2002 Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87 2001 Douglas Adams, hysterically-funny writer, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dies at 49 1997 Brenda Carlin, TV producer and wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 1996 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85 1996 Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48 1996 Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84 1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies 1996 Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash 1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. Ed), dies at 96 1995 David Avidan, poet and writer, dies at 62 1995 William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 1994 Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 1994 Danny Overbea, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 68 1994 Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63 1994 Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 1994 Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64 1992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 1992 Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic and Span), dies at 98 1991 Filip J Field, dies at 67 1991 Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies 1988 H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies 1985 Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84 1985 Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego and Echo), dies at 77 1985 Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack 1985 Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies 1983 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 1982 Leigh Snowden, actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies at 51 of cancer 1982 Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70 1981 Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain and lung cancer at 36 1981 Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 1979 Joan Chandler, dies at 55 1979 Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64 1978 John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 1976 Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78 1976 Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68 1976 J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered 1973 Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies 1965 Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86 1965 Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 1960 John D Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist, dies at 86 1960 John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman 1956 Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 1953 Jean Adair, dies at 80 1952 Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87 1949 Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65 1947 Else JT Rangstrom, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies 1947 Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62 1944 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1938 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45 1938 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 1937 Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 1935 Edward H Thompson, U.S. archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 1927 Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 1927 Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40 1920 William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 1917 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 1916 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies 1916 Max Reger, composer, dies at 43 1916 Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 1914 Daniel De Leon, Activist 1908 Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer 1907 John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 1895 Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 1885 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, dies at 73 1881 Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 1871 John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 1857 E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 1849 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38 1849 Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor, dies at 39 1845 Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 1819 Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 1779 John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68 1778 William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 1772 Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged 1742 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 1731 Mary Astell, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage', dies soon after having breast cancer 1631 Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 1610 Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
