2007 Ruth Graham, dies in North Carolina, of illness, at 87 2007 Kurt Waldheim, dies in Vienna, Austria, of heart failure, at 88 2000 Robert Trent Jones, golf course architect, Augusta National Course, dies at 93 1997 Henry C. Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71 1997 Richard Jaeckel, actor, Starman, The Dark, dies of cancer at 70 1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91 1996 Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73 1995 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69 1995 Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74 1995 Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60 1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47 1995 Roger Zelazny, American Writer 1994 Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78 1994 Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer and actor (City Heat), dies at 66 1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70 1994 Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52 1994 Marcel Mouloudji, French actor/chansonnier (Le Deserteur), dies at 71 1994 Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81 1994 Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78 1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries 1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93 1991 Joy Finzi, Joyce A Black, British painter, dies at 84 1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 1989 Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), dies 1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in New York at 67 1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81 1982 Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 1982 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer 1978 Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74 1977 Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69 1977 Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66 1974 Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81 1968 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1965 Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74 1965 H V Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86 1964 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81 1962 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65 1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 1960 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57 1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73 1948 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79 1948 John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80 1944 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71 1944 Lubor Niederle, Czechoslovakian archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78 1944 Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle 1941 Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74 1938 William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76 1938 William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist 1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 1936 Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer 1933 Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies 1927 Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79 1927 Jerome K. Jerome, English Author 1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies 1911 Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70 1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies 1891 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77 1885 Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curaeao, dies at 58 1873 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 1864 Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt 1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1828 Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies 1828 Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70 1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 1800 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect, murdered at 47 1789 Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61 1752 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57 1752 Daniel Marot, French/Netherlands, architect/engraver, dies at about 88 1750 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47 1744 Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83 1727 Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70 1709 Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65 1594 Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61 1594 Roland de Lassus, composer, dies 1349 Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 1144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69
