2008 Adrian Mitchell, dies of pneumonia, at 76 2002 George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 1999 Hank Snow, Canadian Musician 1998 Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Betty Crocker, dies at 93 1997 Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 1996 Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 1995 John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55 1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State 1961 - 1969, dies at 85 J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75 David Dean Rusk, American Politician 1993 Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74 W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 1991 Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 Stephen Birnbaum, U.S. tourism writer, dies at 54 Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 1989 Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77 1988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 1984 Stanley Milgram, American Psychologist 1983 Bill Brandt, British Photographer Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida 1982 Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95 1976 Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80 Richard J. Daley, American Politician 1975 Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 1974 Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 1973 Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37 Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA 1972 Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 1971 Roy Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78 1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 1965 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 1963 Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54 1962 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75 1961 Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57 1954 Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 1948 C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85 1947 St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 1944 Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70 1942 Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63 1939 Hans Langsdorff, German Captain (Graaf Spee), commits suicide 1937 Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 1936 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid 1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 1916 Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 1909 Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 1903 Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 1896 Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies 1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US 1875 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 1821 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 1819 Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 1815 Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 1812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis and Clark, dies 1803 Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman 1799 David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 1798 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 1793 Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 1783 Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 1749 Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 1679 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 1676 John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 1632 Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed 1590 Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80 1355 Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies 1073 Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies 910 Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies 69 Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine and 7th emperor, murdered