2009 Kelly Groucutt, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres, dies in Worcester, England, at age 63 2001 Stanley Kramer, director, Judgment at Nuremberg, dies at 87 2001 William Masters, sex researcher, dies at 85 2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian Architect 1998 Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard, 'Hee Haw', dies at 84 1997 Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92 1997 Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88 1997 Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76 1996 Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77 1996 Charles O Finley, baseball owner for the Oakland A's, dies at 76 1996 Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76 1996 Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83 1995 Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 1995 Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80 1995 Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84 1994 Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52 1994 Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71 1994 Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19 1993 Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82 1993 Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 1992 Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66 1991 Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50 1990 Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 1989 Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies 1989 Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies 1986 Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63 1986 James Eastland, Senator-D-Mississippi, 1941 - 1941 and 1943 - 1978, dies at 81 1986 Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77 1985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies 1985 George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66 1984 Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 1983 Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke 1981 Frank Merrik, composer, dies at 94 1980 Bon Scott, Australia rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33 1977 Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1975 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71 1970 Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89 1968 Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 1967 Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies 1965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 1965 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63 1962 Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 1952 Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at 92 1952 Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82 1950 Edyth Walker, U.S. singer, dies at 82 1949 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 1945 Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 1944 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer, dies at 76 1941 Hamilton Hamilton Harty, composer and conductor, dies at 61 1933 Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer, dies at 77 1927 Georg Brandes, Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85 1923 Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68 1916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies 1897 Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 1894 Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer, dies at 78 1892 Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England vs. South Africa 1889), dies at 26 1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 1887 Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany 1878 Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 1875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76 1864 William Edwin Baldwin, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies 1858 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78 1849 Bernard Barton, American Poet 1837 Georg Buchner, German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23 1822 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 78 1815 Leonhard von Call, composer, dies at 47 1790 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer, dies at 47 1785 Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84 1724 Peter Schuyler, English Politician 1653 Luigi Rossi, composer, dies 1620 Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam 1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54 1568 Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80 1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 1545 Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death 1414 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies 1401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1260 Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies 197 D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
