2000 Franklin Garrett, American Historian 1999 Richard Kiley, actor, Man of La Mancha, dies at 76 1996 Joshua Compston, art impressario, gallerist, Factual Nonsense art gallery, associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists, YBAs, dies at 26 1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies 1996 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier, dies at 90 1996 Whit Bissell, actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86 1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphal-St. Elsewhere), dies 1995 Marguerite Kelsey, English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86 1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 1995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51 1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies 1994 Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75 1994 Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at 86 1993 Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80 1993 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash 1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82 1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65 1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109 1990 Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75 1990 Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer 1984 Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85 1984 Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39 1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68 1984 William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91 1982 John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33 1982 Clifford P. Case, Senator-R-New Jersey 1955 - 1979, Representative-R-New Jersey 1945 - 1953 1981 Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64 1981 Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86 1980 Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60 1980 Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82 1979 Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81 1977 Lockrem Johnson, composer, dies at 52 1977 Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83 1974 Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67 1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85 1973 Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45 1972 Nils Bjorkander, composer, dies at 78 1971 Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71 1967 Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack 1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies 1967 Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida 1966 Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 1966 Enrique E Ecker, Curaeaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79 1966 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet 1963 Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70 1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41 1963 Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30 1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82 1962 Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69 1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1956 Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50 1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80 1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73 1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer, dies at 61 1953 Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader 1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer 1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at 63 1950 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer and conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered 1919 Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67 1904 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71 1895 Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64 1893 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64 1893 Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37 1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70 1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer, dies at 34 1853 Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75 1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1827 Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician 1795 Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42 1794 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62 1778 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 1770 Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre 1732 Joseph-Franeois Salomon, composer, dies at 82 1644 Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73 1625 James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 1605 Clement VIII, Ippolito Aldofireini, Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69 1576 Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70 1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies 1561 Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41 1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 254 Lucius I, bishop of Rome (253-54), dies 254 St. Lucius I, Pope (253-54), dies
