2010 Dennis Hopper, actor, True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, dies in Venice, California, of prostate cancer, at age 74 2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate prosecutor, fired by Nixon during the Watergate hearings, dies at 92 2004 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly world's oldest person in 2004, dies at 114 2004 Sam Dash, lawyer, Senate counsel during Watergate, dies at 79 2004 Samuel Dash, American Lawyer 1998 Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964, dies at 89 from a stroke 1997 Jeff Buckley, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters, dies of an accidental drowning at age 30 1997 John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84 1997 George Fenneman, announcer, 'You Bet Your Life', dies at 77 1996 James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77 1996 Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45 1996 Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77 1995 Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Representative and Senator R-Maine, dies at 97 1994 Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 1994 Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 1994 Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92 1994 Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78 1994 Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61 1993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75 1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 1992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37 1992 Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies 1992 Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43 1992 Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44 1991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77 1987 Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40 1985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match 1985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93 1982 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 1979 Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86 1978 Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 49 1977 Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66 1973 Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies 1971 Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83 1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 1967 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69 1961 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60 1958 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75 1956 Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65 1956 Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73 1955 Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78 1951 Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66 1951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59 1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91 1951 Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85 1948 May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs. Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82 1943 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72 1942 John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 1935 Josef Suk, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer, dies at 61 1934 Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 1934 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies 1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies 1923 Adolf Oberlander, German painter, dies 1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 1916 James J. Hill, American Businessman 1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, English writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74 1911 William Gilbert, British Composer 1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 1905 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55 1899 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60 1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 1883 Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 1883 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies 1877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 1869 Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73 1862 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71 1833 William Marshall, composer, dies at 84 1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies 1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64 1814 Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies 1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61 1750 Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70 1691 Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61 1680 Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73 1660 Gyorgy Rakoczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle 1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 1629 Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74 1593 John Penry, English congressionalist, executed 1546 Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered 1544 Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68 1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns 1453 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
