2005 Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 1996 Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79 1996 Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82 1996 Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85 1996 Pud Brown, jazz musician, dies at 79 1995 C. W. Stubblefield, music Promoter, dies at 64 1995 Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78 1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 1994 Red Rodney, Albino Red/The Red Arrow, bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66 1994 Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95 1993 Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies 1993 Willem P G Assmann, Dutch MP, dies at 85 1992 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55 1992 Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42 1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 1992 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St. Valentines Day), dies at 86 1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88 1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 1988 Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79 1988 Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, U.S. jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 1988 Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies 1986 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82 1985 Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80 1983 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67 1982 Jo Lagrilliere, Joke, Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47 1976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80 1975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53 1971 Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 1969 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43 1968 Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30 1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader 1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered 1960 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65 1960 George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74 1958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46 1958 Samuel Stritch, U.S. cardinal and archbishop (Chicago), dies 1954 Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies 1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies 1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 1941 Gunther Lutjens, German Admiral (Bismarck), dies 1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44 1934 Meijer Linnewiel, Amsterdam street hawker, dies 1933 James Loeb, American Businessman 1925 Ed McKeever, President (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia 1918 Henry Adams, U.S. literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 1916 Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies 1910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies 1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies 1896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies 1887 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86 1878 Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49 1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies 1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies 1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57 1797 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36 1790 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89 1768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies 1708 Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51 1702 Dominique Bouhours, French Critic 1690 Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 1652 Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39 1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass 1638 Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71 1627 Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73 1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies 1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies 1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44 1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies 1564 Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54 1564 John Calvin, French Theologian 1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns 1541 Margaretha, duchess of Salisbury, beheaded 1525 Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1508 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55 1178 Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies 1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies 927 Symeon, czar of Bulgaria ( -927) 866 Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies