2013 Helen Thomas, an American Journalist who reported on the White House for nearly fifty years, dies at the age of 92 2007 Tammy Faye Bakker, dies in Missouri, at 65 1999 Sandra Gould, actress, Bewitched, dies at 73 1997 Linda Stirling, B movie actress, dies at 75 1996 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70 1996 Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77 1995 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82 1995 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85 1994 Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried 1994 Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96 1994 Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83 1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79 1991 Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86 1990 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies 1989 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies 1989 Mary Treen, actress (Career, Rock-a-bye Baby), dies at 71 1987 Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63 1986 Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 1984 Gail Kubik, U.S. composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69 1984 Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52 1983 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59 1979 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian 1977 Carter De Haven, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin, dies in Glendale, California, at age 90 1977 F G Junger, writer, dies 1974 Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74 1973 Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam, actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32 1969 Roy Hamilton, rocker, dies at 40 1968 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies 1966 Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68 1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 1962 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86 1959 Harry Fox II, dies at 77 1959 William D. Leahy, American Soldier 1958 Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69 1957 Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46 1954 Blair Moody, Sen-Michigan, dies at 52 1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem 1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death 1945 Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1944 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71 1944 Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing 1944 Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies 1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Heinz Burns, German, Gold Medal 1936 Olympics, dies in bombing 1944 Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies 1944 Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies 1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds 1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier 1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle 1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 1939 Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 1936 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75 1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies 1927 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61 1923 Pancho Villa, Doroteo Arango, Mexican rebel, murdered at 55 1914 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76 1908 Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62 1903 Leo XIII, Vincenzo G Pecci, Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93 1898 Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86 1897 Jean Ingelow, English Poet 1888 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies 1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies 1875 Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman 1868 Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75 1868 Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62 1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide 1866 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies 1859 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies 1825 Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58 1824 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies 1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies 1808 Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66 1766 Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies 1762 Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies 1752 John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85 1732 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51 1636 John Oldham, trader in Massachusetts, murdered by indians 1613 Heinrich Julius, von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, duke, dies 1609 Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69 1607 Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48 1597 Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Netherlands publisher, dies 1573 Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded 1454 Johan II, King of Castilie, dies at 49 1322 Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies 1031 Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies 833 Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63
