2002 Avery Schreiber, comic, Burns and Schreiber, dies at 66 2002 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish Writer 1997 Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89 1997 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84 1996 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90 1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1996 Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88 1996 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist, dies at 93 1995 Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77 1995 Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83 1995 Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71 1995 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle 1995 William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71 1995 Murray Rothbard, American Economist 1994 Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67 1994 Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84 1994 Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85 1994 Lynn Blessing, vibes Player, dies at 65 1994 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies 1994 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor (Cafe Express), dies of heart failure 52 1993 Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57 1992 Jhean Burton, entertainer, dies 1992 Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40 1991 Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64 1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81 1990 Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies 1990 Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86 1990 Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73 1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1988 Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71 1987 Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72 1986 Juan Rulfo, writer, dies 1986 M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79 1985 Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67 1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79 1982 Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash 1981 Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69 1980 Carl White, rocker, dies 1980 Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74 1979 Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70 1972 John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies 1971 Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60 1971 Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64 1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81 1967 Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86 1967 Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW and Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies 1964 Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62 1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74 1960 Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80 1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 1957 Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies 1951 Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76 1948 Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies 1944 J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86 1942 Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, President of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63 1932 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60 1930 Rudolf Hapke, historian (Entstehung Holland Wirtschaft), dies at 45 1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77 1922 Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71 1921 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69 1907 Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56 1892 Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39 1891 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79 1890 Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78 1890 Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82 1887 Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74 1870 Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 1868 William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51 1858 Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91 1843 Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45 1833 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55 1830 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal's ex, dies at 53 1810 Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37 1790 Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69 1758 Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71 1755 Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49 1736 Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41 1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60 1695 Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 1678 Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59 1655 Innocentius X, Giambattista Pamfili, pope (1644-55), dies at 80 1598 Theodorus I, Fedor Ivanovitch, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40 1591 Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59 1590 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61 1566 Ludovicus Blosius, Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", wrtier, dies 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated 1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies 1529 Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies 1451 Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67 1325 Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies 1285 Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58 1130 Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83 312 Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies