2007 Ingmar Bergman, dies in Sweden, at 89 2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, dies in Rome, Italy, at 94 2003 Robert McCloskey, writer/illustrator, Make Way for Ducklings, dies at 78 2003 Buddy Hackett, American Comedian 2001 Joe Henderson, American Musician 1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76 1996 Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41 1996 Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74 1996 Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76 1995 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63 1995 Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89 1995 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74 1995 Phyllis Hyman, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies, dies from suicide at 45 1995 Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies 1995 Jorge Peixinho, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dies in Lisbon, Portugal 1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51 1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65 1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies 1992 Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53 1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 1987 Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94 1987 King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies 1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies 1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79 1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies 1983 Mary Livingstone, Sadye Marks, Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77 1980 Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies 1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72 1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church 1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died 1971 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 11, dies at 38 1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43 1971 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35 1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76 1968 John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 1965 Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies 1962 Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65 1961 Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87 1960 Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79 1959 Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76 1958 Alois Blommaert, Flemish literary (De Heikeuters), dies at 45 1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79 1948 Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78 1946 Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64 1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62 1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61 1935 William Brockwell, cricket (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies 1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46 1934 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42 1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered 1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52 1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42 1923 Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56 1919 John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1914 Bai Long, White Wolf, Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies 1905 John Hay, U.S. politician, dies 1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies 1898 Otto von Bismarck, German Leader 1890 Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71 1889 Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64 1882 Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged 1862 Richard Griffith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies 1819 Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72 1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist 1792 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies 1771 Thomas Gray, English Poet 1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55 1666 Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32 1666 Alexander Brome, British poet 1662 Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64 1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81 1649 Simon Vouet, French painter 1538 Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70 1520 Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed 1109 Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
