2008 Janez Drnovsek, dies in Slovenia, of cancer, at 57 2004 Carl Anderson, actor/singer, ", Jesus Christ, Superstar, ", dies at 58 2003 Christopher Hill, English Historian 2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian 2002 Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65 2000 Ofra Haza, singer, Prince of Egypt, dies at 43 1998 Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74 1998 Philip Abbott, actor, The FBI, dies at 74 1997 Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80 1997 Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51 1996 Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut and wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies 1996 George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66 1996 Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78 1995 Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69 1995 David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52 1995 James Herriot, Scottish author (All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 78 1995 Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95 1995 Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79 1994 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40 1993 Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33 1992 Jacquelyn Hyde, actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61 1992 Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies 1990 Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 1990 James Gavin, commandant U.S. 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82 1990 Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62 1990 James M. Gavin, American Scientist 1987 Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80 1985 Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71 1983 Adrian Boult, conductor, dies 1980 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62 1976 Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74 1976 L S Lowry, painter, dies 1974 Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63 1972 Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81 1971 King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73 1969 Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, King Saudia, dies at 67 1969 Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75 1968 Edna Ferber, U.S. author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80 1968 Fannie Hurst, U.S. author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 1965 Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel and Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74 1961 Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies 1955 Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 1945 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 1945 Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle 1944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies 1942 Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60 1935 Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44 1934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard 1934 Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76 1934 Edward Elgar, British Composer 1931 Nellie Melba, Helen Mitchell, Australian soprano, dies 1930 Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22 1930 Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35 1927 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79 1924 Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies 1920 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61 1916 George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71 1915 Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC 1906 Johann Hoch, U.S. murderer, executed 1903 Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57 1903 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70 1902 Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72 1900 William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies 1900 Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1897 Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68 1884 Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 1867 George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90 1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies 1848 John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1825 - 1829, dies of a stroke at 80 1828 Mihaly Fazekar, Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies 1821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1821 John Keats, writer, dies at 25 1821 Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies 1807 Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61 1806 John Alcock, composer, dies at 90 1797 Antoine d'Auvergne, French opera composer (Coquette Trompee), dies at 83 1792 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68 1766 Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies 1718 Francois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63 1704 Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 1682 Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75 1669 Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68 1662 Johann Cruger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 1660 Charles X. Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 1607 Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60 1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed 1468 John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies 1447 Eugene IV, Gabriele Condulmer, Italian Pope (1431-47), dies 155 Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake
