2002 Harry Hay, American Celebrity 1999 John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77 1998 Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94 1997 Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62 1996 Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83 1996 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 1996 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96 1996 Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87 1995 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 1995 Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87 1994 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies 1994 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered 1994 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54 1993 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39 1993 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49 1993 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/Governor KMA Breda, dies 1992 Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48 1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 1991 Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43 1987 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 1984 Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66 1984 Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85 1983 Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35 1982 James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58 1981 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25 1980 Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30 1976 Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70 1975 Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris 1974 David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65 1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane, actor (voice of Mr. Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72 1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers, dies at 53 1971 Carl Ruggles, U.S. composer (Evocations), dies at 95 1971 Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies 1971 Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer and conductor (Guerre), dies at 73 1970 Richard Hofstadter, U.S. historian, dies at 54 1969 Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71 1967 Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63 1963 Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29 1961 Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 1958 Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81 1958 Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83 1958 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 1958 George Edward Moore, English Philosopher 1957 Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy 1953 Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74 1952 Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61 1949 Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70 1948 Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78 1945 Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide 1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 1944 Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54 1941 Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungarian poet (Campfire), dies at 51 1940 Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74 1938 Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68 1935 Henri Pirenne, historian (Lesson villes ouch moyen-age), dies at 73 1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26 1929 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74 1925 Jindrich S Baar, Czechoslovakian pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56 1922 George Cadbury, American Businessman 1918 Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86 1912 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 1909 Henry Charles Lea, American Historian 1902 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69 1901 Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82 1898 Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Pantheon), dies at 73 1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 1878 Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman 1864 James Jay Archer, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 46 1860 Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 1852 Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 1799 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 1789 Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69 1789 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 1785 Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64 1679 Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66 1667 Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried 1655 Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 1649 Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Netherlands diplomat, dies at about 89 1601 Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 1579 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51 1537 Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies 1521 Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57 996 Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58
