2009 Ellie Greenwich, record producer, singer, songwriter, rock and roll, pop music genres, co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron', dies in Manhattan, New York, at age 68 2005 Wolfgang Bauer, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change', dies of heart failure in Graz, Styria 2004 Laura Branigan, singer, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?, dies at 47 1998 Frederick Reines, American Physicist 1996 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 1996 Catherine Mary Hall, nurse, dies at 73 1995 David James Moore, educationalist, dies at 62 1995 Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86 1995 Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro, dies at 49 1995 Ronald Anthony White, Jr., singer, dies at 57 1994 Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54 1993 Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61 1992 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies 1989 Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies 1989 Irving Stone, U.S. writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies 1988 Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer, dies 1986 Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park 1986 Ted Knight, Tadeus Konopka, actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62 1985 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76 1984 Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67 1983 Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer 1981 Lee Hays, rocker, dies of a heart attack 1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 1980 Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71 1980 Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, doc?), dies at 72 1978 Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78 1978 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86 1977 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78 1977 Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67 1977 Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34 1976 Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88 1976 Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65 1975 Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80 1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, dies at 72 1972 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 1971 Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88 1968 Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 1967 Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67 1966 Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67 1963 Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67 1961 Gail Russell, actress 'Calcutta', 'Moonrise', 'El Paso', dies at 36 1960 Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81 1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85 1949 Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70 1948 Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor and composer (Imbapara), dies at 50 1945 Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 1930 Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47 1921 Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies 1921 Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45 1921 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies 1910 William James, American Philosopher 1894 PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok 1873 Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57 1869 Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54 1865 Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 1865 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1863 John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies 1860 Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 1860 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 1849 Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66 1832 Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96 1813 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63 1813 Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 1770 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42 1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 1712 Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80 1683 Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76 1661 Louis Couperin, composer, dies 1616 Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 1518 Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara 1486 Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45 1368 Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies 1346 Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle 1278 Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle 526 Theodorik the Great, King of Italy, dies
