2007 Robert Goulet, dies in Los Angeles, California, awaiting a lung transplant for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at 73 2007 Peter Hoagland, Representative-D-Nebraska 1989 - 1995, died at age 65 2006 Clifford Geertz, American Scientist 2005 Al Lopez, American Coach 2002 Jam Master Jay, American Musician 2000 Steve Allen, writer/TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 80 1997 Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86 1996 Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur, dies at 101 1996 Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79 1995 Brian Easdale, composer, dies at 86 1995 Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71 1994 Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 1993 Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered 1991 Johan Mekkink, painter, dies 1991 Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62 1991 William Shea, (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84 1990 Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42 1990 Henry Lauter, actor (Tarzan's Fight), dies 1988 John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86 1988 Sugar Geise, actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71 1986 Andrzej Markowski, composer, dies at 62 1985 Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74 1984 June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66 1984 Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61 1981 Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies 1973 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer, dies at 77 1972 Alan Roth, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68 1971 Osvald Chlubna, composer, dies at 78 1968 Conrad Richter, U.S. writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 1968 Pert Kelton, actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61 1968 Rose Wilder Lane, American Journalist 1967 Charles Trowbridge, actor (Mummy's Hand), dies at 85 1961 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies 1960 Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89 1959 Blonde Dolly, Sybille A J Niemans, society prostitute, dies at 33 1958 Rose Macaulay, writer, dies at 77 1956 Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (Caeser or Nothing), dies at 84 1953 Emmerich Kalman, Hungarian composer (Die Zirkusprinzessin), dies at 71 1944 Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer, dies at 66 1932 Paul S Methuen, English baron/Field Marshal/Governor of Natal, dies at 87 1928 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer, dies at 55 1925 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 1923 Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 1919 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer 1916 Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70 1914 Ernst Stadler, writer, dies at 31 1912 Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56 1912 Preston Lockwood, British actor and writer, dies 1910 J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies 1903 Ozaki Koyo (Amorous Confessions of 2 Nuns), dies 1901 U Benson, British Lt-colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle 1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 1896 Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (C), dies 1893 John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 1885 Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57 1883 Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer, dies at 80 1862 Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, U.S. astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53 1853 Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66 1842 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet 1833 Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58 1816 Frederik I WK, 1st king of Wurttemberg (1806-16), dies 1787 Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58 1785 Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54 1757 Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies 1711 Willem Brakel, Fries theologist (Reasonable Religion), dies at 76 1690 Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76 1676 Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies 1667 Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54 1661 Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, dies at 74 1632 Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded 1626 Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35 1626 Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46 1611 Karl IX, King of Sweden (1604-11), dies 1583 Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83 1459 Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, chancellor of Florence, dies