2008 William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer 2005 Frank Perdue, American Businessman 2002 Barry Took, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman 1998 Bella Abzug, Representative-D-New York, 1971 - 1977, dies at 77 from complications following open heart surgery 1998 Tim Flock, American Celebrity 1997 Laxmishankar Pathak, food retailer, dies at 62 1997 Edwin Haig Alberian, TV celebrity, played Clarabell 1996 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91 1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37 1996 Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73 1995 Selena, born Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Mexican American singer, dies in Corpus Christi, Texas, murdered by Yolanda Saldivar at age 23 1994 Leon J Ramirez Reine, Degrelle, Belg/Spanish nazi (Rex), dies at 87 1993 Brandon Lee, U.S. actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28 1993 Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies 1991 John Carter, U.S. jazz clarinetist (Roots and folklore), dies 1990 Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies 1988 Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48 1986 Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79 1986 Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 1986 O'Kelly Isley, U.S., singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48 1983 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 1982 Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85 1980 Jesse Owens, American Athlete 1978 Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68 1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57 1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68 1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31 1970 Semjon Timoshenko, Russian marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 75 1967 Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62 1967 Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72 1961 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85 1960 Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1959 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68 1957 Gene Lockhart, New York City actor (Going My Way), dies at 65 1951 Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45 1948 Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62 1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1945 Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 1944 Mineichi Koga, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies 1939 Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright dies at 87 1938 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 1934 Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88 1931 Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43 1928 Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 1928 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 1914 Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42 1914 Christian Morgenstern, German Poet 1913 John Pierpont Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75 1901 John Stainer, composer, dies at 60 1898 Edward Noyes Westcott, U.S. attorney/writer (David Harum), dies 1894 William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist 1892 Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66 1886 Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57 1885 Franz W. Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies 1885 Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65 1885 Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69 1884 Jan T Beelen, Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77 1881 Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73 1880 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44 1877 Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 1855 Charlotte Bronte, English author 'Jane Eyre', dies at 38 1850 John Calhoun, dies at 68 1837 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday 1741 Peter Burmannus, Peter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72 1727 Isaac Newton, English Mathematician 1722 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62 1656 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64 1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1621 Felipe III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42 1578 Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered 1567 Philip, the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62 1389 Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered 1340 Ivan I Kalita, grand-duke of Vladimir, dies 1201 Absalon Assersson, Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies
