalist 1896 Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84 1893 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80 1869 Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1852 Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22 1823 Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75 1802 Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62 1793 Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53 1793 Lord George Gordon, British Politician 1754 Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58 1739 Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71 1722 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63 1671 Christianus Schotanus Sterringa, Fries theologist, dies at 68 1671 Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59 1606 Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79 1600 Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Netherlands (1598-1600), dies at 42 1595 John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63 1567 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74 1558 Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies 1555 Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65 1202 Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39 1035 Canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41 1035 Knut II, the Great, Viking king of England/Den/Nor (1014-35), dies at 39 607 Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies
