1997 Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67 1996 Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61 1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 1996 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71 1995 Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32 1995 Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88 1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1994 Lewis Grizzard, American Writer 1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 1993 Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3 1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 1992 Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82 1992 Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67 1991 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90 1990 Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60 1990 Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete 1988 Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75 1987 Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure 1982 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at 52 1976 Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61 1974 Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62 1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 1972 Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 1972 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50 1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies 1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam 1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41 1964 Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84 1962 Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies 1962 C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45 1953 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60 1951 Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74 1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60 1950 Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59 1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet 1944 Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83 1942 Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41 1941 D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies 1934 A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen, dies at 76 1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR 1933 Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal 1929 Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77 1925 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 1925 Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1920 Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 1913 Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75 1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies 1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75 1910 Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89 1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution 1898 Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies 1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 1892 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41 1891 Lawrence Barrett, American Actor 1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73 1878 Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1875 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist 1874 Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63 1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52 1871 Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56 1870 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian 1866 Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23 1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 1804 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 1757 Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 1751 Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies 1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies 1646 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 1619 Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies 1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77 1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded 1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx, Cutter, Dutch anabaptist, beheaded 1501 Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72 1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 1393 Johannes Nepomucenus, Jan Nepomucky, Czechoslovakian saint, killed 1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies 1191 Clement III, Paolo Scolari, Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies 842 Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies
