2008 Aime Cesaire, dies in Martinique, of heart trouble, at 94 2004 Soundarya, Actress 2003 Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72 1998 Linda McCartney, photographer, organic businesswoman, dies at 56 1997 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78 1996 Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82 1996 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86 1996 Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18 1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 1994 Peter Hacker, U.S. journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69 1993 Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65 1992 Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure 1991 Jack Yellen, U.S. poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies 1990 Ralph Abernathy, American Activist 1989 Charles Lampkin, dies 1988 Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90 1988 Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88 1987 Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36 1987 Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57 1986 Bessie Head, writer, dies 1985 Ilona Bodden, writer, dies 1983 Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies 1983 Mark W. Clark, U.S. general (WW II), dies at 87 1983 Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78 1977 Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86 1976 Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85 1974 Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at 52 1974 Herbert Elwell, U.S. composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75 1974 Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose 1971 Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62 1970 Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92 1968 Margaret Seddon, dies at 95 1967 John Coltrane, American Musician 1962 Louise Fazenda, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66 1960 Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash 1948 Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75 1945 Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed 1945 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies 1945 Walter Model, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 54 1936 Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister 1918 - 1923, 1929 - 1933, dies 1915 Johannes P Kelly, Kellij, Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60 1899 Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74 1892 Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian Statesman 1891 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77 1890 John Barnett, composer, dies at 87 1884 Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies 1873 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60 1863 Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate gen/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61 1854 Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 1838 J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71 1837 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies 1837 Joseph Anderson, American Politician 1835 William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies 1790 Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84 1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82 1726 Henriette Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49 1714 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56 1711 Jozef I, Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32 1696 Madame de Sevigne, French Writer 1679 John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53 1630 Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies 1574 Joachim Camerarius, Liebhard Kammerer, German philologist, dies 1427 Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies 1297 Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St. Truiden, dies at about 86 1272 Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59 858 Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies 818 Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies
