2003 Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer 2002 Irene Worth, actress, Lost in Yonkers, dies at 85 2000 John Sladek, science fiction satirist, dies at 62 1998 Lloyd Bridges, actor, Sea Hunt, dies at 85 1996 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84 1996 Ross Hunter, U.S. producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75 1995 Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84 1995 Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69 1995 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79 1995 Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84 1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92 1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73 1994 Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer 1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies 1993 David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47 1992 Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64 1990 Michael Stewart, U.K. Secretary of State 1965 - 1966, 1968 - 1970, dies 1988 Andy Gibb, singer, dies of heart infection at 30 1988 Glenn Cunningham, U.S. world record miler, dies at 78 1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79 1986 Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81 1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73 1984 June Marlowe, actress (Pardon U.S.), dies at 81 1981 Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris 1977 E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70 1977 Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74 1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82 1975 Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91 1974 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48 1974 Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76 1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated 1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92 1968 Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 1966 Mari Sandoz, U.S. author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64 1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered 1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52 1943 Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78 1940 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68 1935 Barend Barendse, actor and director (Broken Lives), dies at 82 1922 Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67 1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73 1919 Amelia Barr, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder', dies 1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY 1910 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85 1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65 1906 Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67 1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38 1900 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94 1897 Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79 1892 Otto van Raised, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1884-88), dies at 69 1888 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57 1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84 1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 1870 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75 1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87 1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confederate General-Major, dies at 48 1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52 1861 Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67 1832 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79 1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal, 1816 - 1826, dies at 56 1819 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies 1792 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78 1735 Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/Governor-General of E Indies, dies at about 46 1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48 1701 Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52 1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61 1597 Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies 1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies 1585 Rembert Dodoens, Rembertus Dodonaeus, physician/botanist, dies at 67 1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies 37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78
