2008 John Archibald Wheeler, dies in New Jersey, at 96 1997 Ann Craft, researcher and writer, dies at 53 1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1996 Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71 1996 George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74 1996 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64 1995 Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77 1995 Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87 1994 Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92 1994 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83 1994 Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83 1994 P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70 1994 Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandel), dies at 56 1994 Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czechoslovakian actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72 1994 Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64 1993 Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49 1993 Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies 1993 Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72 1992 Brian Oulton, dies at 84 1992 Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84 1992 Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Captain of Surrey), dies at 74 1990 Luis Trenker, dies at 97 1990 Ronald Ibbs, dies 1986 Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies 1984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self 1978 Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74 1975 Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60 1975 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies 1974 Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71 1973 Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73 1967 Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44 1966 Georges Duhamel, French Novelist 1959 Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57 1959 Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38 1952 [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79 1949 C V France, dies at 80 1946 William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72 1944 Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86 1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65 1942 Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58 1941 Annie Jump Cannon, U.S. astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77 1936 Demertzis, Greek premier, dies 1928 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36 1910 William Orchardson, British painter, dies 1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies 1903 Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65 1886 Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68 1882 Bruno Bauer, German Theologian 1880 Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist 1873 Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90 1868 Theodorus, Kasa, emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide 1864 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74 1831 Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80 1826 Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62 1825 Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66 1822 Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61 1806 Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82 1794 Nicolas de Chamfort, known for aphorisms and witty epigrams, wrote successful comedy, 'La Jeune Indienne', commits suicide at 53 1756 Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29 1742 Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59 1728 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63 1722 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies 1695 Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies 1638 Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gie, French hugenot leader, dies at 58 1517 Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged 1475 Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt di Vita), dies at 69 799 Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies
