2007 Craig L. Thomas, dies in Maryland, of leukemia, at 74 2005 Jean O'Leary, American Activist 2004 Steve Lacy, American Musician 1997 Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 50 1997 Kurt Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92 1997 Ronnie Lane, rocker, Faces, dies at 50 1996 Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies 1995 Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80 1995 Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77 1995 Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49 1994 Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48 1994 Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79 1994 Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80 1994 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 1994 Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener, dies at 84 1994 Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33 1994 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84 1994 Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59 1993 June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71 1992 Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82 1990 Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II), dies at 82 of stomach cancer 1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989), dies at 89 1989 Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71 1989 Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakian opera composer and conductor, dies at 71 1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 1973 Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville 1973 Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies at 55 1972 Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79 1971 Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher, dies at 86 1971 Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69 1970 Hjalmar Schcacht, Horace Greeley, Nazi minister, dies 1970 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies 1970 Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78 1970 Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58 1968 Dorothy Gish, de Guiche, actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 1968 Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman 1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies 1962 William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84 1960 Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64 1959 Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58 1958 M Lichnowsky, writer, dies at 79 1956 Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73 1954 Harold Hoffman, Governor New Jersey, dies at 58 1951 Serge Koussevitsky, conductor/composer, dies at 76 1950 Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies 1945 Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66 1943 Jean du Bela, singer and actor (Sobibor), dies at 39 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies 1941 Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies 1931 Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies 1926 Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks and Radiates), dies 1926 Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies 1925 Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77 1925 Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies 1922 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies 1921 Heinrich E Albers-Schonberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56 1916 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 1915 William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26 1913 Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse 1907 Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59 1905 Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85 1880 Eugen Adam, painter, dies 1876 Abdul-Aziz, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76), dies at 46 1875 Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70 1872 Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies 1872 Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53 1850 Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange, dies at 74 1849 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist 1826 Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39 1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies 1818 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44 1809 Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65 1798 Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73 1793 Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34 1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies 1674 John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66 1663 William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies 1608 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 1585 Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58 1558 Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43 1463 Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26 1267 Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67), dies 1039 Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49
