2003 Ron Burton, American Athlete 2001 Dorothy McGuire, actress, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, dies at 83 1998 George Wallace, politician, infamous Alabama governor, dies at 79 1996 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68 1996 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies 1996 Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87 1996 Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85 1996 Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25 1995 Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94 1995 Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76 1995 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83 1994 John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54 1994 Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58 1994 Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies 1992 Lou Jacobs, U.S. clown (1966 U.S. postage stamp), dies at 89 1991 Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies 1991 Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73 1990 Samuel S. Stratton, Representative-D-New York 1959 - 1989, died at age 73 1989 Geza Frid, Hungarian/Dutch pianist/composer, dies 1989 Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82 1987 Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86 1985 Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90 1982 Grace, Princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash 1982 Philip Ober, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80 1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75 1977 Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95 1973 Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60 1971 Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72 1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician 1969 Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66 1967 Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38 1960 Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75 1959 Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56 1953 Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73 1950 Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56 1948 Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73 1938 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time and deity), dies at 79 1932 Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77 1932 Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded 1928 Italo Svevo, Ettore Schmitz, Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 1924 Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69 1921 Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59 1921 Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], Admiral (WW I), dies at 67 1913 Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76 1906 Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66 1894 Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (Espana, L'etoile), dies at 53 1881 Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57 1872 Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 1859 Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71 1813 Louis-Alexandre Crette, Belgian porselein painter, dies at about 55 1806 Charles James Fox, English Politician 1803 John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies 1759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32 1657 Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62 1650 Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72 1598 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71 1596 Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java) 1592 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amitie), dies at 59 1592 Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher 1321 Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies 867 Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies 81 Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42
