2008 David Foster Wallace, dies in California, of suicide, at 46 2007 Ike Turner, dies in California, of a cocaine overdose, at 76 2000 George Montgomery, sculptor/actor, dies at 84 1999 Joseph Heller, writer, Catch-22, dies at 76 1998 Lord Lew Grade, producer, The Muppet Show, dies at 91 1998 Mo Udall, born in St. Johns, Arizona, Representative-D-Arizona 1961 - 1991, died of Parkinson disease 1996 Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70 1996 Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81 1996 Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91 1996 Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77 1996 Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82 1995 David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63 1995 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97 1995 James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76 1995 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies 1995 Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95 1995 Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50 1994 Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 1994 Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83 1994 John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68 1994 Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at 46 1993 Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90 1993 Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58 1993 Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61 1992 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87 1991 Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93 1991 Ken Keltner, U.S. baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75 1991 Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies 1988 John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 1987 Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83 1985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62 1985 Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road manager (Rolling Stones), dies at 47 1978 Clifton Chenier, U.S. accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53 1978 Fay Compton, actress (Othello), dies at 74 1977 Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92 1976 Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He and She), dies at 49 1971 David Sarnoff, U.S. TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80 1971 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43 1971 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated 1971 John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47 1970 Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82 1968 Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 1965 Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67 1962 Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67 1961 Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91 1959 Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79 1957 Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35 1956 Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83 1947 Julio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at 70 1946 Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Abelard and Heloise), dies at 67 1939 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56 1937 Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57 1933 Theodore Moses Tobani, composer, dies at 78 1932 Egon Richter, writer, dies 1929 Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity 1927 Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67 1926 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 1921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies 1920 Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 1920 Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82 1917 Andrew Taylor Still, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine, died at age 89 1912 Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91 1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77 1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 1877 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 1872 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72 1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 1836 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67 1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 1772 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41 1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch Admiral (Chatham), dies in battle 1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies 1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies 1204 Maimonides, Moses Ben Maimon, Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 1112 Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies 884 Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
