2000 Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75 1998 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer, dies at 73 1997 Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian, dies at 76 Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies 1995 Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91 Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79 1994 John Curry, English figure skater, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics, dies of AIDS at 44 1993 George Ives, dies at 111 Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84 1991 Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88 Martin Ashe, dies 1990 Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84 1989 Charles Vanel, dies at 96 Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies 1988 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81 Kenneth Williams, dies at 61 1986 Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76 Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42 1984 Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61 1983 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68 Corrie Ten Boom, Dutch Celebrity 1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Captain Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66 Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74 Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62 Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76 Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75 1976 Gerald Smith, antisemite / catholic, National Christian Crusade, dies at 78 1975 Charles Marshall, dies John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65 1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 Frank H Knight, American Economist 1969 Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81 1968 Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73 1967 Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69 1966 Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81 1965 Syd Chaplin, dies at 80 1962 Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80 Esther Minciotti, dies at 74 1958 Estelle Taylor, dies at 64 1956 Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88 1954 Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54 1949 Wallace Beery, U.S. actor (The Champ), dies at 64 1947 Wolstenholme, rocker, dies 1943 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62 1942 Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61 1938 Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46 1937 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79 1929 Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74 1927 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 1925 John Singer Sargent, U.S. portrait painter, dies at 69 1924 Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82 1920 Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74 1916 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75 1912 William Thomas Stead, English Journalist 1911 Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies 1898 Robert Purvis, American Activist 1891 Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 1866 William Jackson, composer, dies at 51 1865 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1863 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90 1853 Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67 1824 Theodorus F van Capellen, Vice-Admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 1788 Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 1772 Karel Jozef, ruler of Batthyanyi, dies at 73 1765 Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 1764 Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies 1756 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 1719 Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76 1659 Simon Dach, German poet, dies 1610 Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 1607 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 1605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies 1502 Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies 1415 Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine leader/diplomat (Erotemata), dies 1220 Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
