2002 Chuck Jones, animator, Wyle E. Coyote and the Road Runner, dies at 90 1998 Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies 1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28 1998 Abraham A. Ribicoff, Senator-D-Connecticut 1963 - 1981, Governor of Connecticut 1955 - 1961 1997 Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85 1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 1996 Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80 1996 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79 1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60 1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80 1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies 1994 "Papa" John Creach, U.S. jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76 1993 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72 1993 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63 1992 Richard Sheldon, dies at 59 1990 Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies 1989 Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies 1987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58 1987 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66 1987 Glenway Wescott, U.S. writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85 1985 Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71 1985 Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95 1984 David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75 1983 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70 1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman, New York City DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60 1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66 1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1980 Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46 1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74 1978 Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 1977 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly and Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64 1976 Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71 1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32 1976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 1973 Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72 1973 Winthrop Rockefeller, U.S. governor (Arkansas), dies at 60 1972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65 1971 Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81 1971 Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77 1971 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82 1968 Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 1967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 1967 Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70 1966 Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74 1965 Felix Frankfurter, American Judge 1964 Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84 1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75 1960 Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86 1959 Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36 1958 Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash 1957 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr. Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72 1956 Paul Leautaud, Maurice Boissard, French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84 1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies 1943 Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies 1943 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1939 Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet 1936 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74 1934 Willem Kes, violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 78 1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66 1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72 1925 Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies 1925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88 1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1912 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76 1903 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies 1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42 1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton 1878 Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84 1875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28 1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77 1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 1838 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70 1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany 1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53 1822 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66 1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92 1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63 1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution 1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71 1732 Francis Atterbury, English Politician 1731 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92 1727 Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 1690 Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70 1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer 1674 John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60 1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies 1371 David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46 1213 Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies 1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1078 John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1071 Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle 606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
