2005 Ernst Mayr, German Scientist 2003 Lana Clarkson, actress, Amazon Women on the Moon, dies at 40 1998 Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38 1997 Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84 1997 Bohumil Hrabal, Czechoslovakian writer, storyteller, wrote hyper-realist texts, studied at Charles Univerisity in Prague, known for novels titled Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England, dies at 82 1997 William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79 1996 Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69 1996 Broderick Vernon Chinnery Photographer-Haldane, dies at 83 1996 Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector, dies at 84 1996 Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property Developer, dies at 81 1996 Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79 1996 Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, dies at 61 1995 John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72 1995 Turner Fodrell, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 66 1993 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69 1991 Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 1989 John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 1984 Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies 1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England 1979 Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies 1977 Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76 1975 John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55 1975 Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52 1973 Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67 1972 John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79 1971 Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72 1969 Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered 1967 Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide 1967 Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick), dies at 72 1966 June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65 1962 Werner Bock, writer, dies 1961 Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54 1961 Viscount Dunrossil, Governor-General of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67 1960 Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at 80 1959 Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28 1959 Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22 1959 Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17 1958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42 1958 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81 1950 Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80 1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 1947 Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, U.S. Lieutenant-Admiral (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60 1945 Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61 1945 Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies 1943 Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns 1938 Armando Palacio Valdes, Spanish writer (El Cuarto Poder), dies at 84 1931 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72 1925 Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at 51 1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1921 Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56 1909 Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86 1903 Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59 1902 Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister 1866, dies 1900 Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 1896 Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1890 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 1889 Belle Starr, U.S. female gangster, murdered at 40 1888 Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian 1882 Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55 1876 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 1875 Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 1862 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 1853 August Kopisch, German writer (Mauseturm), dies at 53 1846 Joseph Weigl, Austria composer and conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 1832 George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 1814 Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75 1803 Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79 1748 Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49 1715 Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70 1697 Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island 1679 Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St. Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 1602 Paul Melissus, Paul Schede, German poet/composer, dies at 62 1558 Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies 1536 Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies 1468 Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies 1451 Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies 1399 John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile and Leon, dies at 58 865 Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies 474 Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
