2007 Al Oerter, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 71 2004 Richard Avedon, photographer, dies at 80 2002 Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94 1997 Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 1996 Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74 1996 Patrick McGeown, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981, dies at 40 from a heart attack 1995 Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50 1995 Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90 1995 Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90 1994 Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43 1994 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86 1994 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54 1994 Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90 1993 Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75 1993 Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77 1992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 1992 Harry Milton Ray, singer and actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45 1991 Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies 1990 Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies 1990 Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 1990 John Stewart Bell, Irish Physicist 1985 Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86 1985 E. B. White, American Comedian 1984 Hansje Toussaint, Hermina A Schenk, singer/cabaretiere, dies at 69 1984 Walter Alston, Baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 72 1984 Walt Alston, American Athlete 1980 George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 1979 Roy Harris, U.S. composer, dies at 81 1979 Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1975 Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T and The MG's), dies at 39 1973 Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1972 Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 1970 Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52 1970 Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87 1968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies 1966 Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies 1965 Edward E "Doc" Smith, U.S., sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies 1965 Gareth Hughes, actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71 1964 Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76 1961 Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60 1956 Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36 1945 Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73 1943 Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed 1943 Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 1943 John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 1943 Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 1930 Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84 1929 Antoine Bourdelle, French Sculptor 1927 Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68 1911 Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies 1911 Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77 1904 William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76 1901 Abdoer-Rahman, emir of Afghanistan, dies 1881 Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78 1876 Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77 1876 James Lick, American Celebrity 1868 Rama IV, Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua, king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63 1864 John Dunovant, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1814 Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies 1807 John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1795 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70 1770 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64 1768 Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80 1708 John Blow, composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59 1704 Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44 1684 Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42 1633 Filaret, Fjodor N Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies 1602 Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61 1578 Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31 1574 Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies 1499 Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher 1404 Boniface IX, Pietro Tomacelli, Pope (1389-1404), dies 976 Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies 552 Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle 540 Vedastus St. Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies 290 [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
