2002 William Rosenberg, Entreprenuer, started Dunkin' Donuts, dies at 86 1997 Clive Brain, educationalist, dies at 57 1997 Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77 1997 Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58 1996 Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85 1995 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63 1995 Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88 1995 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83 1995 Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55 1994 Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player, tin whistle player, co-founder of the band Altan, dies at 38 of Ewing's sarcoma, in Northern Ireland 1993 Bruce Ferden, U.S. conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44 1993 Richard Landau, U.S. screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79 1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57 1992 Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies 1990 Werner Janssen, U.S. composer (New Years Eve in New York), dies at 91 1989 Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies 1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65 1986 Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies 1985 Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61 1984 June Preisser, dancer/actress (Babes in Arms), dies in car crash at 61 1982 Samuel L M Barlow, composer, dies at 90 1981 Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies 1978 Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation 1974 Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63 1973 Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75 1973 Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26 1972 Robert M Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer), dies at 73 1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies 1969 Rex Ingram, actor and director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73 1968 Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 1968 Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58 1967 Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64 1962 Pogodin, writer, dies 1961 Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies 1954 Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56 1952 Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies 1949 Will Cuppy, American Writer 1944 David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle 1944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies 1944 John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem 1935 Jules M Cambron, French Governor-General to Algeria/ambassador, dies 1935 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist 1927 Isadora Duncan, American Dancer 1925 Francis Darwin, English Scientist 1918 Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56 1911 Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies 1902 Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies 1898 George Grey, New Zealander Leader 1882 Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67 1881 James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49 1881 James A. Garfield, American President 1864 Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 1864 Robert Emmet Rodes, U.S. Confederate General-major, dies in battle at 35 1863 Preston Smith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 [Lewis] Henry Little, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 45 1836 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66 1830 Stanislas Champein, composer, dies at 76 1812 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Businessman 1761 Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69 1756 Josef Antonin Sehling, composer, dies at 46 1719 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59 1719 Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried 1678 Christoph B von Galen, prince-bishop of Munster (1650-78), dies at 71 1356 Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies 1356 Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle 1356 Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle 1180 Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59
