2001 Dick Schaap, sportscaster/writer, Flashing Before My Eyes, dies at 67 2001 Foster Brooks, comic, ", ""professional lush"", ", dies at 89 2000 Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63 1997 Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76 1997 Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78 1996 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 1996 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 1995 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72 1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85 1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 1992 Albert King, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71 1992 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87 1992 Stella Adler, U.S. actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90 1992 Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94 1989 Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed 1989 Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78 1989 Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed 1988 Bob Steele, Robert Bradbury, dies after short illness at 60 1988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 1987 Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies 1983 Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 1983 Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 1975 William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 1974 Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 1972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 1967 Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 1967 Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64 1965 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 1964 Carl Van Vechten, American Writer 1958 H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83 1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher and writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74 1957 Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71 1956 Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79 1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged 1945 George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60 1945 George S. Patton, American Soldier 1942 Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63 1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 1937 Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1937 Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician 1935 Kurt Tucholsky, Germany journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45 1933 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 1931 John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at 45 1928 Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 1921 P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician 1920 Claude Tozer, cricketer, dashing NSW batsman, shot to death 1907 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58 1890 Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73 1889 Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61 1864 William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51 1859 Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66 1820 Charles-Franeois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45 1765 Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor, dies at 70 1755 Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47 1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 1734 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54 1674 Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66 1597 Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76 1579 Juan de Juanes, Vicente J Maeip, Spanish relig painter, dies at 56 1429 Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death 1375 Boccaccio, writer, dies 1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies 1308 Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies 918 Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies
