2007 Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54 2003 Alan Bates, actor, King of Hearts, dies at 69 2001 Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator 1999 Dick Peabody, actor, Combat, dies at 74 1999 Leonard Goldenson, TV executive, dies at 94 1997 Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83 1997 Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87 1997 Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74 1997 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75 1995 Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39 1995 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54 1995 Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86 1994 Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 1994 Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83 1994 Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64 1994 Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82 1993 Blandine Ebinger, Loeser, actress (Madchen in Uniform), dies at 94 1993 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75 1992 Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies 1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1991 Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43 1991 John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49 1991 W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies 1988 Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid and Nancy), dies 1988 Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59 1987 Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91 1987 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing 1986 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78 1985 Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda 1983 Walter Scott, rocker, dies 1982 John Leonard Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51 1981 Hoagy Carmichael, U.S. actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82 1979 Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered 1978 Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62 1978 Chris Bell, rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash 1978 Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53 1974 Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66 1974 Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76 1972 Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 1972 Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician 1959 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70 1957 Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66 1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 1950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 1944 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77 1944 Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician 1938 Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72 1938 O Mandelstam, writer, dies 1936 Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70 1931 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73 1931 Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56 1930 William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63 1925 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44 1925 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet 1924 William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68 1919 Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73 1919 Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68 1916 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70 1900 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90 1880 Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75 1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56 1858 Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73 1853 William Jay, English Clergyman 1836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43 1805 Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65 1800 Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian 1641 Francois van d'Aerssen, ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69 1631 John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47 1603 Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68 1595 Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63 1590 Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing, marquis of Renty, dies at 33 1065 Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castilie, dies 975 Balderik, bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies 418 Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
