1999 Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89 1997 Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies 1996 Bernard William George Rose, organist, dies at 80 Edward George Edwards, chenist, dies at 82 Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8), dies at 92 1995 Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer, dies at 81 George Ivan Smith, diplomat, dies at 80 Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60 Smilin' Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71 1994 Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42 1993 Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies of prostate cancer at 59 Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50 Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister of Laos 1975 - 1991, dies Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies 1991 Daniel Mann, U.S. director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79 David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner for the New York Jets, dies at 81 Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies Sonny Werblin, New York sports impresario, dies at 81 1988 Carl Hubbell, pitcher for the New York Giants-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA, dies in an auto accident 1987 James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79 1986 Jerry Colonna, actor (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 82 1982 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75 1981 Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns and Allen), dies at 75 1980 Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies 1976 Niles Welch, actor (Cornered), dies at 88 1975 G Gunnarsson, writer, dies at 86 1974 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84 1972 Karel Haba, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer, dies at 74 1967 Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84 1963 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61 Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71 Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies 1959 Max Baer, U.S., heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49 1958 Mel Ott, New York Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49 1954 Karol Rathaus, composer, dies at 59 Professor Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69 1952 Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82 William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79 1948 Bokke RS Pollema journalist/author (Lock of hair and loen), dies at 65 1945 Robert Benchley, U.S. humorist (My 10 years in a quandary), dies at 56 Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist 1942 James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76 1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California 1938 Leopold Godowsky, pianist/composer, dies at 68 1932 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies 1928 Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies 1926 Joseph McKenna, American Politician 1924 Florence Harding, American First Lady 1922 Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican Journalist 1920 Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77 William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77 1916 Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman 1907 Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Australia's early Tests), dies 1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President, dies 1882 Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35 1875 Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67 1870 Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet (Ruiker), dies at 69 1863 Joseph Mayseder, composer, dies at 74 1837 Thomas Babington, British Poet 1830 Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (Irene, Mohacs), dies at 44 1817 Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brigadier General 1813 William Russell, composer, dies at 36 1811 Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 1728 Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian General-Admiral, dies at about 57 1710 Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72 1695 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36 1624 Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown) 1610 Benedict van Canfield, William Fish, English missionary, dies 1580 Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed 1555 Georg Agricola, Bauer, German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 1481 Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87
