2008 Eddy Arnold, dies in Tennessee, at 89 2005 Lloyd Cutler, American Lawyer 2005 Lloyd Norton Cutler, American Lawyer 1999 Dana Plato, child star, Different Strokes, dies at 34 1999 Dirk Bogarde, actor/writer, A Tale of Two Cities, dies at 78 1997 Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies 1996 Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80 1996 Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69 1996 Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95 1995 Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63 1995 Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80 1995 Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83 1995 Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41 1994 Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 1994 George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65 1994 Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36 1994 Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 1993 Kees Deenik, singer/conductor 1992 Addeke H Boerma, dir-general (FAO), dies at 80 1992 Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59 1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies 1992 Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer 1991 Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84 1991 Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 1990 Tomas O'Fiach, Tomas Seamus Fee, Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies 1988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80 1988 Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer 1987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off 1985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74 1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69 1985 Karl Marx, German composer and conductor, dies at 87 1985 Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer 1982 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident 1982 Neil Bogart, American Businessman 1981 Daniel Gilles, Belgian writer, dies at 64 1981 Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies 1981 Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 vs. Eng), dies 1979 Talcott Parsons, U.S. sociologist, dies at 76 1976 Alan Baxter, dies at 67 1976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies 1975 Avery Brundage, CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87 1974 Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train 1973 Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies 1967 Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39 1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 1967 Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51 1961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63 1960 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88 1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered 1957 Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75 1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40 1950 Franklin Dyall, dies at 76 1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81 1943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 1941 Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86 1936 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies 1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1930 Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61 1924 Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23 1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82 1909 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies 1908 Ludovic Halevy, French Author 1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies 1903 Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies 1894 Klara Fey, German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 1891 Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day 1887 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar 1885 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65 1880 Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammbo), dies 1876 Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies 1873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56 1861 Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide 1853 Joannes P. Roothaan, 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel - General of Jesuits, dies at 67 1846 Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59 1844 Charles XIV Johan, Jean B Bernadotte, King of Sweden/Norway, dies 1829 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 1818 Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78 1809 Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 1794 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined 1794 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist 1785 Pietro Longhi, painter, dies 1773 Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies 1725 John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle 1684 Henri Dumont, composer, dies 1577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies 1319 Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies 685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies 535 John, Mercurius, Italian Pope (533-35), dies