2013 The world's oldest living person and verified longest lived man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, dies in the city of Kyotango, Japan at age 116 2013 Robert W. Fogel, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist, dies at the age of 86 2003 Gregory Peck, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, dies at 87 2002 Bill Blass, designer, dies at 79 1999 J. F. Powers, American Novelist 1998 Theresa Merritt, actress, That's My Mama, dies at 75 1997 Peter Blos, psychoanalyst/writer, The Adolescent Passage, dies at 93 1996 Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78 1996 MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83 1995 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75 1994 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O. J., murdered at 35 1994 Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93 1994 Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27 1992 Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies 1992 Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies 1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies 1990 Terence O'Neil, lord/Prime Minister of Ulster 1963 - 1969, dies 1989 Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80 1988 Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87 1986 Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76 1986 Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 1983 Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82 1980 Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75 1972 Edmund Wilson, U.S. writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79 1972 Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 1972 Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1968 Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 1966 Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74 1966 Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81 1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80 1963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37 1962 John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82 1957 James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, U.S. orchestra leader, dies at 53 1952 Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83 1947 Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70 1946 Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese Field Marshal, dies 1942 Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36 1941 Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer (Pache miraculous), dies 1936 Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies 1936 Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 1932 Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and writer (Book of Love), dies 1932 Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer and Dutch Secretary of State1866 - 1888, dies at 79 1928 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies 1922 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63 1917 Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63 1912 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies 1911 George Dorsey, American Politician 1888 Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62 1887 Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41 1878 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26 1858 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74 1858 William Horsley, composer, dies at 83 1853 John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60 1850 Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 1840 Gerald Griffin, American Author 1789 Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies 1788 Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 1778 Philip Livingston, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 1761 Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77 1759 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37 1687 Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried 1675 Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40 1616 Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies 1490 Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39 1231 Antonius van Padua, Fernando M de Bulhom, Port minister, dies at 35 816 Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
