1997 Brandon Tartikoff, TV executive (NBC), dies at 48 1997 Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman and Robin), dies of heart failure at 40 1996 Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82 1996 Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies 1996 Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61 1995 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78 1995 Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88 1995 Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70 1994 Roberto Goyeneche, El Polaco, Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies 1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71 1991 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies 1991 Vince Taylor, Brian Holden, British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies 1990 Raymond St. Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35 1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69 1984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73 1981 Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62 1980 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68 1979 Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82 1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14 1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51 1977 George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86 1977 Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59 1975 Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83 1971 Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73 1971 Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, dies at 67 1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79 1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies 1969 Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies 1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies 1968 Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies 1967 Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32 1967 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63 1965 Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68 1965 Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret, Swiss/French architect, dies at 77 1965 Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66 1964 Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59 1964 Gracie Allen, actress (Burns and Allen), dies at 62 1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies 1962 Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79 1958 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1958 Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist 1955 Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies 1953 Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53 1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41 1949 Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67 1948 Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74 1948 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50 1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge 1943 Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies 1937 Andrew Mellon, American Businessman 1931 Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies 1931 Frank Harris, Irish Author 1930 Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62 1922 Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83 1919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies 1914 John Weiss, German new testament, dies 1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death 1887 Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74 1883 August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76 1879 Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84 1874 Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies 1874 John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies 1868 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82 1867 Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51 1865 Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64 1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author 1855 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36 1846 Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64 1846 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63 1841 Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65 1840 William Kneass, 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office 1830 Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74 1828 Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84 1827 Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies 1748 James Thomson, dies 1746 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies 1667 Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33 1651 Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43 1635 Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright 1611 Tomas L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies 1608 Hendrik van Kinschot, Henricus Kinschotus, lawyer, dies at 66 1590 Sixtus V, Felice Peretti/"Montalto", Pope (1585-90), dies at 68 1576 Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague 1522 Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75 1521 Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies 1208 Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
