2010 Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols manager/notorious for the banned "God Save the Queen" single, dies in New York. 2007 Sol LeWitt, dies in New York, of complications from cancer, at 78 2003 Maki Ishii, composer, contemporary classical music, dies of thyroid cancer in Kashiwa, Japan, at age 66 2002 Maria Felix, Mexican Actress 2001 Frank Annunzio, Representative-D-Illinois 1965 - 1973 and 1973 - 1993, died from Parkinson's disease 2000 Claire Trevor, actress, Stagecoach, dies at 91 1997 Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49 1997 Laura Nyro, singer, dies at 49 1997 Charles Hayes, Representative-D-Illinois 1983 - 1993, died from lung cancer at the age of 79 1996 Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner, dies at 80 1996 Ben Johnson, cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77 1996 Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67 1994 Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash 1994 Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91 1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64 1993 Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78 1993 H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies 1993 Marian Anderson, U.S. contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96 1992 Nelson Olmstead, dies at 78 1990 Doreen Sloane, dies 1990 Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56 1990 Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18 1987 Francis C Denebrink, U.S. Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90 1981 Norman Taurog, dies 1981 Omar Bradley, last U.S. 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88 1978 Ford Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83 1977 Frank Milan, actor (Witness), dies at 71 1976 Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35 1973 Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91 1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist 1970 Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies 1969 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78 1966 George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1965 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 1965 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh and Devil), dies after illness at 78 1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies 1950 Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63 1950 Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London 1948 Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40 1943 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed 1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win U.S. amateur national tennis match, dies at 81 1942 Alfred Mombert, writer, dies 1941 Eugene-Marcel Prevost, novelist, dies 1937 Arthur William Foote, U.S. organist/composer, dies at 84 1937 William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77 1935 Edwin Cannan, economist, dies 1931 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies 1921 Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies 1920 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, U.S. composer (White Peacock), dies at 35 1919 Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70 1914 Jakub Arbes, Czechoslovakian author (Andel Miru), dies at 73 1902 Sipyagain, Russian Minister of Interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated 1897 George Garrett, composer, dies at 62 1897 Heinrich von Stephan, U.K. politician, dies 1894 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55 1890 Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76 1885 Susanna Moodie, British Author 1871 Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer, dies at 68 1870 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist and composer, dies at 68 1865 John Park, composer, dies at 61 1863 Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70 1861 Elisha G Otis, U.S. elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50 1858 Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76 1853 Jan W. Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73 1851 John Parry, composer, dies at 75 1848 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50 1848 Gaetano Donizetti, composer, dies at 50 1844 Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72 1835 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator 1794 Marquis de Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) , philosopher, mathematician, early political scientist and inventor of the Condorcet method, dies 1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76 1759 Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76 1736 Pedro Vaz Rego, composer, dies at 63 1697 Niels Juel, Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjogebocht), dies at 67 1629 Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar, dies at 50 1537 Willem Aerts, Flemish architect, dies 1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27 1492 Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico", ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies 1364 Jan II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44 1143 John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident 217 Caracalla, Marcus Antoniius, Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
