2004 Renata Tebaldi, opera singer, dies at 82 2003 Hope Lange, actress, movie version of Peyton Place, dies at 70 2000 Robert Buck, rock guitarist/songwriter, ", 10,000 Maniacs, ", dies at 42 2000 John Lindsay, American Politician 1999 Desmond Llewelyn, actor, Q in many James Bond movies, dies at 85 1997 David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 1997 Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89 1996 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72 1996 Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78 1996 Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82 1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79 1995 Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85 1994 Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39 1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47 1993 Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77 1993 Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49 1991 Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81 1991 Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70 1990 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71 1990 Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher 1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 1986 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author 1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71 1982 Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95 1979 Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian 1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 1967 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78 1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117 1957 John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56 1953 Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 1953 Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies 1951 Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51 1945 John Amery, British Politician 1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle 1939 Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70 1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57 1925 Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44 1915 Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 1914 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 1911 John Bigelow, American Lawyer 1867 Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57 1851 J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76 1851 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1848 Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77 1848 Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1823 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67 1815 Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65 1815 Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83 1810 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68 1804 Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1800 Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66 1798 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 1749 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 1741 Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies 1614 Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 1370 Urban V, Guillaume de Grimoard, 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies 401 Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
