2001 Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84 2001 Katherine Graham, American Publisher 2000 "Raymond E. Portwood, Jr", game creator, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, dies at 66 1998 Hugh Reilly, actor, Lassie, dies at 82 1996 Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator, dies at 85 1996 Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60 1996 Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57 1996 Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95 1996 John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68 1996 Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81 1996 Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack 1995 Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56 1995 Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71 1994 Jean Borotra, Flying Basque, French tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95 1994 Sebastian Piana, Argentine pianist/tango composer, dies at 91 1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61 1993 Scott Salmon, U.S. choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51 1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84 1990 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68 1989 I. F. Stone, American Journalist 1988 Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death 1985 Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93 1985 Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor 1984 J Delos Jewkes, singer and actor (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 89 1980 Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68 1979 Doug Meintjes, South Africa cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies 1978 Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51 1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal) 1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 63 1974 Dizzy Dean, American Athlete 1971 Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76 1970 Juano Hernandez, actor (St. Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74 1967 Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot and Blue), dies at 74 1967 Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77 1967 John Coltrane, U.S. jazz sax/composer, dies at 40 1966 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71 1965 Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57 1961 Ty Cobb, baseball great, Detroit Tigers, dies of cancer at 74 1959 Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44 1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies 1957 John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30 1955 Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73 1954 Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85 1953 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65 1953 Maude K Adams, U.S. actress (Little Minister), dies 1947 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34 1944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies 1937 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73 1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1928 Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies 1922 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 1918 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13 1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46 1918 Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17 1918 Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50 1918 Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday 1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 1903 James A McNeill Whistler, U.S./British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 1903 James Whistler, American Artist 1901 John Farmer, composer, dies at 64 1878 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 1875 Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 1871 Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 1864 Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29 1864 Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 1863 James Johnston Pettigrew, U.S. attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 1851 Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37 1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 1826 Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 1824 Tench Coxe, American Economist 1794 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 1793 Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined 1790 Adam Smith, Scottish Economist 1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 1763 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 1762 Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34 1753 Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies 1746 Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53 1709 Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 1682 Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29 1627 Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 1510 Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies 1510 Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48 1070 Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies 1025 Boleslaw I Chobry, the brave, duke/king of Poland, dies 924 Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies
