2007 Mary Douglas, dies in London, from complications of cancer, at 86 2004 June Taylor, choreographer, Jackie Gleason Show, dies at 85 2003 Mark McCormack, American Businessman 2002 Dave Berg, cartoonist, Mad, dies at 81 1996 Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 1996 Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57 1996 Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 1996 Jeremy Boorda, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations, dies of suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Washington, D.C. 1995 Lola Flores, singer and actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70 1995 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82 1994 Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies 1994 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 1994 Vasek Simek, Czechoslovakian/U.S. actor, 'Green Card', 'Mistress', dies at 66 1993 Marv Johnson, U.S. soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54 1992 Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies 1990 Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian 1990 Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53 1990 Sammy Davis, Jr., singer and actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64 1989 Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered 1988 Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42 1988 Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42 1988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress, played the Wicked Witch in the 'Wizard of Oz', dies at 82 1984 Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35 1984 Irwin Shaw, U.S. writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 1979 A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder 1973 A P Gutersloh, writer, dies at 86 1972 Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 1969 Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home 1959 Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69 1958 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49 1957 Eliot Ness, American Public Servant 1955 James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY 1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61 1954 Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38 1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian Musician 1949 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies 1944 George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 1944 Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75 1944 Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies 1942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies 1942 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist 1938 Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies 1932 Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered 1932 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies 1929 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies 1928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies 1926 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies 1924 Candy Cummings, American Athlete 1918 Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64 1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 1904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies 1903 Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 1892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies 1892 Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74 1880 Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76 1864 Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered 1863 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 1847 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies 1830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies 1829 William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56 1819 Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75 1805 Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 1782 Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies 1777 Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds 1768 Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81 1762 Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86 1754 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76 1703 Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies 1691 Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason 1669 Pietro da Cortona, Berrettini, painter/architect, dies 1669 Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 1620 William Adams, English Explorer 1434 Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
