2003 Michael Kamen, composer, Brazil, dies at 55 2002 James Coburn, actor, Affliction, dies at 74 1999 Paul Bowles, writer, The Sheltering Sky, dies at 88 1996 David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69 1996 John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1995 Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86 1995 Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer 1994 Cab[ell] Calloway, U.S. band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86 1994 Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51 1994 Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77 1993 Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93 1992 Dorothy Kirsten, U.S. soprano, dies from stroke at 82 1992 Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies 1991 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78 1990 Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies 1989 Henry de Vries, painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies 1987 Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53 1982 Donald Dillaway, actor (Min and Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78 1982 H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60 1978 Jim Jones, U.S. pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide 1978 Leo J. Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members 1977 Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89 1976 Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 1973 Alois Haba, Czechoslovakian (opera)composer (Neuland), dies at 80 1972 Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose 1972 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90 1971 Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44 1970 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56 1969 Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Massachusetts, at 81 1969 Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85 1968 Walter Wanger, U.S. producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74 1966 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies 1965 Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77 1965 Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President 1962 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63 1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 1962 Dennis Chavez, American Politician 1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 1951 John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57 1951 Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60 1951 William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66 1950 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60 1946 Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86 1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 1929 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 1919 Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies 1918 Jon Trausti, Gudmundur Magnusson, Iceland author (Godir), dies 1917 Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies 1904 Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies 1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68 1887 Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 1887 Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 1887 Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80 1886 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-85), dies in New York at 56 1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies 1854 Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1852 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 1841 Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77 1827 Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 1822 Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 1822 George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65 1796 Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 1771 Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 1664 Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44 1630 Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried 1603 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61 1170 Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70 942 Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
