2005 William Proxmire, Senator-D-Wisconsin, 1957 - 1989, Golden Fleece Awards, died of Alzheimer's disease 1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 1997 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 1996 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 1996 Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 1996 Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 1996 Tristan Keuris, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto', dies in Amsterdam, Holland 1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 1995 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 1994 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 1994 Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99 1994 Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88 1994 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 1993 Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies 1992 Fre [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 71 1991 Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 1991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 1990 Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies 1990 Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies 1990 Ed Parker, American Athlete 1989 Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 1985 Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician 1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 1984 Jan Peerce, Perelmuth, operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke 1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 1978 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 1974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89 1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 1972 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 1972 Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 1968 Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation 1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 1961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 1953 Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 1951 Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 1950 Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh Author, dies 1946 Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 1946 Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77 1946 Josiah Bailey, American Politician 1944 Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 1943 Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri 1943 Fats Waller, American Musician 1934 Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 1909 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57 1901 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67 1896 John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 1892 Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US 1889 Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies at 73 1880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 1861 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 1839 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 1831 Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba/Curaeao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 1822 Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 1817 Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies 1816 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44 1796 Anthony Wayne, American Soldier 1792 Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36 1779 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62 1715 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 1712 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 1699 Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63 1688 Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Netherlands grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54 1675 John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 1626 Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 1621 Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 1598 Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 1576 Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 1515 Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies 1230 Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies 1025 Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
