2000 Leslie Arthur Sirkin, geologist, dies at 65 1997 William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, made many documentaries about the ocean, dies of heart attack at 87 Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer 1996 Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93 1995 Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78 Warren E. Burger, American Judge 1994 Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74 Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72 1992 James Stirling, Scottish D-Day parachutist/architect, dies Jerome Brown, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagle), dies in car crash at 27 William E Harris, entertainer, dies 1990 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77 1988 Axis Sally, Mildred E Gillars, U.S. nazi propagandist (WW II), dies 1987 Boudleaux Bryant, song writer (for Everly Bros), dies at 67 1986 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63 1984 Michel Foucault, philosoph (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57 1983 Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, Argentine composer (Panambi), dies at 67 1978 Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered 1977 Endre Szervanszky, composer, dies at 65 Petko Staynov, composer, dies at 80 1976 Johnny Mercer, U.S. songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66 1971 Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 1968 Tony Hancock, actor and writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 1964 Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76 1962 Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies 1961 Ma Ferguson, American Politician 1960 WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67 1959 Charles Starkwether, murderer, executed 1956 Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. zoologist/sexologist, dies at 62 Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77 Reinhold M Gliere, Ukrainian conductor and composer (Gjulsura), dies at 81 1954 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74 1943 Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St. Louis Kid), dies at 68 1942 Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67 1937 Colin Clive, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre), dies at 39 1929 Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies 1926 Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris 1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65 1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit 1898 Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70 1896 Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 1884 Hans Rott, composer, organist at the Piarist church, praised by Anton Bruchnew, Gustav Mahler, dies at 25 1876 Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36 John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn Myles Keogh, U.S. officer, dies at Little Bighorn Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier 1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82 1822 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46 1785 Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63 Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau, dies at 53 1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86 1710 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74 1634 John Marston, English Poet 1522 Franchinus Gaffurius, composer, dies at 71 1514 Berta Jacobsdr, Suster Bertken, Dutch hermit, dies at 87 1483 Edward V, king of England (Apr 9-Jun 25, 1483), murdered 1423 Reinald IV, duke of Gelre and Gulik (Reinoud I), dies 1212 Simon de Montfort, a leader of the crusades, dies at 67 1142 Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies
