2004 Pierre Berton, journalist/historian, Klondike Fever, dies at 84 2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 2003 Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37 1998 Margaret Walker, American Poet 1997 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37 1997 Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76 1997 Kathy Acker, writer, Bodies of Work: Essays, dies at 54 1996 Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63 1996 Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89 1996 Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80 1996 Tiny Tim, Herbert Khaury, entertainer 'Tip Toe', dies at 71 1995 Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies 1995 June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66 1995 William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83 1994 Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67 1994 Guy Debord, born in Paris, France, filmmaker, hypergraphist, theorist, founding member of Lettrist International, Situationist International, dies at 63 1994 Irwin Kostal, U.S. arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83 1994 Lionel Stander, U.S. blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86 1993 Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies 1992 Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45 1990 Horst Bienek, German author, dies 1990 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75 1989 Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59 1987 Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89 1987 James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63 1987 Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74 1983 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI captain), dies 1981 Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72 1979 Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69 1979 Zeppo Marx, Herbert, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78 1976 Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85 1973 Bruce Yarnell, Los Angeles California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35 1972 Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71 1972 Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies 1972 Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70 1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies 1964 Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64 1961 Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80 1955 Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59 1954 Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68 1953 Francis Picabia, French Artist 1948 Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64 1947 Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies 1944 Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 1940 Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78 1939 Bela Kun, Balazs Kolozsvary, Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53 1938 Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies 1935 Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47 1935 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author 1931 John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75 1931 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46 1930 Mother Jones, American Activist 1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 1904 Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64 1901 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46 1897 Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64 1894 Joseph E. Brown, American Politician 1893 Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68 1864 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Otto French Strahl, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1846 Friedrich List, German Economist 1841 Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73 1830 Pius VIII, Francesco S Castiglioni, Italian Pope 1829 - 1830, dies at 69 1824 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87 1813 Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60 1798 Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32 1792 Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57 1777 Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74 1764 Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61 1760 Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Schaferfest), dies at 63 1718 Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), killed in battle at 36 1703 Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31 1700 Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75 1694 Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies 1679 Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45 1678 Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67 1654 John Selden, English Statesman 1646 John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45 1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies 1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1519 Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 1016 Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27
