2005 Eddie Barclay, French Musician 2001 Jason Miller, playwright/actor, That Championship Season, dies at 62 2000 Paul Bartel, director/actor, Eating Raoul, dies at 61 1999 Meg Greenfield, journalist, Washington Post, dies at 68 1996 John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57 1994 Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77 1994 Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74 1994 Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88 1993 Borolas, Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71 1993 Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist 1964 Olympic gold, dies at 47 1993 Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71 1992 Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58 1991 Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83 1990 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies 1988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59 1985 Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) New York City at 91 1985 Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64 1984 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1982 Irmgard Keun, W-German writer (Bluhende Neurosen), dies at 72 1982 Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64 1982 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74 1981 Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76 1979 Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65 1975 Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69 1972 Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 41 1971 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67 1967 Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64 1966 Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1962 Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60 1962 Franz Jozef Kline, U.S. expressionist painter, dies at 51 1962 H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water) 1962 Franz Kline, American Artist 1961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60 1956 Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 1951 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65 1942 Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41 1933 Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa', dies at 67 in Sankt Georgen, Austria 1931 Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79 1930 Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies 1930 Helena Lange, German feminist, dies 1925 Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies 1916 Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies 1914 R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies 1904 Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies 1896 Nora Perry, writer, dies 1892 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63 1885 Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies 1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies 1882 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35 1878 Joseph Henry, American Scientist 1873 Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79 1864 Junius Daniel, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1839 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies 1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies 1835 John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies 1832 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La Regne Animal), dies at 62 1831 Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74 1812 Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62 1809 Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman 1793 Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72 1787 Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38 1776 Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71 1732 Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72 1619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded 1390 Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies 1381 John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies 384 Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+
