2008 George Tibbits, composer, architect, works include, Otway Ranges Symphony, Battue, dies 2003 Buddy Ebsen, actor/dancer, TV's The Beverly Hillbillies, dies at 95 2002 John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72 2000 Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78 1998 Roy Rogers, cowboy actor, dies at 86 1995 Aziz Nesin, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, dies at 79 1995 Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87 1995 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76 1994 Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75 1994 Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46 1993 Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84 1992 Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies 1991 Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78 1990 Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41 1990 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at 46 1989 Janos Kadar, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77 1982 Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72 1980 Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69 1979 Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr. DJ, Hustle), dies at 35 1977 Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69 1975 Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies 1974 Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87 1973 Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80 1973 Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88 1973 Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63 1972 Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash 1972 Sam de Grasse, dies at 97 1972 Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies 1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71 1971 Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies 1970 Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80 1966 Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50 1962 William [Harrison] Faulkner, U.S. writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64 1962 William Faulkner, American Novelist 1961 Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93 1961 Enrique Larreta, E Rodriguez Maza, Argentine diplomat/writer, dies 1960 Aneurin Bevan, English Politician 1959 George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65 1955 Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87 1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70 1951 Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57 1934 Warden Uncle, Edward Vermeulen, Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73 1933 Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76 1918 Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies 1916 Odilon Redon, French painter/author (A soi-mame), dies at 76 1914 Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27 1902 Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51 1896 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54 1879 Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65 1871 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 1868 Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71 1864 Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 36 1863 Strong Vincent, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1860 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37 1858 Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78 1835 John Marshall, American Judge 1816 Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67 1802 Daniel Morgan, American Soldier 1795 Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79 1768 Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78 1765 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76 1762 Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34 1734 Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69 1701 William Kidd, English / U.S. buccaneer, hanged 1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed 1583 Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64 1568 Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61 1553 Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15 1535 Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 1533 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 1480 Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64 1476 Regiomontanus, Johannes Muller of Konigsberg, dies 1415 Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany 1189 Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
