2004 Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69 2004 Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 1999 Clayton Moore, actor, The Lone Ranger, dies at 85 1997 George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80 1997 James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89 1997 Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68 1995 Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84 1994 Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60 1993 Howard Caine, dies 1993 Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61 1993 William L Shirer, writer (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89 1992 Mort Greene, U.S. songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80 1991 Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 1991 Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure 1990 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65 1990 Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46 1990 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies 1989 Robert Wickler, dies 1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky, dies 1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77 1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 1983 Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 1983 William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91 1982 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director 1980 Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die 1980 Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart 1978 Harry Winston, U.S. jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82 1976 Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 1971 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 1970 Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64), dies 1970 L. Mendel Rivers, Representative-D-South Carolina 1941 - 1970, dies at 65 1969 Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 1967 Bela Schick, Hungarian/U.S. children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 1963 A. J. Liebling, American journalist and writer, dies 1963 Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 1961 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 1956 Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 1949 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand/U.S. surgeon/athlete 1936 Olympics gold, dies at 39 1949 W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 1949 Hervey Allen, American Author 1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated 1947 Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 1946 Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 1945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 1938 Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 1937 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 1935 Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies 1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies 1918 George H. White, American Politician 1916 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81 1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 1903 George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 1891 Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47 1884 Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56 1878 Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90 1876 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish poet (Abels dod), dies at 67 1874 Gerrit Smith, American Politician 1870 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72 1870 Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64 1862 Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54 1860 Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies 1830 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83 1793 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75 1779 Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64 1775 Peter A van de Parra, Governor-General of (Netherlands Indies), dies at 61 1772 Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82 1706 Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 1694 Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 1673 Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77 1622 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 1622 Saint Francis de Sales, Swiss Clergyman 1542 Albert Pigge, Pighius, Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 1446 Clemens VIII, Aegyd Munoz, Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
