2007 Boris Yeltsin, died in Moscow, Russia, at 76, of congestive heart failure 2007 David Halberstam, dies in California, in a traffic crash, at 73 2002 Jay Chiat, American Businessman 2000 Renato Di Paolo, method actor, accidentally strangled himself while playing Judas onstage, dies at 22 1996 Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer, dies at 70 1996 Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96 1996 P. L. Travers, Australian Writer 1995 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77 1995 John C. Stennis, Senator-D-Mississippi, dies at 93 1995 Lonesome Sundown, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 66 1995 Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86 1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30 1994 Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74 1993 Bertus Aafjes, poet and writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78 1993 Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59 1993 Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1992 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53 1992 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70 1992 Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52 1991 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies 1991 Johnny Thunders, American Musician 1990 Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62 1990 Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies 1990 Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78 1988 Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies 1988 Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman 1986 Harold Arlen, Hyman Arluck, U.S. composer, murdered at 81 1986 Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79 1985 Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78 1985 Sam Ervin, Senator-D-North Carolina 1954 - 1974, dies at 88 1984 August "Guus" Oster, actor and director (Carrie), dies at 68 1983 Buster Crabbe, 400m U.S. swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73 1983 Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78 1980 Jane Froman, U.S. singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72 1976 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69 1976 Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47 1976 Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68 1975 Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27 1975 R D Brinkmann, writer, dies 1975 William Hartnell, actor (Dr. Who), dies at 67 1973 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85 1971 William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76 1970 Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51 1969 Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37 1965 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67 1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies 1960 Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71 1957 William Orlamond, actor (Flesh and Devil, Words and Music), dies at 89 1955 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76 1952 Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies 1952 Minus van Looi, Benjamin van der Neart, Flemish writer, dies at 60 1951 Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President 1946 Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68 1945 Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42 1943 Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 74 1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73 1929 Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28 1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies 1925 Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45 1918 Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies 1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 1915 Rupert Brooke, English Poet 1905 Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54 1905 Joseph Jefferson, American Artist 1897 Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25 1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies 1885 William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73 1880 Guess Saleh, Sarief Bastaman, Javanese painter, dies 1878 Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies 1865 James Dearing, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 24 1853 Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies 1850 William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80 1847 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64 1827 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65 1812 Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85 1786 Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68 1774 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies 1762 Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67 1742 Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62 1740 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies 1732 Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63 1728 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83 1695 Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72 1691 Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies 1670 Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69 1625 Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57 1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 1616 William Shakesphere, English author (Hamlet) 1616 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist 1616 William Shakespeare, English Dramatist 1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies 1016 Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies 1014 Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 1014 Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of England (1013-14), dies 997 Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40 990 Ekkehart II, Palatinus, monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies 871 Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies 303 George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded 303 George, knight of Cappadocie?/saint/patron of England, beheaded
