2013 James Gandolfini, the actor known for his role in the show, The Sopranos, dies at age 51 of a heart attack 1997 Bobby Helms, singer, Recorded Jingle Bell Rock, dies at 63 1996 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78 1996 David Schine, businessman, dies at 70 1996 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63 1996 Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82 1996 Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91 1995 Al Hansen, Norwegian American artist, dies at 67 1995 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71 1995 Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79 1994 Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92 1994 Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75 1994 Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82 1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 1992 Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96 1991 Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], U.S. actress (Shane), dies 1989 Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80 1989 Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81 1988 Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83 1986 Coluche, Michel Colucci, French comic, dies at 41 1986 Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure 1986 Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59 1984 Lee Krasner Pollock, U.S. painter, dies at 75 1984 Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88 1982 John Cheever, U.S. writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 1973 Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr. Who), dies at 55 1966 Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79 1966 Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59 1965 James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72 1962 Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 1956 Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies at 82 1956 Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist 1953 Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries 1953 Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage at 37 1947 Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84 1944 Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65 1940 Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor (Pirouette), dies at 70 1940 Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40 1939 Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60 1937 James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies 1937 James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1932 Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies 1922 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71 1921 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33 1915 Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58 1914 Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1902 John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69 1867 Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies 1864 George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries 1840 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50 1837 Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle 1820 Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies 1811 Samuel Chase, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 70 1794 Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 1794 Richard Henry Lee, American Politician 1787 John Brown, (British) theologist, dies 1762 Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60 1759 Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31 1747 Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77 1747 Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered 1730 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49 1652 Louis de Geer, Netherlands/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 1554 Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 1542 Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer 1341 Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies 1312 Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded 1113 Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
