2005 T. Cooper Evans, Representative-R-Iowa, 1981 - 1987 2002 Joe Strummer, rocker, The Clash, dies at 50 2002 Kenneth Tobey, actor, dies at 85 2001 Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50 2000 Florynce Rae Kennedy, lawyer/lecturer, dies at 84 1998 Virginia Graham, talk show host/writer, dies at 86 1997 Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81 1997 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 1997 Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71 1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 1997 Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, Peerage of Great Britain, dies at 67 1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 1995 Butterfly McQueen, actress 'Gone With the Wind', dies in a fire at 84 1995 James Meade, English Economist 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 1993 Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 1992 Frederick W. Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99 1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91 1990 Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76 1990 Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies 1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies 1987 Alice Terry, Taaffe, actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies 1987 Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82 1986 Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84 1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47 1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77 1977 Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82 1974 Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70 1974 Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50 1974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87 1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72 1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58 1971 Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63 1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80 1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52 1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 1968 Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48 1965 Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62 1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66 1959 Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60 1958 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74 1951 Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61 1950 Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70 1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88 1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday 1944 Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 1941 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83 1940 Nathanael West, Weinstein, U.S. writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 1939 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53 1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 1923 Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67 1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 1917 Francesca Saveria Cabrini, U.S. saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 1906 Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies 1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 1899 Dwight L Moody, U.S. evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies 1899 Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman 1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 1893 Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday 1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 1874 Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 1863 Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36 1832 Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies 1815 Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards 1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies 1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 1723 Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery 1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies 1641 Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 1603 Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed 1419 John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies 1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
