2014 Tommy Ramone, former drummer and the last living member of punk rock band The Ramones, dies at age 65 of cancer 2007 Claudia Johnson, dies at 94, of natural causes 2004 Laurance Rockefeller, venture capitalist/philanthropist, founded the American Conservation Association, dies at 94 2004 Joe Gold, American Businessman 2004 Walter Wager, American Novelist 1996 Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72 1996 Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51 1995 John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 1994 Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82 1994 Bart Scheepens, actor and director, dies of AIDS at 50 1994 Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67 1994 Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52 1994 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52 1994 Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, dies at 57 1994 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49 1993 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88 1993 Denis Tomlinson, South Africa cricket leg-spinner, dies 1993 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83 1993 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in New York since 1954, dies 1993 Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82 1993 Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34 1992 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies 1992 Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73 1991 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered 1991 James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72 1990 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67 1989 Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82 1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50 1984 Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81 1983 Kenneth Millar, American Writer 1980 Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80 1980 Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57 1975 Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89 1974 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83 1973 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72 1973 Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83 1973 Robert Ryan, U.S. actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63 1971 Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64 1971 John W. Campbell, U.S., sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61 1966 Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 1965 Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75 1964 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64 1962 Owen D. Young, American Businessman 1960 Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Fin-Swedish language poet (Kiri-ra!), dies at 73 1958 Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69 1957 Aga Khan III, leader of ismailieten (Indian transition), dies 1950 Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79 1948 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies 1948 King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68 1944 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle 1942 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau 1937 George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38 1926 Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57 1924 Erich Muhsam, writer, dies at 46 1921 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75 1916 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies 1914 Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies 1909 Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74 1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies 1896 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 1896 Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36 1889 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34 1882 Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday 1876 Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72 1874 Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgian pontifical defense minister, dies at 54 1847 Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist, dies at 71 1826 Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57 1806 James Smith, Irish / U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 87 1804 Alex Hamilton, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken 1781 Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 1768 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66 1763 Pehr Forskahl, Finnish botanist/explorer, dies 1690 Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75 1686 Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75 1667 John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried 1649 Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies 1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn) 1553 Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32 1540 Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies 1535 Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 51 1382 Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 1302 Jacques de Chatillon, count of Saint-Pol/Governor of Flaanders, dies 1302 Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies 1174 Amalrik I, Morri, French King of Jerusalem, dies 155 Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
