2003 Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75 2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72 2002 Ray Conniff, arranger/bandleader, Lara's Theme, dies at 85 2001 Lord Hailsham, British Politician 1999 Wilt Chamberlain, "Wilt ""The Stilt"" Chamberlain", basketball great/sometime actor, Record-smashing basketball player who scored over 70 points in several pro games, dies at 63 1997 John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53 1996 David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86 1996 Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79 1996 Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75 1996 Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84 1995 Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78 1995 Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55 1993 Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke 1992 Alexander Pola, Abraham Polak, actor and writer (Farce Major), dies 1992 John Hancock, actor (Catch the Heat), dies of a heart attack at 51 1992 Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident 1991 Aline MacMahon, U.S. actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92 1991 Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89 1991 Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75 1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies 1990 Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered 1989 Franco, Francis Luambo/"Makiadi", Zaire composer/music, dies at 51 1989 Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends), dies at 79 1988 Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85 1987 Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100 1987 Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77 1987 Alf Landon, American Politician 1985 Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75 1985 Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32 1983 Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61 1982 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73 1979 Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82 1977 Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81 1974 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74 1971 Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78 1971 Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36 1971 Dean Acheson, American Statesman 1969 Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter, dies 1969 Sonja Henie, figure skater, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics, dies at 57 1967 Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72 1966 Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74 1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office 1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61 1959 Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63 1958 Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30 1958 Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59 1951 Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62 1948 Alfred Kerr, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe', dies at 80 1947 Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42 1946 Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies 1940 Tom Mix, U.S. actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60 1929 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52 1924 Anatole France, writer, dies at 80 1924 Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71 1922 Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33 1915 Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Edith Cavell, American Public Servant 1892 Ernest Renan, French Philosopher 1887 Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 1870 Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 1870 Robert E. Lee, American Soldier 1865 William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53 1864 Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 1860 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 1859 Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity 1858 Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61 1844 Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies 1837 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 1829 Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 1820 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 1817 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 1797 Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 1794 James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 1791 A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 1730 Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies 1694 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies 1692 Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 1685 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59 1672 Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle 1654 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch court clerk of States-General, dies at 66 1654 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident 1646 Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies 1576 Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies 1343 Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies 1320 Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies 1093 Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 642 Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies 638 Honorius I, dux plebis, Italian Pope, dies
