2007 Grace Paley, dies in Vermont, of breast cancer, at 84 2004 Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director 1997 Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82 1997 Robin Skelton, British Writer 1996 David Donaldson, painter, dies at 80 1996 Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77 1996 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87 1995 Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83 1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80 1993 Don Getz, U.S. filmer (Playpoint) 1993 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated 1991 Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide 1991 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67 1990 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45 1989 Diana Vreeland, American Editor 1984 Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57 1980 James S. McDonnell, American Businessman 1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 1979 James T Farrell, U.S. writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies 1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 1978 Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83 1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59 1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 1976 Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire 1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 1974 Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist 1973 Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 1970 Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78 1967 Tom Conway, actor (Mrs Minerva), dies of liver ailment at 63 1966 Apolinary Szeluto, composer, dies at 82 1965 Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies 1963 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies 1963 Eric Johnston, American Businessman 1962 R A Schroder, writer, dies 1958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies 1944 Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55 1942 Henry Eichheim, composer, dies at 72 1942 Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies 1942 Alice Duer Miller, American Poet 1937 David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies 1936 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99 1933 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62 1929 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74 1926 Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92 1926 Charles W. Eliot, American Educator 1926 Charles William Eliot, American Educator 1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush 1920 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60 1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1912 Pope Gregory IX, dies 1903 Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 1901 Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83 1893 Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75 1891 John Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Povidky Malostranske), dies at 57 1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 1889 John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies 1886 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67 1879 Friedrich August Kummer, composer, dies at 82 1874 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies 1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies 1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 1850 Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48 1831 John White, composer, dies at 52 1828 Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70 1818 Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85 1806 Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter/engraver, dies at 74 1801 Pieter G van Overstraten, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 46 1793 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80 1755 Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies 1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 1532 William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 1485 Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57 1350 Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies 1286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered 1280 Nicholas III, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Italian Pope (1277-80), dies 1241 Gregory IX, Ugolino di Segni, Italian Pope, dies 1188 Ferdinand II, king of Castilie/Leon/Asturie/Galicie, dies 634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies 408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48
