1996 Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89 1995 Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85 1995 Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65 1995 Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38 1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74 1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered 1994 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25 1993 Rene Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 1993 E. P. Thompson, British Historian 1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies 1991 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies 1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies 1988 Hazel Dawn, U.S. singer and actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98 1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88 1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 1982 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 1979 Simonow, writer, dies 1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 1972 William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 1971 Nathan Leopold, U.S. kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies 1969 Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74 1968 John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies 1968 Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58 1967 Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies 1967 Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund] actor (Good Earth), dies at 71 1964 Gracie Allen, Mrs. George Burns/comedian (Burns and Allen), dies at 62 1964 Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89 1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies 1960 Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81 1959 Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czechoslovakian composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68 1958 Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67 1951 Robert Walker, actor and writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32 1944 Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald 1943 Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies 1931 Francis Bellamy, American Clergyman 1930 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies 1922 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80 1919 Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies 1916 Francis W. Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies 1914 Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 1914 Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59 1903 August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70 1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect 1900 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies 1885 Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66 1861 William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist 1859 James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Writer 1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies 1803 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies 1798 James Wilson, Scottish lawyer, U.S. judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies 1778 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies 1767 Johann Schobert, composer, dies 1677 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54 1676 Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57 1654 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71 1647 Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53 1646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 1645 Hugo Grotius, Dutch Theologian 1550 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's Assistant Secretary of State, dies 1544 Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53 1539 Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75 1484 Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered 1481 Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies 1065 Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Netherlands-Lutherans (1046-65) 876 Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies 430 Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 430 Saint Augustine, saint and Doctor of the Church, patron saint of brweers, printers, and theologians, dies at age 75 388 Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
