2005 Percy Heath, American Musician 2000 Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet 1999 Arthur Schawlow, physicist, co-inventer of the laser, dies at 77 Rory Calhoun, actor, dies at 76 Roderick Thorp, American Novelist 1998 Jerome Bixby, screenwriter/writer, Twilight Zone, dies at 75 1997 Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer 1996 Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84 Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80 William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies 1995 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81 Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89 1993 Jim Valvano, basketball coach (North Carolina State), dies of cancer at 47 1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St. Francois d'Assise), dies at 83 1991 Floyd B McKissick, U.S. founder (CORE), dies Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 1990 Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies 1989 Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77 1987 Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua 1984 Glen H Taylor, U.S. senator/Vice Presidential candidate (1948), dies at 80 Silvia A Warner, writer, dies Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies 1982 Bert van Dongen, Abraham J Cohen, Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66 1981 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79 1980 Dee Carroll, Betty Jean Marsh, actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies 1979 Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86 1978 Mohammed Daud Khan, Afghani Statesman 1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 1976 Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany 1975 Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48 1974 Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70 1973 Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62 1970 Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 1969 Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70 1966 Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77 1965 Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80 1960 Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87 1955 Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43 1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed Hans Bloesch, writer, dies Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1944 Frank Knox, American Public Servant 1936 Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies 1935 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87 1933 Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31 1925 Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies 1923 Knute Nelson, American Politician 1896 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies 1887 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67 1873 A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88 1860 Isaac da Costa, poet and writer (Reveil, Wachter!), dies at 62 1858 Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist 1853 Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79 1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies 1799 Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62 1770 Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 1109 Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies 1089 Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies
