2007 Deborah Kerr, dies in England, at 86 2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79 2000 Rick Jason, actor, Combat, dies at 74 1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78 1998 Jon Postel, Father of the Internet, dies at 55 1997 Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79 1997 James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 1997 James A. Michener, American Novelist 1996 Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75 1996 Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85 1996 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82 1996 James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68 1996 Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58 1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 1995 Linda Goodman, astrologer, dies 1995 Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60 1995 Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59 1994 William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87 1993 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 85 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 1991 Tonny Huurdeman, singer and actress (Frills), dies 1990 Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71 1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74 1987 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75 1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65 1986 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85 1985 Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78 1984 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84 1984 Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer 1983 George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 1982 Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86 1982 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 1982 Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada 1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies 1981 William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63 1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 1978 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor, dies at 63 1977 Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81 1973 Gene Krupa, U.S. swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64 1972 Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 1969 Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman 1962 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water and Dreams), dies at 78 1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78 1959 George Marshall, American Statesman 1959 George C. Marshall, American Soldier 1954 Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67 1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar 1949 Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85 1946 Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged 1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54 1946 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged 1946 Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer and conductor, dies at 78 1946 Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged 1946 Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged 1946 Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal, hanged 1946 Hans Frank, German Public Servant 1946 Alfred Jodl, German Soldier 1944 Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52 1944 John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78 1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1939 Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 1920 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56 1919 Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday 1918 Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29 1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 1893 Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75 1891 Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies 1880 Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64 1877 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83 1867 Salomon J Rappoport, Czechoslovakian rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies 1862 George Burgwyn Anderson, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 31 1849 George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies 1836 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 1817 Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies 1814 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 1799 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 1793 Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France 1791 Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies 1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies 1750 Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 1726 Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 1694 Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 1690 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 1688 Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 1649 Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 1594 William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 1591 Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Italian Pope, dies at 56 1570 Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered 1555 Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 1555 Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned 1553 Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 1473 Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies 1333 Nicolaas V, Pietro Rainalducci, Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies 1323 Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 775 Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies