2008 Roy Scheider, dies in Little Rock, Arkansas, complications from a staph infection, at 75 2005 Fritz Scholder, American Artist 2003 Ron Ziegler, American Politician 2002 Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier 2002 Jack Henry Abbott, American Author 2000 Jim Varney, actor, Ernest Goes to Camp, dies at 50 1998 Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9 1998 Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies 1997 Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47 1997 Milton Cato, Prime Minister of San Vincent and Grenadines 1979 - 1984, dies 1996 Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67 1995 Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85 1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75 1995 Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49 1995 S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89 1993 John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies 1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47 1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France 1957, dies 1992 Alex Haley, U.S. writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70 1992 Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70 1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies 1992 Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61 1992 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr. Faustus), dies 1992 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies 1989 Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!" 1986 Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83 1983 Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80 1982 K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies 1977 Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70 1968 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 1966 Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66 1962 Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1958 Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90 1951 Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71 1950 Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70 1948 Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies 1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50 1945 Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63 1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance 1939 Pius XI, Ambrogio D A Ratti, Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81 1932 R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 1932 Edgar Wallace, British Writer 1923 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 1918 Abdul-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Serbia/Egypt), dies at 65 1917 Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73 1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65 1905 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78 1902 J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies 1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician 1887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 1887 Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54 1880 Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French minister of Justice, dies at 83 1879 Honore V Daumier, French painter/lithographer, dies at 70 1879 Wolter R baron van Hoevell, Dutch vicar/abolitionist, dies at 66 1878 Claude Bernard, French Psychologist 1876 Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43 1861 Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies 1837 Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author 1832 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer, dies at 84 1829 Leo XII, Annibale Sermattei, Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68 1825 Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68 1822 Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83 1816 Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74 1783 James Nares, composer, dies at 67 1774 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44 1772 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75 1772 Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75 1755 Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher 1711 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager and Atalante), dies at 22 1686 William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies 1678 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried 1657 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59 1598 Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies 1588 Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82 1567 Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered 1495 William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy 1482 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81 1164 Hugo of Fosses/Premontre, abbott of Premontre, dies 1164 Hugo van Fosses/Premontre, abbott of Premontre, dies 1162 Boudouin III, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies 1134 Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
