2012 British film actress, Dinah Sheridan, dies at the age of 92 2004 David Bailey, actor, Passions, dies at 71 1998 Flip Wilson, comic, The Flip Wilson Show, dies at 64 1998 Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher 1997 Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54 1997 Fenton Robinson, U.S. blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62 1997 Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies 1996 Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79 1996 Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86 1996 Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87 1995 Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92 1994 Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79 1994 Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 1993 Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76 1993 Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77 1991 Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies 1991 Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86 1990 Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27 1989 Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies 1989 Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Governor-General, dies 1987 Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92 1987 Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65 1982 Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in New York City of a heart attack at 73 1981 Jack Albertson, actor (Chico and the Man), dies at 74 1980 George Raft, New York City, actor (Scarface), dies at 85 1977 Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65 1975 Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies 1974 Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26 1974 Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives), dies at 61 1974 [Sithu] U Thant, United Nations Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in New York of cancer at 65 1973 Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45 1972 Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79 1972 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor 1971 Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 84 1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 1968 Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93 1968 Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89 1968 Upton B Sinclair, U.S. author (Jungle), dies at 90 1967 Ossip Zadkine, Zadkin, Russian sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77 1964 Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90 1959 Gerard Philipe, French actor (El Cid, Don Carlos), dies at 36 1958 Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82 1958 Charles Kettering, American Inventor 1952 Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72 1952 Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71 1951 Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63 1950 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author 1949 Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71 1948 Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61 1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78 1941 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies 1935 Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72 1923 Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83 1923 Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies 1914 Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79 1913 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies 1901 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62 1895 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68 1893 Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist (Was Europe a Success?), dies 1887 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71 1885 Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27 1885 Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office 1883 Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76 1865 Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies 1854 John G Lockhart, scorpion, English biographer, dies at 60 1830 Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56 1815 Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70 1773 Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66 1755 Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76 1750 Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77 1640 Giles Farnaby, composer, dies 1456 Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle 1185 Lucius III, Ubaldo Allucingoli, Italian Pope (1181-85), dies 1120 Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowns 1120 William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17 992 Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies
