2006 Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland 2003 William V. Roth, Jr., Representative-R-Delaware 1967 - 1971, Senator-R-Delaware 1971 - 2001 1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94 1997 Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 1997 Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83 1996 Cao Yu, playwright, dramatist, dies at 86 1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61 1996 Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76 1996 Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89 1995 Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81 1995 Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43 1994 Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies 1994 Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83 1994 Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60 1994 Glenn M. Anderson, Representative-D-California 1969 - 1993 1993 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 1993 Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88 1992 Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestral leader (duivelswiel), dies 1991 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82 1990 Alice Marble, California, tennis star, dies at 77 1990 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69 1986 Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77 1986 Ella Baker, American Activist 1983 Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit), dies at 60 1983 Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies 1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 1981 Cornelius Cardew, composer, dies at 45 1981 Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75 1980 Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73 1979 Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66 1976 Eduard Claudius, writer, dies 1975 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 1975 Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73 1974 Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66 1973 Henry Green, English Novelist 1971 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88 1969 Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83 1968 Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 1966 Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer 1963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 1961 Grandma [Anna M] Moses, U.S. painter, dies at 101 1961 John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies 1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed 1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed 1958 Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66 1958 Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed 1958 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70 1951 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73 1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide 1945 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83 1944 Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34 1944 Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78 1944 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist 1942 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78 1940 Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies 1929 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42 1924 Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74 1919 Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74 1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 1898 George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72 1894 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 1881 August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43 1872 Helena Beeloo, Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut 1872 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut 1863 Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50 1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 1862 Maxcy Gregg, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1814 Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79 1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68 1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63 1784 Samuel Johnson, English Author 1774 Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 1769 C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 1738 Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59 1729 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53 1693 Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies 1693 Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82 1672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1622 Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50 1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 1574 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50 1565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 1557 Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies 1521 Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52 1404 Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74 1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1126 Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies 1124 Callistus II, Guido di Borgogna, Italian Pope (1119-24), dies 1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74 838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies
