2010 Eddie Fisher, American singer, dies in Berkeley, California 2007 Marcel Marceau, dies at 84, at his home in Cahours, France 2003 Gordon Jump, actor, WKRP, dies at 71 2002 Joseph Nathan Kane, trivia expert, Famous First Facts, dies at 103 2002 Jan de Hartog, Dutch Writer 2001 Isaac Stern, violinist, dies at 81 1999 George C. Scott, actor, Patton, dies at 71 1997 Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76 1997 Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77 1997 George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61 1997 Ruth Picardie, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer, dies in Lambeth, London, of breast cancer, at age 33 1997 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82 1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81 1996 Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer, dies at 72 1996 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria 1979 - 1984, dies 1995 Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89 1995 Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82 1995 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62 1994 Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79 1994 John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85 1994 Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80 1994 Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69 1993 Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89 1991 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies 1991 Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash 1989 Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101 1989 Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies 1987 Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27 1987 Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65 1987 Jaco Pastorius, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine, dies at 35 1987 Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82 1985 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 1981 Harry Warren, American Composer 1978 Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85 1975 Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75 1975 Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60 1972 Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 1971 Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67 1971 Yvonne St. Clair, dancer, dies at 57 1969 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59 1961 Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 and 10), dies of cancer at 64 1960 Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78 1959 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60 1959 Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53 1959 Josef Matthais Hauer, composer, dies at 76 1956 Frederick Soddy, English Scientist 1952 Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62 1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1944 "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek 1935 Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86 1927 Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44 1923 Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse 1914 Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27 1905 Galli-Marie, French mezzo-soprano, dies at 64 1890 Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79 1865 Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist, dies at 71 1828 Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies 1826 Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66 1814 A. W. Iffland, writer, dies 1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday 1796 Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63 1776 Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 1774 Clement XIV, Giovanni Ganganelli, Pope (1769-74), dies 1737 Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65 1737 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69 1712 Jose Solana, composer, dies at 69 1702 Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies 1658 Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50 1607 Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72 1566 John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1531 Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55 1520 Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53 1408 Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies 1392 Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22 1392 Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered 1286 Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 1253 Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53 1253 Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher 1197 Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies
