2003 Bob Hope, comedian, road movies, dies at 100 2002 Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86 1997 K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99 1996 Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 1996 Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 1996 Peter James Frederick Green, CEO Lloyd's of London, dies at 71 1995 Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 66 1995 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72 1995 Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88 1995 Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89 1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies 1994 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 1993 Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27 1992 Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56 1991 Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50 1990 Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58 1990 Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies 1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32 1990 Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35 1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 1987 Travis Jackson, baseball player (New York Giants), dies at 83 1986 Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72 1985 Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95 1985 Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete 1984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75 1984 Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81 1982 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67 1982 Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, dies at 28 1981 Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies 1981 Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64 1981 William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies 1981 Paul Brunton, British Philosopher 1980 Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60 1980 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty 1979 Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52 1979 Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79 1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72 1978 [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor and composer (Symphonic), dies at 70 1976 Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease" 1974 Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61 1972 Allen J. Ellender, American Politician 1971 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83 1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies 1968 Anton van Duinkerken, Willem J M A Asselbergs, literary, dies 1968 Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61 1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 1962 Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70 1961 Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59 1960 Vasa Prihoda, Czechoslovakian violinist, dies at 59 1952 W de Basil, US Voskresenski, Russia, ballet dancer, dies 1948 Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91 1946 Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 1944 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68 1942 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies 1934 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies 1924 Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58 1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66 1916 Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1901 Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian 1883 Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61 1883 Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70 1881 Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84 1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies 1844 John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies 1841 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet 1834 Charles Lamb, English Critic 1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies 1822 Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 1777 William Hayes, composer, dies at 69 1759 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60 1720 Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69 1689 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies 1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies 1638 Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54 1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77 1233 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45 1227 Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies 1214 Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle 1214 Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle 1128 Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle 1101 Koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies 916 Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies 432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies 82 St. Joseph of Arimathea, dies
