2007 Phil Rizzuto, dies in New Jersey, in his sleep, at 89 2004 Julia Child, French Chef, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, dies at 91 2003 Ed Townsend, American Musician 1996 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86 1996 Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies 1996 David Tudor, composer, dies at 70 1996 Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46 1996 W. Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67 1995 Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 33 1995 Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84 1995 Mickey Mantle, baseball great, New York Yankees, dies of cancer at 63 1995 Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81 1994 Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59 1994 Elias Canetti, Swiss Author 1992 Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40 1992 Clifford Allison, U.S. stock-car racer, dies in an accident 1992 David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia 1992 Jan Elburg, Joannes G, poet (Geen letterheren), dies 1991 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65 1991 James Roosevelt, American Politician 1991 Richard Snelling, American Politician 1990 Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86 1989 Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS 1988 Otto E. Passman, Representative-D-Louisiana 1947 - 1977, dies at 88 1987 Vincent Persichetti, U.S. composer (Sibyl), dies at 72 1986 Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies 1985 Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67 1984 Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92 1982 Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70 1982 Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77 1982 Joe Tex, Joseph Arrington Jr, singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49 1977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies 1975 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is Culture?), dies at 81 1974 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76 1973 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75 1972 George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78 1971 King Curtis, Curtis Ousley, U.S. musician, murdered at 37 1970 Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75 1967 Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87 1961 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78 1959 Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57 1954 Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71 1953 Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80 1951 Emmet Fox, American Author 1948 Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62 1947 Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies 1946 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79 1946 Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33 1946 H. G. Wells, English Author 1940 George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75 1933 Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80 1928 Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74 1927 James Curwood, U.S. journalist and writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49 1924 Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56 1916 Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61 1915 George Joseph Smith, British Criminal 1913 F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies 1912 Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70 1912 Jules Massenet, French Composer 1910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90 1908 Ira D Sankey, U.S. evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67 1897 Antonius von der Linde, Netherlands/German librarian, dies at 63 1896 John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 1895 Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies 1886 Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 1865 Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 1860 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies 1841 Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 1841 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies 1808 Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81 1787 Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies 1762 John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64 1749 J E Schlegel, writer, dies 1674 Lars Johnstown, Lasse Lucidor, Swedish poet, dies at 35 1667 Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman 1637 Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies 1278 Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 1191 Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies 1134 Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies 900 Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 662 Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies 587 Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies
