2002 Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80 2000 Loretta Young, actress, The Bishop's Wife, dies at 87 1997 Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57 1996 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73 1996 Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87 1995 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68 1994 Gene Cherico, bassist, American jazz, toured with Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded with Paul Desmond, dies at 59 1994 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51 1993 Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69 1992 Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63 1992 John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79 1992 Lady Rothermere, Bubbles, wife of British newspaper magnate, dies 1992 Queen Mother of Oman, dies 1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies 1991 William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies 1990 Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87 1990 Sara Seegar, Stone, actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76 1989 William Shockley, American Physicist 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, U.S. musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies 1985 Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86 1982 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80 1982 Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77 1982 Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49 1976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies 1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist 1969 Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72 1968 Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 1967 Esther Forbes, American Author 1964 Ian Fleming, British journalist and creator of 'James Bond', dies at 56 1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1944 Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer and choreographer (Fates d'Hebe), dies at 66 1943 Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76 1938 Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74 1934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78 1928 Leos Janacek, Czechoslovakian composer and conductor (Sly Little Fox), dies at 74 1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies 1918 Anna Held, Polish Entertainer 1914 John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies 1911 Jozef Israels, painter, dies 1911 Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79 1901 Nils Adolf Erik, Baron Nordenskjold, geologist/explorer, dies 1900 James E Keeler, U.S. astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42 1891 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies 1885 Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 1885 Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer 1883 Last Quagga, zebra with less slashes (in Artis), dies 1877 James Drummond, historical painter, dies 1865 William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies 1857 William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies 1849 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Minister of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 1849 Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman 1848 George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies 1830 Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50 1827 William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 1822 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies 1812 Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81 1811 John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 1797 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 1750 Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies 1728 Henricus Zwaardecroon, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 61 1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies 1689 Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, Pope (1676-89), dies at 78 1676 King Philip, Metacomet, leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death 1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, GermanNetherlands baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 1674 Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies 1660 Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 1654 Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 1638 Johannes Althusius, Althaut, German lawyer, dies at about 81 1633 Jacopo Peri, Italian opera composer, dies at 71 1612 Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 1588 Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45 1546 Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies 1484 Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere, Pope (1471-84), dies 1350 Philip VI, king of France, dies 1158 Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies 875 Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50
