2005 Robert Moog, American Inventor 2003 Wesley Willis, American Musician 2000 Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78 1997 Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies 1996 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 1996 Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82 1995 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 1995 Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39 1995 James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72 1995 Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76 1995 Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61 1995 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69 1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 1994 Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 1994 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73 1992 Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 1992 Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65 1991 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 1991 Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75 1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies 1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya 1988 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78 1987 Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies 1983 Benigno S Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 1982 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies 1981 Hermann Schey, German/Netherlands singer, dies at 85 1978 Charles Eames, U.S. chair manufacturer, dies at 71 1977 Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87 1974 Mascha Kaleko, writer, German language poet, dies at 48 1971 George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29 1970 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79 1968 Vladimir Boudnik, Czechoslovakian sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1958 Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73 1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44 1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies 1949 Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies 1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 1943 William Lyon Phelps, American Educator 1942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies 1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 1940 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68 1935 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 1932 Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 1888 Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 1864 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 1856 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 1838 A vs. Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 1838 Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet 1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 1824 Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62 1812 Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 1798 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 1798 James Wilson, American Politician 1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies 1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 1772 Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48 1723 Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1673 John de Love I, Vice-Admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies 1627 Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 1516 John III van Egmont, Manke John, viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies 1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies 1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
