2008 Sammy Baugh, dies in Texas, at 94 2004 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist 1999 "Grover Washington, Jr", jazz musician, Aria, dies at 56 Rex Allen, actor/voice, dies at 78 1997 Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 1996 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85 Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101 Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22 Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61 Stanko Todorov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1971 - 1981, dies 1995 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 1993 Frederik JW "Fried" Lowensteyn, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 71 Janet Margolin, U.S. actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer 1992 Dana Andrews, U.S. actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 1990 Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79 1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, dies at 87 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 1986 Ron Kass, record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer 1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies 1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90 1978 Don Ellis, American Musician 1975 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 1973 Charles G Abbot, U.S. astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74 1972 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 1967 Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago, Illinois, architect, dies at 83 Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician 1966 Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 1964 Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist 1962 Thomas Mitchell, U.S., actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 1961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 1957 Dorothy Sayers, Atherton Fleming, author (Whose body), dies at 64 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author 1956 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 1949 David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 1948 Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 1946 Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 1944 Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies 1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 1933 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 1930 Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36 1926 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70 1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated 1913 Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61 1907 Kelvin of Largs, William Thomson, Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle 1893 Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 1891 Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle 1881 Lewis H Morgan, U.S. ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 1870 Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 1847 Marie Louise, French Royalty 1833 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 1830 Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia 1829 Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80 1811 John Antes, composer, dies at 71 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54 1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czechoslovakian master builder, dies at 62 1711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies 1679 Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies 1651 Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 1562 Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82 1471 Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies 1273 Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies 1213 Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53 1195 Boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies 1187 Gregory VIII, Alberto de Morra, Italian Pope (1187), dies
