2007 Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2002 Princess Margaret of England, royalty, dies at 71 2002 Princess Margaret, British Royalty 2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 2001 Herbert Simon, American Scientist 1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95 1997 Barry Evans, actor (Dr. Upton-Dr. in the House), dies at 53 1996 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83 1996 Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80 1996 Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44 1996 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80 1996 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86 1996 Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74 1995 David Wayne, Wayne Mcmeekan, U.S. actor 'Dallas', dies at 81 1995 J. William Fulbright, Senator-D-Arkansas 1945 - 1974, dies of a stroke at 89 1994 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79 1994 Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakian/U.S. soprano, 'Madame Butterfly', dies at 86 1994 Louis Kaufman, U.S. violinist and conductor, 'Gone with the Wind', dies at 88 1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1993 Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76 1993 Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies 1991 John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat 1984 Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras 1984 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1981 Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55 1980 Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106 1979 C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies 1978 Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Florida at 12 1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92 1977 Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59 1977 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82 1975 Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82 1974 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60 1973 Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53 1969 Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Olympic-gold 1928), dies at 68 1969 [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83 1968 Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 1968 Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78 1966 Sophie Tucker, Russian/US singer and actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79 1964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55 1961 Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70 1960 Ernst von Dohnanyi, U.S. composer, dies at 82 1957 Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent 1920 - 1944, dies at 88 1952 Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies 1949 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60 1945 George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau 1945 Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 1938 Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies 1936 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57 1935 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61 1932 Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered 1924 Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53 1918 Emiel van der Straeten, Delrue, Flemish playwright, dies at 30 1916 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90 1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio 1891 Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 1881 Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59 1881 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist 1874 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75 1860 Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63 1849 Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76 1846 Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies 1824 Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 1817 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54 1812 Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57 1811 Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies 1765 Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33 1751 Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82 1740 Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85 1675 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, buried 1670 Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60 1640 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27 1617 Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44 1588 Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies 1583 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1567 Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered 1555 John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
