2007 Jean Baudrillard, dies at 77 2004 Frances Dee, actress, Little Women, dies at 96 2001 Kim Walker, actress, Say Anything, dies at 32 2000 John Colicos, actor, in the original Battlestar Gallactica, dies at 71 1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed 1997 Anthony Hopkins, clinical Neurologist, dies at 59 1997 Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana 1953, 1957 - 1964, dies 1997 Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister, PNP, 1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992, dies 1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88 1996 Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88 1996 Simon Cadell, actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45 1995 Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46 1995 Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78 1995 Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44 1994 Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81 1994 Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89 1994 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68 1994 Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77 1994 Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71 1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 1993 Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58 1993 Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 1992 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia 1992 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies 1992 Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at 83 1989 Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77 1988 Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63 1987 Edward Zorinsky, Senator-D-Nebraska, 1976 - 1987, died of a heart attack 1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies 1986 Georgia O'Keefe, U.S. painter (Flowers), dies at 98 1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist 1985 Eric Sloane, U.S. artist, dies at 80 1984 Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies at 78 1984 Martin Niemoller, German submarine captain and anti-nazi minister, dies at 92 1984 Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59 1983 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55 1982 Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77 1982 Jan Lemaire, Dutch actor and writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at 97 1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent 1979 Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83 1976 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, lt-hvywgt box champ (1930-34), dies at 71 1974 Ernest Becker, Canadian Scientist 1973 Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 72 1973 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80 1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67 1973 Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist 1971 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at 74 1970 William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55 1968 Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 1968 Joseph Martin, Jr., Speaker of the House, dies at 83 1967 Nelson Eddy, U.S. baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65 1967 Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76 1967 Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (Hary Janos), dies at 84 1966 Richard Hageman, composer, dies at 83 1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75 1965 Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58 1964 King Paul I, of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62 1963 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91 1961 George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56 1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59 1959 Fred Stone, actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at 85 1954 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80 1954 Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80 1951 Ivor Novello, actor and writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58 1950 Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54 1947 Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55 1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1945 Rudolph Karel, composer, dies at 64 1941 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor Mount Rushmore, dies at 73 1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73 1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed 1939 [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86 1937 Frank Vosper, actor and writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37 1937 Rudolf Otto, German Theologian 1936 Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63 1936 Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63 1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Judge 1933 Anton J Cermak, U.S. mayor of Chicago, murdered 1932 John Philip Sousa, U.S. composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 77 1924 Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85 1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73 1905 John H. Reagan, American Politician 1900 Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65 1892 Alice James, American Writer 1888 Louisa May Alcott, U.S. author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55 1867 Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54 1867 Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer 1854 Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 1851 Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63 1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 1836 Davy Crockett, U.S. pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49 1754 Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57 1753 Gerhardus Havingha, composer, dies at 56 1720 Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63 1674 Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58 1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) 1615 Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns 1583 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 766 Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
