2001 Anthony Shaffer, playwright, Sleuth, dies at 75 2000 L. Sprague de Camp, writer, Lest Darkness Fall, dies at 92 1997 Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67 1996 Mario Savio, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, dies of heart attack at 53 1996 Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85 1996 Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80 1995 Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90 1995 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71 1995 Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82 1994 Dean A. Gallo, Representative-R-New Jersey 1985 - 1994, died of prostate cancer 1991 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64 1991 Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70 1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73 1987 Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89 1987 William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons New York City), dies at 80 1985 Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44 1983 Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69 1980 Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77 1978 Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67 1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1972 Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21 1972 Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52 1969 Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69 1968 Charles Munch, French/U.S. conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, dies at 77 1968 Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 1965 Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67 1965 Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81 1963 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52 1958 Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78 1955 Charley Toorop, Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop, Dutch painter, dies at 64 1955 Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82 1953 John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76 1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66 1946 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76 1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered 1944 Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 1939 Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69 1935 Billy Sunday, American Athlete 1929 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62 1922 William Baines, composer, dies at 23 1914 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79 1912 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70 1901 Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48 1901 Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55 1900 PWJ Le Gallais, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville 1897 Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80 1893 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Rus composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53 1876 Giacomo Antonelli, Secretary of State of Pius IX, dies at 70 1875 John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71 1865 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51 1862 Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 1839 Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies 1836 Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79 1835 Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56 1822 Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71 1801 Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78 1796 Catherine the Great, Russian Royalty 1795 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73 1771 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69 1730 Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded 1712 Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58 1672 Heinrich Schutz, German composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), dies at 87 1669 Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71 1656 Johan IV, duke of Braganea/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52 1650 Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24 1632 Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 1406 Innocent VII, Cosma de' Migliorati, Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
