2005 Jack Kilby, American Scientist 2003 Bob Stump, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 2003 2002 Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71 2000 Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor 1999 Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95 1997 Lawrence Payton, singer, The Four Tops, dies at 59 1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64 1996 Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89 1996 Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96 1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65 1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies 1995 Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84 1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91 1994 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78 1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 1994 Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70 1994 Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71 1990 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension 1986 Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71 1984 Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99 1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30 1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68 1978 Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66 1978 Mark Robson, Canadian Director 1977 Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68 1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68 1972 Horst Salomon, writer, dies 1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 1966 Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71 1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41 1965 Bernard Baruch, American Businessman 1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 1963 Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott and Costello), dies at 52 1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs 1963 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64 1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80 1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71 1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies 1958 Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor 1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67 1948 George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61 1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal 1945 Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California 1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies 1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies 1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72 1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85 1922 Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54 1917 James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, dies at 78 1915 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies 1904 Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies 1890 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63 1888 Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66 1888 John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 1883 Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64 1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79 1870 Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39 1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43? 1846 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67 1842 Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60 1837 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89 1837 William IV, King of England, dies 1833 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44 1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 1751 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56 1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies 1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies 1585 Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 840 Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
