2008 Isaac Hayes, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, of a stroke, at 65 2000 Joan Marsh, actress, Road to Zanzibar, dies at 86 1999 Jennifer Paterson, cook/writer/motorcyclist, Two Fat Ladies, dies at 71 1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43 1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78 1996 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76 1995 Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81 1994 Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58 1994 Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91 1994 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curaeao, murdered at 58 1993 Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies 1988 Adela Rogers St. John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94 1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 1987 Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies 1987 Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86 1987 I. W. Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87 1987 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies 1985 Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72 1979 Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 1977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75 1976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74 1974 Ilona Massey, actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64 1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 1974 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Comedy Hour), dies at 92 1973 Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies at 57 1970 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52 1967 John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83 1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79 1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies 1963 Estes Kefauver, Senator-D-Tennessee 1949 - 1963, dies at 60 1963 Matya Rakosi, Rosencranz, premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days 1962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60 1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies 1960 Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician 1960 Edith Rogers, American Politician 1948 E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63 1945 Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62 1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies 1943 C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1938 Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73 1934 John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73 1932 Slang, writer, dies 1929 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75 1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies 1911 Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70 1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged 1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies 1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet 1886 Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85 1875 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 1867 Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1859 George Staunton, writer 1857 John Wilson Croker, politician 1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies 1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37 1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52 1806 Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68 1802 Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77 1784 Allan Ramsay, artist 1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46 1730 Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74 1723 Abbe Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies 1717 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies 1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 1653 Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, Bestevaer, Lieutenant-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered 1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30