2008 Bronislaw Geremek, dies in Poland, in a car accident, at 76 2004 Carlos Kleiber, conductor, dies at 74 2002 Yousuf Karsh, photographer, dies at 93 1997 Alexandra Danilova, ballet great 1996 Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71 1996 Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91 1996 Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91 1994 Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79 1994 Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50 1993 Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32 1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31 1992 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFLer (Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 76 1992 Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist, dies at 78 1991 Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies 1990 Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81 1989 Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered 1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed 1988 Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51 1988 Samuel L Mendel, oldest U.S. war veteran, dies at 104 1987 Patience Collier, dies 1982 Edith Heerdegen, dies at 69 1982 John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85 1980 Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies 1979 Corine Griffith, dies at 84 1978 Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78 1976 Max Butting, composer, dies at 87 1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1973 Lon Chaney, Jr., actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67 1973 Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80 1973 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72 1967 Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51 1967 Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies 1960 Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55 1958 Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday 1956 Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer, dies at 54 1955 Beulah Ecton Woodard, U.S. sculptor, dies at 59 1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1954 Irving Pichel, dies at 63 1954 M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera, dies at 47 1954 Grantland Rice, American Journalist 1951 Arnold Schonberg, Austria/US composer (Verklarte Nacht), dies at 76 1951 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian Composer 1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82 1943 Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50 1936 Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91 1936 Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43 1927 James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies 1925 Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies 1923 Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German composer, dies at 80 1903 August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77 1894 Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26 1890 John C "Pathfinder" Fremont, U.S. explorer/governor (Ariz), dies at 76 1890 John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1889 Carli Zoeller, composer, dies at 49 1877 Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65 1863 John S Bowen, U.S. architect/Confederate General-major, dies at 32 1861 Robert Selden Garnett, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41 1860 John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69 1844 Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66 1831 James Northcote, English Artist 1813 Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67 1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1793 Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday 1785 Stephen Hopkins, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 78 1777 Guillaume Coustou, Jr., French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61 1762 James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies 1755 Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh 1621 Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61 1380 Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60 1309 Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies 1105 Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki, Jewish intellectual, dies 1024 Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies 939 Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies 574 John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
