2003 Rachel Kempson, actress, Jewel in the Crown, dies at 92 2001 Patricia Hilliard Robertson, astronaut, dies at 38 1997 Edward Mulhare, actor, TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, dies of lung cancer at 74 1996 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83 1996 Harry Campion, statistician, dies at 91 1996 Jack McCarthy, kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81 1996 Jacob R Druckman, composer, dies at 67 1996 John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90 1996 Joseph Mitchell, writer, dies at 87 1995 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1994 Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48 1994 John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69 1994 Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69 1994 Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96 1994 John Wain, English Poet 1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66 1993 Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66 1992 Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79 1991 Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49 1989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72 1988 James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87 1987 Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 1986 Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76 1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33 1986 Yakima Canutt, actor and director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 1981 George Jessel, actor (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 83 1981 Jack Warner, Waters, actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84 1981 Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash 1979 Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies 1976 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies at 62 1976 Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65 1974 Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at 75 1972 Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88 1972 Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64 1969 Mitzi Green, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer), dies at 48 1968 Bernard Rogers, composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75 1963 Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack 1959 John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State 1953 - 1959, dies at 71 1956 Guy Kibbee, actor (Captain Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74 1953 Cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63 1950 Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1948 Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78 1943 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84 1941 Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle 1919 Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican poet, dies at 48 1895 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 1894 William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63 1881 Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies 1879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 1876 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 1872 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies 1871 Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40 1861 Elmer Ellsworth, U.S. warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 1861 James T Jackson, U.S. landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead) 1851 Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 1850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74 1848 A V Droste-Hulshoff, writer, dies at 51 1844 William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies 1831 Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62 1826 Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37 1817 Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63 1804 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 1792 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies 1792 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies 1773 Jan Zach, composer, organist, violinist, composed Baroque and classical music, dies at 73 in Ellwangen, Germany 1762 Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51 1751 William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies 1696 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62 1670 Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59 1669 Pieter Cuypers, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at 48 1665 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies 1612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48 1543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland 1153 David I, King of Scotland, dies 1144 Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies
