2003 Carol Shields, author, The Stone Diaries, dies at 68 2003 Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish Philosopher 2000 Peter McWilliams, writer, Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, dies at 49 1996 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69 1996 Mel Allen, sportscaster (New York Yankees), dies at 83 1995 Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies 1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88 1994 Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82 1994 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82 1993 John B Connally, Governor of Texas/shot with John F. Kennedy in 1963, dies at 76 1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies 1991 Vicky Brown, U.S. singer (Power of Love), dies 1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies 1987 Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Kain), dies at 80 1986 Diana Cooper, English Celebrity 1982 John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs 1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered 1981 John S Knight, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 86 1979 Ben Weber, U.S. composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62 1979 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77 1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking 1976 Francis E Meloy, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed 1976 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies 1975 Don Robey, U.S. gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71 1970 Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73 1970 Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83 1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78 1969 John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 1969 John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25 1969 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53 1962 Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Son), dies at 64 1959 George Reeves, actor 'Superman', 'Gone with the Wind', shoots self at 45 1958 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45 1948 Rufus Jones, American Writer 1947 Jean-Franeois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86 1946 Ludwig Winder, writer, dies 1946 Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61 1944 Marc Bloch, French Historian 1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies 1940 Dubose Heyward, U.S. writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies 1940 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25 1936 Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies 1932 Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies 1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, U.S. inventor (gyroscope compass), dies 1910 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72 1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51 1901 Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies 1892 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/Minister of Justice, dies at 80 1837 Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72 1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64 1818 Daniel Smith, American Politician 1815 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle 1812 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 1804 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75 1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 1722 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow 1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74 1644 Johannes a Sancto Thoma, Poinset, Portuguese theologist, dies at 54 1620 Carlo Saraceni, Carlo Veniziano, Italian painter (Judith), dies 1575 Hadrianus Junius, Adriaen the Jonghe, medical/historian, dies at 63 1492 Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded 1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64 1216 Innocent III, pope, dies at 54 956 Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
