2009 Derek B, rapper, record producer, remixer, popular songs included 'Bad Young Brother' and 'Goodgroove', dies of a heart attack in London, at age 44 2003 Dorothy Loudon, actress, Original Broadway production of Annie, dies at 70 2003 Laurence Tisch, entrepreneur/philanthropist, president of Loews Theatres, dies at 80 1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57 1998 Stokely Carmichael, American Activist 1997 Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85 1997 William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79 1996 Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92 1995 Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78 1995 Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81 1994 Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57 1994 James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90 1994 Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50 1994 Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies 1993 Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies 1993 Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinemonde), dies at 82 1993 Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered 1993 Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93 1990 Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54 1988 Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84 1986 Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89 1986 John E. Grotberg, Representative-R-Illinois 1985 - 1986 1985 Spencer W. Kimball, U.S. head of mormon church, dies at 90 1984 Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks 1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 1982 Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator 1981 Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85 1980 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75 1978 Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76 1976 Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72 1975 Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77 1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday 1969 Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75 1967 Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72 1967 Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37 1963 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies at 74 1961 Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51 1961 Elsie Ferguson, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 76 1961 Johanna Westerdok, 1st Dutch woman professor (Utrecht, 1917 - 1952), dies at 78 1958 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44 1955 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 1954 Lionel Barrymore, Blythe, actor (Dr. Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76 1950 Agnes Repplier, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter', dies 1944 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed 1934 Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Netherlands manufacturer (Devout and D), dies 1932 Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist 1931 Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies 1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies 1918 Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26 1917 John W. Foster, American Soldier 1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1915 Booker T. Washington, American Educator 1910 Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79 1908 Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies 1908 Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73 1907 Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73 1897 John Mercer Langston, U.S. black jurist, dies at 67 1863 Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies 1848 P Rossi, Italian, murdered 1842 Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43 1832 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63 1831 Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76 1815 Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65 1812 Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57 1788 Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77 1787 Christoph W. Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphigenie Tauride), dies at 73 1691 Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71 1670 Jan A Comenius, Komensky, Czechoslovakia/Netherlands educator/philosopher, dies 1670 John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator 1658 Jacobus Revius, Reefsen, theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72 1634 Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53 1630 Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58 1630 Johannes Kepler, German Scientist 1629 Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49 1280 Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 1194 Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies 565 Justitianus I, Petrus Sabbatius, Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies
