1999 Daniel Nathans, American Scientist 1997 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday 1997 Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies 1997 Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74 1996 George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73 1996 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87 1996 John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88 1995 Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70 1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84 1994 Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57 1994 Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83 1994 David Rayner, cyclist, dies 1994 Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95 1994 Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64 1994 John Boylan, U.S. actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82 1993 Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80 1993 Lucia Popp, Czechoslovakia/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54 1991 Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33 1988 Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Netherlands architect, dies at about 85 1986 Siobhan McKenna, actress (Dr. Zhivago, Hungry Hill), dies at 63 1985 John Sparkman, Senator-D-Alabama 1946 - 1979, dies at 85 1982 Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82 1981 Enid Markey, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy), dies at 85 1981 Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy Detective), dies 1981 William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), dies at 63 1980 Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37 1978 Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75 1978 Cornelis P "Cor" Bruon, Dutch novelist (Sil), dies at 95 1976 Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyriologist, dies at 94 1975 Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president, dies at 83 1974 Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 1973 Alan Watts, writer, speaker, and philosopher, 'The Spirit of Zen' and 'The Art of Contemplation', died of heart failure at the age of 58 1972 Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87 1971 Charlie Dell, comedian, dies at 90 1971 Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28 1968 Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana, dies at 74 1965 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66 1964 Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69 1964 John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59 1964 Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26), dies at 71 1961 Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79 1961 Samuel Rayburn, Representative-D-Texas, speaker of the House, 1940 - 1957, died of pancreatic cancer at age 79 1960 Clark Gable, actor, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 59 1958 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet, dies 1958 Warner Fabian, S Adams, U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 1957 Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67 1955 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88 1945 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43 1943 Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1935 Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53 1934 Carl P G von Linde, German physicist (Linde-procede), dies at 92 1934 Joachim Ringelantz, writer, dies 1932 Carry van Bruggen, de Haan, Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51 1924 Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78 1924 Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75 1919 Sofert H Koorders, botanist (Java), dies at 55 1909 Francis Thome, composer, dies at 59 1894 Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician 1893 George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87 1890 Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71 1885 Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 1835 Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 1831 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51 1808 Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29 1797 Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53 1775 Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28 1766 Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81 1724 Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged 1706 Cornelis Evertsen, mutineer/ltalian-admiral of Zeeland, dies at 64 1706 Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies 1668 Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79 1667 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer, dies at 34 1632 Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 1603 Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies 1548 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44 1512 Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded 1512 Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded 1271 Henry III, king of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
