2002 Josh Ryan Evans, actor, Passions, dies at 20 2000 Sir Alec Guinness, actor, Bridge on the River Kwai, dies at 86 1998 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician 1997 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 1996 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 1996 Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46 1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 1995 Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 1995 Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81 1994 Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39 1994 Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82 1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 1994 Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47 1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 1992 Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies 1991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies at 82 1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies 1989 Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68 1987 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 1984 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 1984 R Hagelstange, writer, dies 1984 Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58 1984 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72 1983 Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 1982 Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 1978 Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 1977 Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 1976 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 1972 Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 1971 Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 1964 Moa Martinson, writer, dies 1962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 1961 Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63 1961 Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1949 - 1957, dies at 67 1959 Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 1955 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 1950 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 1947 Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies 1943 Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55 1940 Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 1940 Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer 1932 Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies 1931 Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43 1916 George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31 1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46 1910 Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42 1907 Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 1901 Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 1900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 1895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies 1891 Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 1889 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 1870 Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier 1864 Griffin A Stedman, Union-Brigadier-General (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 1863 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53 1862 Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1856 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61 1852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian slavist/poet, dies at 53 1834 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 1830 Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68 1792 Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 1792 Lord North, British Statesman 1778 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 1644 J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
