2008 Robert Rauschenberg, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 82 2004 Syd Hoff, cartoonist/children's book illustrator, The New Yorker, dies at 91 2001 Perry Como, singer, dies at 88 2000 David B. Guralnik, Webster's lexicographer, dies at 79 2000 Adam Petty, American Celebrity 1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 1996 Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84 1996 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35 1995 Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95 1995 Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71 1995 Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91 1994 David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91 1994 Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63 1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 1994 Erik Erikson, Psychologist 1992 Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies 1992 Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59 1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81 1989 Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89 1987 Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53 1986 Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85 1986 Lee Bonnell, dies 1985 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies 1985 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1984 Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure 1982 Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66 1981 Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies 1980 Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies 1973 Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85 1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 1970 Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78 1967 Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64 1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 1963 Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69 1963 Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman 1962 Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67 1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70 1960 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71 1956 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87 1956 Louis Calhern, dies at 61 1956 Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65 1951 Oscar Stanton De Priest, Representative-D-Illinois 1929 - 1935, dies at 80 1948 Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55 1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 1944 Max Brand, American Writer 1943 Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48 1941 Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48 1937 Gerry Studds, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1973 - 1997, died of a pulmonary embolism 1935 Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies 1932 Lindbergh baby, found dead 1931 Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 1931 Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70 1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 1925 Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51 1925 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82 1924 Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82 1921 Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies 1908 Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69 1907 J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59 1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53 1897 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies 1896 Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38 1884 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czechoslovakian composer (2 Widows), dies at 60 1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 1871 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89 1871 John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies 1864 Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 37 1864 J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 1861 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50 1852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies 1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 1845 August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet 1843 Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74 1825 Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75 1825 Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75 1814 Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 1811 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52 1796 Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 1795 Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman 1792 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist 1788 Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69 1737 Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83 1700 John Dryden, English Poet 1649 Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered 1641 Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 1634 George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies 1382 Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies 1012 Sergius IV, Pietro Crescentii, Italian Pope (1009-12), dies 1003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome 1003 Sylvester II, Gerbert van Aurillac, 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies 912 Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
