2005 James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician 2005 J. J. Pickle, Representative-D-Texas 1963 - 1995, died of cancer 2002 Jack Buck, American Celebrity 2000 Nancy Marchand, actress, The Sopranos, dies at 71 1996 Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84 1996 Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73 1995 Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85 1995 Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85 1994 Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75 1992 Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48 1991 Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69 1987 Bruce Marshall, writer, dies at 87 1982 Curt Jurgens, actor (Disorder), dies of an acute heart attack at 66 1982 Djuna Barnes, writer, dies 1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1982 Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself 1975 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king 1974 Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77 1973 Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71 1973 Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55 1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84 1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-67), dies at 66 1965 George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56 1964 Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58 1962 Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Bruckner), dies at 82 1961 George H. Bender, Representative-R-Ohio 1939 - 1954, Senator-R-Ohio 1954 - 1957 1959 Ethel Barrymore, Blythe, actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79 1955 Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61 1955 Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55 1952 Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63 1946 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1945 Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle 1945 Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action 1942 Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down 1942 Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71 1942 John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28 1942 Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich 1939 French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73 1937 Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies 1936 Maxim Gorki, Alexei M Peshkov, Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68 1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist 1935 August Reusner, composer, dies at 64 1934 Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65 1928 Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies 1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Explorer 1922 John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71 1921 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies 1921 Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37 1916 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67 1916 Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed 1911 Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76 1909 Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42 1902 Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 1886 Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Netherlands bishop of Roermond, dies at 90 1884 Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74 1884 Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman 1880 John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77 1876 August Rockel, composer, dies at 61 1866 Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62 1859 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65 1853 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies 1850 Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99 1824 Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55 1821 Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52 1817 Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Netherlands-Indies (1801-05), dies 1805 Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer 1799 Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58 1772 Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72 1726 Michel-Richard Delalande, composer, dies at 68 1686 Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43 1669 Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies 1667 Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik, dies at 39 1629 Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51 1588 Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24 1580 Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies 1464 Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65 1291 Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies 1164 Elisabeth von Schonau, German mystic (Visiones), dies at about 34 741 Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies
