2008 Conor Cruise O'Brien, dies at 91, in his home overlooking Dublin Bay 2008 W. Mark Felt, dies in his sleep, in Santa Rosa, California, at 95 2000 Barney McNulty, production assistant, invented cue cards, dies at 77 2000 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter, Tropical Brainstorm, dies at 41 1999 Robert Bresson, French Director 1997 Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33 1996 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74 1995 Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70 1995 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 1995 Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1994 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71 1994 Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98 1994 Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 1993 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74 1992 Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83 1992 Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77 1992 Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87 1992 Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies 1991 June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 1990 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 1990 Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76 1986 Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies 1982 Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Netherlands cellist, dies at 70 1981 Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 1977 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80 1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 1973 Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64 1971 Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 1971 Bobby Jones, Jr., PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69 1971 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45 1966 Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico 1963 Winifried P I Zillig, German composer and conductor (Opfer), dies at 58 1959 Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66 1948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers 1939 Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51 1935 Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies 1932 Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82 1931 John T "Legs" Diamond, U.S. gangster, murdered at 35 1928 Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 1919 Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 1919 John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 1918 Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 1915 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75 1911 Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79 1899 John William Glover, composer, dies at 84 1897 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 1892 Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 1881 George Edmund Street, English Architect 1869 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 1865 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70 1862 Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect and Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1858 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81 1841 Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60 1839 Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75 1835 Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82 1831 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 1829 Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 1803 Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 1779 Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68 1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62 1737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93 1732 Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59 1710 Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62 1651 Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54 1638 Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies 1633 Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62 1597 Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 1577 Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32 1565 Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 1505 John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed 1290 Magnus I Ladulas, Barn Bolt, king of Sweden (1277-90), dies 468 Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita
