2002 Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69 1998 Michael Tippett, composer, dies at 93 1998 Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93 1998 Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93 1997 Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men, dies at 68 1997 Jesse White, actor, Maytag repairman, dies at 77 1997 Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76 1997 Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85 1997 Phyllis Hartnoll, writer and editor, dies at 90 1997 Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher, dies at 60 1996 Francois Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79 1996 Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies 1996 William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52 1995 Carlos Monzon, El Macho, Argentina MW boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52 1995 Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68 1995 Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/comp (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88 1994 Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40 1994 Harvey Haddix, pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68 1994 Jay Blackton, U.S. conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84 1994 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide 1994 Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78 1994 Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99 1994 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52 1993 Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies 1993 Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered 1993 Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63 1992 Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies 1992 Johnny [Jan] Meijer, Dutch king of accordians (Body and Soul), dies 1992 Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack 1991 Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30 1990 Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78 1989 Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 1989 Ken McMillan, actress 'Malone', 'Concrete Beat', dies of heart attack at 56 1989 Kenneth McMillan, actor (Our Family Honor, Malone), dies at 67 1988 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army 1950 - 1953, dies at 76 1987 Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot and Cold), dies at 69 1986 Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 1983 Gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72 1983 Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 1983 Tom McCall, American Politician 1982 Gregoire Aslan, actor (Concrete Jungle), dies of 73 of a heart attack 1982 Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost and Mrs. Muir), dies of emphysema at 69 1981 Matthew Beard, entertainer, dies 1981 Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 1980 Oscar Ewing, U.S. government official (Everybody's Business), dies at 90 1978 Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75 1976 Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 1976 Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman 1975 Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66 1975 Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70 1975 John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69 1975 John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55 1975 Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 1975 Richard Tucker, Reuben Ticker, U.S. tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61 1972 Kenneth Patchen, U.S. writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60 1971 Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at 85 1970 Jani Christou, composer, dies on 44th birthday 1967 Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39 1965 Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer, dies at 74 1964 Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71 1964 Julius Raab, Austrian chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72 1963 Stark Young, U.S. writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81 1956 Jim Elliot, American Clergyman 1953 Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer, dies at 78 1952 Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies 1952 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66 1950 Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66 1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies 1948 Kurt Schwitters, writer, dies at 60 1948 Richard Tauber, Austria/British tenor/composer (Lehar), dies at 55 1945 Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79 1942 Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44 1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman 1941 Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83 1939 Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author 1939 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author 1937 John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72 1934 Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies 1928 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61 1926 Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81 1922 Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria 1921 Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48 1919 Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59 1919 Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austrian author, dies at 59 1918 Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73 1907 Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57 1906 Jacob C van Marken, peanut butter maker (Calve-Delft), dies at 60 1896 Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51 1896 Paul Verlaine, French Poet 1894 Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84 1892 John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67 1891 Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81 1880 [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60 1864 Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83 1859 Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50 1858 Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48 1842 Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71 1831 Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 1825 Eli Whitney, American Inventor 1819 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55 1815 Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle 1811 Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies 1811 Samuel Story, Dutch rear Admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58 1808 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies 1796 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46 1790 John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81 1775 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 1713 Arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59 1711 Philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66 1696 Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75 1651 Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56 1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1598 Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72 1567 Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37 1455 Laurentius Justitianus, Lorenzo Giustiniani, saint, dies at 73 1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 1324 Marco Polo, Venetian explorer and Governor of Nanking, dies 1198 Coelestinus III, Giacinto Bobo, pope (1191-98), dies 624 Abu Sufjan ibn Harb, Kurashite chief, dies in battle 482 Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies 482 Severinus, saint, dies
