2002 Richard M. Helms, American Celebrity 2001 Howard Finster, American Artist 1996 Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39 1996 John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47 1996 Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42 1995 K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50 1995 Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73 1995 Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79 1995 Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81 1995 Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77 1994 Benoat Regent, French actor (Du Bottom du Coeur), dies at 41 1994 Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73 1994 David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55 1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75 1994 Jimmy Miller, pop drummer/singer/producer (Motorhead), dies at 52 1994 Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85 1994 Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59 1993 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84 1993 Fred C Shapiro, U.S. journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62 1993 Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1992 Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53 1992 Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84 1991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies 1991 Steven Jesse Bernstein, American Writer 1989 Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84 1987 Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93 1986 Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68 1986 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes 1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist 1984 Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66 1984 Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75 1982 Savitri Devi, French Writer 1981 Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies 1979 Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber 1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer (Lasirene), dies at 92 1975 Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86 1975 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian 1973 Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, dies at 96 1972 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies 1970 Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered 1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday 1966 Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies 1965 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42 1965 Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies 1961 Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman 1960 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67 1954 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54 1948 Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies 1943 Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80 1942 Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies 1942 Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies 1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio 1932 Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday 1927 Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30 1926 Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies 1922 Lyman Abbott, American Author 1919 Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter, dies at 67 1897 Justin Winsor, American Writer 1889 Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59 1882 Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65 1881 Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67 1869 Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64 1859 Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75 1852 Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86 1835 Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73 1818 Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 1813 August Harder, composer, dies at 38 1802 Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62 1764 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67 1763 French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73 1751 Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40 1725 Alessandro Scarlatti, composer, dies at 65 1725 Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlotti, composer, dies at 65 1708 Herman Witsius, Wits, reformed theologist, dies at 72 1707 Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly 1651 Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65 1613 Mathurin Regnier, French poet (Macette), dies 1565 Jean Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile, dies 1494 Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies 1383 Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies 741 Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
