2007 Madeleine L'Engle, dies at 88, of natural causes 2007 Luciano Pavarotti, died in Modena, Italy, of pancreatic cancer, at 71 1998 Akira Kurosawa, director, Rashomon, dies at 88 1997 Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66 1996 William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82 1995 Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52 1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 1994 Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85 1994 Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50 1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55 1993 Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79 1990 T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies 1990 Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48 1986 Blanche Sweet, U.S. actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90 1985 Jane Frazee, singer and actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia 1985 Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65 1984 E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74 1984 Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70 1981 Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88 1981 Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies 1979 Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69 1978 Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59 1977 Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85 1977 Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65 1975 Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62 1974 Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of New York), dies at 75 1974 Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday 1973 William H Harris, composer, dies at 90 1968 Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 1966 Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83 1966 Margaret Sanger, U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86 1965 Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79 1963 Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26 1962 Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64 1960 Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65 1959 Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83 1959 Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32 1956 Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84 1952 Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54 1948 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66 1947 Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76 1945 John S Mccain, U.S. admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies 1944 Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered 1941 Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81 1939 Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71 1937 Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65 1932 Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1919 Worm Pander, sculptor 1919 Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1903 Charles Ammi Cutter, U.S. bibliographer, dies at 66 1902 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 1902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86 1863 Lucius March Walker, Confederate Brigadier-General (in duel), dies at 33 1831 Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49 1819 Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74 1811 Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77 1748 Edmund Gibson, English Judge 1701 James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68 1649 Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 1635 Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63 972 John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies 394 Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
