2008 Jesse Helms, dies in North Carolina, at 86 2005 Hank Stram, American Athlete 2003 Barry White, man with velvet voice, ", Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, ", dies at 58 2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89 2001 Mordecai Richler, Canadian Novelist 1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor for CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 62 1996 Clay Jones, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite gardener, dies at 72 1996 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58 1995 Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52 1995 Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74 1995 Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85 1995 Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67 1994 Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90 1994 Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55 1994 Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84 1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies 1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75 1993 Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83 1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65 1992 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71 1992 Joe Newman, U.S. jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies 1988 Adrian Adonis, Keith Franke, WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident 1986 Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83 1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83 1983 Claus Adam, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto, dies at 65 1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide 1980 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies 1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39 1971 Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 1970 Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 1970 Barnett Newman, American Artist 1963 Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66 1963 Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48 1962 Rex Bell, actor/lieutenant governor of Nevada, dies of heart attack at 56 1961 Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83 1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 1952 Walter Long, dies at 73 1946 Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71 1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56 1938 Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia 1934 "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies 1934 Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies 1934 Marie Curie, French Scientist 1931 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62 1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies 1929 Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70 1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67 1917 Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84 1910 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 1910 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70 1902 Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments 1901 John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian/philosopher, dies 1891 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67 1889 Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79 1888 Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 1863 Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies 1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64 1854 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72 1851 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67 1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies 1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies 1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73 1826 John Adams, 2nd president 1797-1801, dies at 90 1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83 1808 Fisher Ames, Representative-Massachusetts 1789 - 1797, dies 1789 Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59 1787 Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 1780 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Netherlands, dies at 67 1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 1757 Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38 1672 Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67 1672 Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48 1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies 1623 William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80 1603 Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82 1578 Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies 1541 Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56 1519 Johann Tetzel, (German) monk, dies at about 79 1498 Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies 1336 Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65 1307 Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies 1301 Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle 1187 Reinoud van Chatillon, French prince of Antioch, dies 966 Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies
