2003 Sam Phillips, entreprenuer/DJ, started Sun Records, dies at 80 2001 John Walters, British Musician 1998 Buffalo Bob Smith, TV personality, The Howdy Doody Show, dies at 80 1996 Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83 1996 Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93 1996 Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87 1995 Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36 1995 Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80 1995 Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75 1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90 1994 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73 1994 Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80 1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish president-in-exile 1979 - 1986, dies at 97 1993 Jay Scott, Jeffrey Scott Beaven, US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43 1993 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington, New Hampshire in 200 years, killed at 45 1992 Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76 1992 Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78 1992 Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids 1991 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68 1991 William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60 1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered 1990 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74 1987 Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies 1983 Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease 1983 Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95 1983 Howard Dietz, American Musician 1982 Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies 1980 Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66 1980 Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70 1979 Beppie Nooij, Jr., Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67 1977 Johanna Andersen-Nexo, wife of Danish poet Martin A-N, dies at 74 1977 Jurgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered 1975 James Blish, American Author 1974 Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75 1973 Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72 1973 Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now and Forever), dies at 65 1970 George Szell, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, dies at 73 1968 Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69 1967 Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59 1967 John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35 1966 Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94 1965 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79 1962 Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54 1958 Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72 1957 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 76 1943 Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58 1936 Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72 1927 Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies 1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies 1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris 1912 Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60 1903 Servas Daems, Peeter Klein, Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65 1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83 1865 George Wright, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 61 1863 George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union general-major, dies of injuries at 29 1859 Richard Rush, American Lawyer 1832 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies 1796 Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies 1784 Denis Diderot, writer, dies at 70 1781 Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35 1771 Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 1741 Wierich PL count von Daun, Governor-General of Austria and Netherlands, dies 1727 Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67 1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer 'No cross, no crown', dies 1712 Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies 1655 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47 1653 Gabriel Naude, French librarian/ composer, dies at 53 1652 John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68 1528 Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48 1516 Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies 579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
