1999 Bethel Leslie, actress/writer, Long Day's Journey into Night, dies at 70 1999 Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91 1998 Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher 1998 Dante Fascell, Representative-D-Florida 1955 - 1993, died of colorectal cancer 1997 Georges Marchal, actor (Dirty Game, Blondine), dies at 77 1996 Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84 1994 Al Levitt, American jazz artist, dies at 63 1994 Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77 1994 Jeffrey Dahmer, Butcher of Milwaukee, killer, killed in prison at 34 1994 Jerry Rubin, U.S. anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56 1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62 1994 Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87 1993 Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23 1993 Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78 1993 Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75 1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25 1992 Bill Kearns, U.S. actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69 1992 June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75 1992 Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies 1990 Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31 1989 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91 1987 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74 1987 Paul Arma, pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, dies at 83 1986 Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76 1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76 1985 Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83 1983 Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54 1978 Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69 1977 Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75 1977 John Little McClellan, Senator-D-Arkansas 1943 - 1977 1976 Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55 1976 Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68 1972 Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91 1972 Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96 1971 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo 1970 Fritz vs. Unruh, writer, dies at 85 1970 Jan Drda, Czechoslovakian author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55 1969 Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67 1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 1967 Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies 1966 Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63 1964 Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70 1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93 1963 Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55 1963 Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23 1962 Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948), dies at 82 1960 Richard N Wright, U.S. author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France 1959 Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1947 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44 1945 Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies 1944 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn 1944 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies 1944 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25 1944 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43 1940 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist 1940 Jesse Livermore, American Businessman 1939 James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78 1927 Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies 1918 Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60 1916 Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59 1915 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76 1912 Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies 1907 Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43 1899 Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 1898 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland 1878 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78 1876 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84 1861 Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54 1860 Heinrich Florida Rellstab, German music theorist, dies 1859 Washington Irving, U.S. author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies 1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies 1815 Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70 1794 Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/U.S. inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64 1788 Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53 1785 William Whipple, merchant, judge, and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 1695 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58 1694 Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet 1680 Giovanni L Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1641 Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50 1590 Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Netherlands theologist, dies at about 60 1559 Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58 1545 Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded 1514 Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies 1499 Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded 1262 Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies 1058 Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies 741 Gregory III, Syrian Pope, dies
