2005 Greg Garrison, American Director 2000 Helen Martin, actress, Bulworth, dies at 90 1998 Steven Schiff, Representative-R-New Mexico 1989 - 1998, died of Melanoma 1997 Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies 1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91 1995 James Gardner, designer, dies at 87 1995 Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73 1995 Warren E Burger, chief justice of U.S. (1969-86), dies 1994 David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, dies at 79 1994 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32 1992 Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69 1992 Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies 1991 Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78 1991 Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96 1989 Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies 1988 James J. Howard, Representative-D-New Jersey 1965 - 1988 1987 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83 1983 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72 1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered 1979 Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55 1978 Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85 1974 Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72 1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of U.S. photography, dies at 93 1969 Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72 1969 Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 1969 Max Eastman, American Author 1968 Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood 1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1963 David Moore, U.S. feather weight boxer, dies at 29 1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78 1959 Billy Mayerl, composer, pianist, master of light music, composed works for piano and orchestra, developed syncopated novelty piano solos, 300 piano pieces, most named after flowers and trees, dies at 56 1958 Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73 1957 Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50 1956 George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70 1956 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50 1954 Gertrud Baumer, writer, dies 1951 Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63 1949 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54 1948 Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42 1940 Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51 1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1931 Ida B. Wells, American Activist 1918 Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55 1914 Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies 1910 Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 63 1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57 1880 Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61 1880 Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies 1852 Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73 1835 Friederike Blum, writer, dies 1825 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63 1823 Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75 1801 Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69 1801 Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28 1799 Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60 1766 Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26 1751 Frederik of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74 1697 Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies 1692 Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66 1609 Johan Willem, duke of Julich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies 1510 Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49 1458 Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies 1223 Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
