2000 Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman 1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70 1995 Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85 1994 John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59 1994 Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70 1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96 1994 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64 1994 Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78 1993 Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76 1993 Lucinda Ballard, U.S. costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90 1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48 1990 Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80 1987 Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies 1986 Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79 1986 Jacob A. W. Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81 1986 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies 1981 Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74 1979 Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack 1977 Groucho Martin, New York City, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86 1977 Groucho Marx, American Comedian 1976 Alastair Sim, actor 'Christmas Carol', 'Green for Danger', dies at 75 1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70 1974 ... Davies, U.S. ambassador on Cyprus, murdered 1971 Walther Victor, writer, dies 1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44 1967 Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84 1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60 1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 1959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78 1958 Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63 1955 Geza Revesz, Hungary/Dutch psychologist (Talent and genius), dies at 76 1954 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 1947 Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67 1945 Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher 1944 Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62 1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57 1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81 1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67 1909 Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies 1892 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62 1891 Gestur Palsson, Icelandic writer (Verdandi, Ritsafn), dies at 38 1889 Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60 1888 Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65 1881 Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79 1876 George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36 1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63 1853 George Cockburn, British Soldier 1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80 1823 Robert Bloomfield, English Poet 1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62 1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54 1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61 1812 Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56 1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67 1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32 1753 [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66 1744 Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46 1719 Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 1699 Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69 1691 Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle 1662 Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher 1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies 1650 Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55 1601 Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies 1580 Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71 1493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 472 Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies 440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
