2008 William F. Buckley, Jr., dies in Stamford, Connecticut, at 82 2003 Fred Rogers, writer, actor, minister, and musician, 'Mr. Rogers', dies at 74 2002 Spike Milligan, "comic, writer", The Goon Show, dies at 83 1998 J. T. Walsh, actor, Pleasantville, dies at 54 1996 Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72 1996 George Ian Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64 1996 Pat Smythe, show jumper, dies at 67 1996 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60 1995 Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67 1995 Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51 1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 1994 Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66 1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92 1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84 1993 Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72 1993 Lillian Gish, U.S. actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96 1993 Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83 1992 S. I. Hayakawa, Senator-R-California 1977 - 1983, dies of a stroke at 85 1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 1991 H J of Royen, manager Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, dies at 52 1991 Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered 1989 Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies 1989 Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66 1989 Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85 1987 Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65 1985 David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies 1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82 1985 Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83 1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician 1982 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39 1980 George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78 1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65 1977 Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 1975 Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies 1974 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59 1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer and conductor, dies at 72 1970 Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies 1969 John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 1968 Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 1968 Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46 1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81 1962 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 1961 Platt Adams, high jumper, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics, dies 1960 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1958 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack 1956 Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 1956 Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57 1955 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 1952 Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74 1950 Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1945 HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1943 Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84 1942 Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52 1940 Peter Behrens, German architect, dies 1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70 1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 1936 Ivan Pavlov, Russian Psychologist 1936 Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge 1930 George Haven Putnam, American Soldier 1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65 1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67 1920 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72 1913 Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58 1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53 1881 George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23 1852 Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69 1844 Nicholas Biddle, U.S. lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85 1830 Elias Hicks, American Clergyman 1805 Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57 1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 1779 Jan Nepveu, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59 1735 John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies 1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46 1731 Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76 1706 John Evelyn, diarist, dies 1656 Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies 1167 Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies