2007 Alan Coren, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC, died of necrotising fasciitis 2002 Kam Fong, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 84 2000 Gwen Verdon, actress/dancer, Damn Yankees, dies at 75 2000 Julie London, singer/actress, Emergency!, dies at 74 1997 Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62 1997 Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70 1997 Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65 1997 Roberto Goizueta, Cuban Businessman 1996 Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71 1996 Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91 1995 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67 1995 Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69 1995 John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90 1995 Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56 1994 Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68 1994 Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60 1994 WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45 1994 Cab Calloway, American Musician 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63 1993 Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71 1993 Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31 1988 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60 1987 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83 1985 Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 1984 Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82 1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26 1983 19/10? Albert "Carel" Willink, painter: magic(al)-realism, dies at 83 1982 Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97 1982 Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82 1982 Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55), dies 1978 Jacques Mornard, Ramon Mercader, murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64 1975 Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47 1973 Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86 1973 Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79 1973 Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60 1973 Margaret Anderson, American Editor 1973 Leo Strauss, German Philosopher 1968 Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 1966 Bill Nestell, U.S. actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73 1965 Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73 1965 Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91 1963 Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68 1955 Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72 1953 Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57 1953 Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80 1948 [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German Field Marshal, dies 1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55 1943 Benedictus H Dancer, botanist, dies at 52 1941 Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Netherlands-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83 1940 Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65 1939 Charles M. Schwab, American Businessman 1938 Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies 1931 Thomas Edison, 1931 Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84 1911 Alfred Binet, French Psychologist 1910 Thaddaus Robl, German bicyclist (world record), dies 1909 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies 1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 1893 Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75 1893 Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, U.S. abolitionist/feminist, dies 1893 Charles Gounod, French Composer 1876 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85 1865 Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1864 David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39 1864 Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68 1862 James Creighton, dies of rupture bladder from hitting home run on Oct 14th 1839 French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68 1832 Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73 1830 Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies 1817 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, opera composer (Chant du depart), dies at 54 1788 Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56 1771 Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62 1767 Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45 1708 Henry Van Nassau, stable master/Field Marshal, dies at 67 1678 Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63 1678 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok painter, dies at 85 1676 Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29 1669 Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazilie), dies 1634 Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42 1589 Adolf van Nieuwenaar and Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle 1562 Petrus van Alcantara, Spanish Franciscan saint, dies 1558 Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Netherlands (1531-55), dies at 53 1545 John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55 1526 Lucas Vazquez de Ayllo, Spanish colonialist (settles SC), dies 1503 Pius III, Francesco Todeschini, Pope (9/22-10/18/1503), dies 1459 Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies 1340 Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies 1216 John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies 707 John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies
