2002 David Riesman, American Sociologist 2001 Deborah Walley, actress, the second movie Gidget, dies at 57 2000 Craig Stevens, actor, Peter Gunn, dies at 81 1999 Shel Silverstein, writer, Where the Sidewalk Ends, dies at 66 1997 Joanie Weston, roller derby queen with the Bay Bombers, dies at 61 1995 Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92 1995 Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83 1995 Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67 1994 John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 1994 Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69 1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 1992 Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74 1992 John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81 1992 Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies 1992 Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74 1991 Armand HF Boni, Armand the Good, Flemish poet and writer, dies 1990 Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61 1990 Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73 1984 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41 1984 Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56 1983 John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92 1982 Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies 1982 Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65 1979 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies 1979 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 1977 Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69 1976 George Curzon, dies at 77 1973 Jack E Leonard, Chicago, Illinois, comedian, dies at 62 1973 Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51 1971 Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79 1971 Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75 1968 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral vs. England 1936-37), dies 1968 Philippa Bevans, dies at 55 1968 Scotty Beckett, dies at 38 1965 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch Minister of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70 1964 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35 1964 Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66 1960 Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61 1950 John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies 1943 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1942 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74 1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 1937 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wuste), dies 1924 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated 1920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies 1915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle 1910 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 1910 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies 1909 Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies 1904 Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies 1904 Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer 1897 William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70 1885 Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62 1885 Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73 1880 John Goss, composer, organist, wrote hymn 'Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven', dies at 79 1869 Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66 1869 Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer, dies at 66 1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27 1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1860 Theodore Parker, American Theologian 1859 Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief and Housewife), dies 1849 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89 1833 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 1829 Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies 1826 Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86 1820 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49 1818 Paul Revere, American patriot, dies 1798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 1794 Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 1789 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72 1785 Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36 1784 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56 1774 Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 1770 Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 1764 Picander, Christian Henrici, German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies 1760 Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77 1710 Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46 1696 Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50 1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 1637 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 1569 Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer 1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 995 Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht 238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
