2004 Jan Berry, singer, Jan and Dean, dies at 62 2004 Jan Sterling, actress, The High and the Mighty, dies at 82 2003 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001, died from complications from an appendectomy 2002 Randy Castillo, American Musician 2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 1996 David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83 1996 Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81 1996 Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician 1995 Eazy-E, drug dealer, gang member, rapper, producer, regarded as a founder of gangsta rap, member of N.W.A. group, dies of AIDS, at age 31 1994 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41 1994 Jan Bor, Dutch violinist and painter, dies at 83 1993 Luis Falco, U.S. choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 1993 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1990 International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38 1990 Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88 1986 Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy and Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 1982 Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91 1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77 1980 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32 1979 Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 1976 Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75 1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, 'My Country and My People' 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68 1973 George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80 1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 1973 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67 1969 B. Traven, wrote, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', dies at 87 1969 Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66 1967 Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies 1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 1960 Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61 1959 Raymond T Chandler, U.S. detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71 1959 Raymond Chandler, American Writer 1957 Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70 1953 Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64 1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1945 David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 1944 Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 1943 Ben Lindsey, American Judge 1934 Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51 1931 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician 1926 Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies 1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74 1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78 1923 Sarah Bernhardt, Henriette, actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 1918 Cesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83 1914 Jacob August Riis, Danish Journalist 1909 Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56 1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 1896 Nanny vs. Hof, writer, dies 1892 Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78 1892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at 72 1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62 1871 Francois-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87 1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1837 Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71 1816 Daniel Waters, American Soldier 1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68 1797 James Hutton, geologist, dies 1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 1713 Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77 1657 Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69 1649 John Winthrop, Puritan and 1st Governor (Mass), dies 1638 Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 1566 Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies 1546 Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies 1350 Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Leon, dies 1258 Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies 809 Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66 752 Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies
