2003 Strom Thurmond, Senator-R-South Carolina 1956 - 2003, Governor South Carolina 1947 - 1951, dies at 100 from heart faliure 1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1994 A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93 1994 Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64 1994 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65 1994 Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56 1994 Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96 1993 Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82 1993 Jack Bittner, entertainer, dies 1993 Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71 1993 Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 1992 Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show), dies 1992 Phil Rubenstein, U.S., actor (Tango and Cash, Robocop), dies 1991 Carmine Coppola, composer and conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80 1991 Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies 1990 Mary Ward, Myra Syrier, actress (Playing for Keeps), dies 1989 Walter Martin, American Clergyman 1988 Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian 1984 Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69 1984 George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82 1984 Michel Foucault, English Historian 1983 Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82 1982 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies 1982 Andre Tchaikowsy, pianist/composer, dies 1982 Charles Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71 1982 Sandy Powell, costume designer, dies at 82 1981 Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies 1979 Charles Clore, financier, dies 1978 Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed 1977 Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43 1977 Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75 1975 Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73 1973 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 1973 Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82 1972 David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 1971 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 1971 Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies 1971 Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88 1967 Francoise Dorleac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35 1965 Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82 1965 Reginald Beckwith, actor and writer (39 Steps, Dr. in Love), dies at 56 1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies 1961 Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian pilot, dies 1961 Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58 1960 John Brenden Kelly, rower, Gold Medals 1920, 1924 Olympics, dies at 70 1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 1956 Clifford Brown, U.S. jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 1945 Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer, dies at 72 1943 Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 1942 Titus Brandsma, Anno Sjoerd, Dutch RC priest (Dachau), dies 1939 Ford M Ford, Hueffer, British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 1938 James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 1938 E. V. Lucas, English Writer 1937 Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 1926 Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies 1922 Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 1906 Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 1896 Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 1863 Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies 1856 Max Stirner, German Philosopher 1836 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies 1827 Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies 1827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73 1819 Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 1819 Slome Duikelar, Abraham J Swalff, Yiddish writer, dies 1798 Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 1793 Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies 1793 Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author 1778 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 1688 Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70? 1688 Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies 1666 Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies 1661 Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 1657 Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 1631 Justinus van Nassau, ltalian Admiral (Armada), dies 1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima 363 Flavius C Julianus, Apostata, emperor of Rome (361-63), dies
