2006 Joseph Stefano, American Writer 2002 William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82 2001 Aaliyah, actress, model, singer, appeared in film, 'Romeo Must Die', successful album, 'One in a Million', dies in Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas, at age 22, in a plane crash 2000 Carl Barks, cartoonist, Donald Duck, dies at 99 1998 Lewis Powell, Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90 1998 Marshall Barer, lyricist, Once Upon a Mattress, dies at 75 1997 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies 1997 James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70 1997 Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78 1996 Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64 1996 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58 1996 Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67 1996 Les Burns, local councillor, dies at 53 1996 Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86 1995 John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60 1995 R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41 1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer 1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52 1993 Amy Biehl, U.S. activist in South Africa, murdered at 26 1992 Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65 1992 Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White and 21), dies at 86 1992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78 1991 Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56 1991 Niven Busch, U.S. writer (Duel in the Sun), dies 1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide 1989 Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80 1988 Price Daniel, Governor-D-Texas 1957 - 1963 and Senator-D-Texas 1953 - 1957, dies at 77 1986 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51 1985 Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13 1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59 1984 Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84 1982 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27 1980 Gower Champion, dancer (Marge and Gower Champion Show), dies at 60 1979 Stan Kenton, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at 67 1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76 1975 Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at 75 1975 John R Dunning, U.S. physicist, dies at 67 1972 Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71 1972 Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80 1971 Ted Lewis, Theodore L Friedman, bandleader, dies at 80 1968 John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated 1967 Paul Muni, actor (Good Earth), dies after lengthy illness at 71 1958 Leo Blech, studied with Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer, dies at 87 1957 Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria 1956 Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies 1956 Alfred Kinsey, American Scientist 1947 Clark Wissler, U.S. cultural anthropologist, dies at 76 1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death 1944 Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies 1942 George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews, dies in battle at 39 1942 Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70 1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded 1938 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67 1936 Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies 1930 Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61 1904 William Hall, Canadian Soldier 1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever 1900 Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher 1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60 1868 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62 1868 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66 1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 1842 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80 1840 K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44 1835 Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Illinois at 22 1822 F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85 1800 Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer 1791 Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies 1789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, dies 1776 David Hume, Scottish Philosopher 1774 Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59 1773 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29 1742 Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer, dies at 38 1688 Henry Morgan, Welsh lieutenant governor of Jamaica 1650 Richard Crashaw, English Poet 1649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 1649 Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman 1580 Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies 1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54 1554 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies 1346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle 1270 Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56 1227 Ghengis Khan, Temudjin, founded Mongolia, dies 882 Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19 383 Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25 79 Gaius Plinius Secundus, Plinius Maior, Roman admiral/writer, dies
