2008 Studs Terkel, dies in Chicago, at 96 2003 Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116 2000 "Ring Lardner, Jr", writer, M*A*S*H screenwriter, dies at 85 1999 Greg Moore, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series, fatally injured in violent car crash on the 10th lap of the CART season finale 1998 Bernard J. Dwyer, Representative-D-New Jersey 1981 - 1993, died of a heart attack 1997 Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman, dies at 86 1996 Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88 1996 Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner, dies at 77 1996 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66 1996 Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85 1996 Marcel Carne, French Director 1996 Alexander Harman, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979, dies 1995 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94 1995 Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60 1995 Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42 1995 Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82 1995 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57 1995 Lloyd Lambert, bassist, dies at 67 1995 Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher, dies at 84 1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56 1995 Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1974 - 1975, dies at 68 1994 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80 1994 Jole Silvani, Niobe Quaiatti, Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies 1994 Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76 1994 William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34 1993 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52 1993 Edwin A Walker, U.S. Major-General, dies of lung cancer at 84 1993 Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73 1993 River Phoenix, actor (Stand By Me), dies of drug overdose at 23 1991 Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97 1991 James Marshall, U.S. children's book writer/illustrator, dies at 50 1991 Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies 1991 Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70 1990 Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies 1990 Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70 1989 Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88 1988 John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase, Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86 1987 Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83 1986 Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90 1984 Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84 1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 1983 George S Halas, NFL coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 88 1983 George Halas, American Coach 1982 Waverley Lewis Root, American Journalist 1977 Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56 1976 Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68 1975 Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78 1971 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert, dies at 70 1970 Pal Szabo, Hungarians farmer/writer (Isten Malmai), dies 1969 Hugo Pfister, composer, dies at 55 1968 Ramon Novarro, Jose RG Samaniegos, actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 1967 Jan Mens, Dutch writer (Honor to God Alone), dies at 70 1965 Rita Johnson, actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53 1964 Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash 1963 Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69 1960 H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 1956 Pietro Badoglio, Premier of Italy (1943-44), dies at 85 1950 Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72 1950 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72 1949 Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies 1948 Cissy van Marxfield, Setske Beek-de Han, writer, dies 1945 Henry Ainley, actor (As You Like It), dies at 66 1943 Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies 1941 Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63 1939 Otto Rank, Rosenfeld, Austria psychoanalyst (Trauma of Geburt), dies 1926 Harry Houdini, Erich Weisz, U.S. magician, dies in Detroit 1925 Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41 1918 Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28 1918 Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers 1904 Dan Leno, English Comedian 1902 Cornelie Huygens, Dutch feminist/writer, dies 1902 Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, dies at 67 1895 Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62 1887 George Alexander Macfarren, composer, dies at 74 1879 Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies 1870 Mihaly Mosonyi, composer, dies at 55 1865 William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse and maker of large telescopes, dies 1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 1860 Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged 1860 Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1851 Peter II Petrovic Njegos, bishop of Montenegro 1830 - 1851, dies at 37 1815 Daniel Belknap, composer, dies at 44 1806 Sophie Mereau, writer, dies at 36 1793 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1768 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78 1765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies 1744 Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer, dies at 50 1723 Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81 1664 Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51 1661 Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies 1654 Francisco Correa de Arauxo, composer, dies 1641 Cornelis C Jol, Houtebeen, Admiral (South-America), dies at about 41 1634 Erasmus Widmann, composer, dies at 62 1556 John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50 1448 Johannes VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantine, dies
