2004 Norris McWhirter, Guinness World Records curator/commentator, dies at 78 2004 John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 2004 Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman 1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 1996 Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44 1996 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72 1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66 1995 Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64 1995 J Peter Grace, Jr., CEO (W R Grace), dies at 81 1995 Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61 1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70 1994 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81 1994 Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57 1994 Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87 1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67 1994 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43 1993 George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash 1992 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51 1992 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70 1992 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51 1992 Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash 1992 Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash 1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52 1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82 1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77 1987 Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85 1986 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78 1986 Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80 1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73 1983 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74 1981 Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85 1980 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51 1978 Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70 1972 Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82 1969 Casper Howeler, music critic, dies at 71 1968 Tommy Bridges, U.S. baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 1967 Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 1967 Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman 1966 Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85 1965 George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 1963 Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer 1957 Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk and Wagnalls), dies at 76 1957 Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79 1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47 1956 Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, dies at 52 1954 Joe Laurie, Jr., comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61 1950 Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76 1943 Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1941 Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 1938 Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model, dies at 72 1938 Henry Newbolt, English Author 1937 William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 1932 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 1926 Squire Bancroft, Butterfield, actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 1914 Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1900 Ivan K Aivazovski, Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at 82 1895 George Scharf, critic, dies 1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70 1893 John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies 1889 Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies 1882 Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist, Origin of Species', dies at 73 1881 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies 1881 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53 1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 1874 Owen Jones, architect, dies 1870 Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83 1870 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59 1870 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77 1867 Robert Smirke, British architect, dies 1862 Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns 1862 Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies 1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 1824 George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 1824 Lord Byron, British Poet 1824 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet 1813 Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67 1799 Pieter Hellendaal, violinist, organist and composer (Glees), dies at 78 1776 Jacob Israel Emden, Jacob ben Tswi, German rabbi, dies at 78 1773 Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43 1772 Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66 1770 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74 1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70 1739 Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies 1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies 1689 Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies 1658 Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70 1645 Anton van Diemen, Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at about 51 1645 William Smith, composer, dies at 42 1608 Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies 1588 Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies 1567 Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 1560 Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63 1560 Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian 1529 John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55 1390 Robert II, King of Scotland, dies 1054 Leo IX, Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg, Pope (1049-54), dies at 51 1044 Gothelo, duke of Netherlands-Lotharingen, dies 843 Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
