2005 Kerry Packer, Australian Businessman 2004 Reggie White, football player, dies at 43 2002 Herb Ritts, photographer, dies at 50 2001 Nigel Hawthorne, actor, The Madness of King George, dies at 72 2000 Jason Robards, actor, All the President's Men, dies at 78 2000 Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78 1999 Curtis Mayfield, composer/singer, People Get Ready, dies at 57 1997 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81 1997 John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92 1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Netherlands welfare worker, dies at 74 1994 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies 1994 Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies 1994 Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80 1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 1994 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61 1993 Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80 1992 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74 1992 Constance Carpenter, actress (2 Worlds), dies of stroke at 87 1992 John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies 1992 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80 1991 Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70 1991 Sam Cresson, dies at 73 1989 Lennox Berkeley, composer, dies at 86 1989 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies 1988 John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90 1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84 1985 Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53 1977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81 1977 Ivan Rezak, composer, dies at 53 1974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80 1974 Knudage Riisager, composer, dies at 77 1974 Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68 1973 Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74 1973 Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69 1973 William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73 1972 Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1945-53), dies in Kansas City, Missouri at 88 1972 Harry S. Truman, American President 1971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 1968 Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, American Photographer 1968 Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian 1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 1966 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91 1966 Noel Gallon, composer, dies at 75 1965 Anthonie Donker, Dutch, literary, dies at 63 1963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies 1960 Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54 1958 Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday 1957 Artur Malawski, composer, dies at 53 1956 Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss), dies at 74 1952 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 1950 Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47 1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68 1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at 24 1937 Ivor Gurney, composer, dies at 47 1933 Lunatscharski, writer, dies 1931 Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1930 Kin Hubbard, American Journalist 1918 Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65 1917 Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71 1916 Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81 1909 Frederic Remington, American Artist 1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 1887 Jules Francois Blasini, Curaeaos pianist/composer, dies at 40 1886 John A. Logan, American Soldier 1879 Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, dies 1866 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49 1862 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato 1861 Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at 52 1837 Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 1836 Hans Georg Nageli, composer, dies at 63 1827 Jan David Holland, composer, dies at 81 1797 John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 1776 Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle 1771 Claude A Helvetius, French encyclopedist (L'esprit), dies at 56 1740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies 1736 Antonio Caldara, composer, dies 1679 John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53 1676 Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies 1658 Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78 1627 Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies 1624 Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54 1574 Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50 1530 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan, murdered 267 Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies
