2012 Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93 2004 Philippe de Broca, director, King of Hearts, dies at 69 1999 Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, The Natural Superiority of Women, dies at 94 1999 Ashley Montague, English Scientist 1997 Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62 1996 Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91 1996 Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84 1996 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 1996 Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82 1995 Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106 1995 David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51 1995 Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52 1995 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79 1995 Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40 1994 Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71 1994 David Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, dies at 69 1994 Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99 1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death 1993 Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69 1992 Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36 1991 Bob Johnson, U.S. hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60 1991 Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70 1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia 1990 David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74 1989 Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies 1987 Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89 1987 Thomas G Lanphier, Jr., U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71 1986 Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48 1986 Scatman Crothers, singer and actor (Shining, Chico and The Man), dies at 76 1985 Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87 1982 Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73 1982 Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98 1982 Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73 1981 Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80 1981 Max Euwe, Dutch 1980 Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53 1974 Cyril Connolly, English Journalist 1973 Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison 1973 John Rostill, born in Kings Norton, England, composer, bass guitarist, member, The Shadows, The Internst, rock and roll, pop genres, dies at 31 in Radlett, Hertfordshire 1971 Joe Adonis, U.S. crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey, dies at 68 1970 B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago 1968 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 1966 Harold Burrage, U.S. singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35 1966 Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77 1965 Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60 1963 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies 1962 Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90 1961 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86 1959 Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84 1957 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies 1957 Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70 1956 Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51 1950 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83 1943 Edward H "Butch" O'hare, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle 1939 James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies 1938 Henry Schultz, U.S. farm commune, dies 1933 Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84 1929 Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74 1928 Reinhard Scheer, German Admiral (WW I), dies at 65 1927 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47 1926 John M Brown, U.S. weapons constructer, dies 1925 Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78 1923 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1882 Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies 1880 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52 1866 Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59 1866 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72 1857 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 1855 Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56 1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies 1822 Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53 1821 Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57 1810 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65 1809 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56 1778 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68 1776 Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies 1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53 1661 Don Luis Mendez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63 1653 Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51 1651 Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 1504 Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon (1474-04), dies at 53 1267 Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies 1240 Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies 1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated 399 Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies
