2008 Albert Hofmann, dies in Switzerland, of natural causes, at 102 2005 Mel Gussow, American Critic 1997 Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64 1997 Peter Tali Coleman, Governor of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies 1997 Keith Ferguson, blues guy, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, dies at 50 1996 David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87 1996 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72 1995 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57 1994 Bill Quinn, U.S. actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81 1994 Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53 1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74 1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77 1993 Michael Gordon, actor and director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83 1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46 1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84 1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies 1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies 1988 Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74 1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25 1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English Director 1979 Julia A Perry, U.S. composer and conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55 1976 Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73 1975 Charles McMahon, Jr., U.S. USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam 1975 Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet 1975 Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam 1975 William Craig Nystul, USMC Captain, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet 1973 Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82 1972 Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup 1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25 1967 Anthony Mann, U.S. director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60 1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 1964 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77 1957 Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82 1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75 1954 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82 1953 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62 1951 Jules Verstraete, Julien G de Graef, actor (Boefje), dies at 67 1951 Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62 1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher 1947 Irving Fisher, U.S. economist, dies at 80 1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist and composer (Golem suite), dies at 56 1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68 1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 1937 William Gillette, American Actor 1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76 1935 Leroy Carr, rocker, dies= 1928 Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 1921 Arthur Mold, British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies 1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22 1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57 1871 John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 1864 Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 1841 A Bertrand, writer, dies 1813 Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67 1707 George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist 1699 Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50 1676 Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69 1535 John Houghton, English, executed 1499 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies 852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
