2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut/businessman, dies at 77 1996 Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83 1996 Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87 1995 Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81 1994 Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90 1994 Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49 1994 Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 1993 Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80 1992 Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands 1992 Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer 1992 Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands 1991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 1990 Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67 1990 Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58 1989 Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48 1982 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier, dies 1982 Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50 1979 Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56 1976 Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74 1975 Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72 1974 Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 1972 Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61 1972 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68 1971 Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76 1971 Norman Cota, American Soldier 1970 George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71 1970 Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27 1968 Francis Biddle, American Lawyer 1966 Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66 1962 John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 1961 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies 1955 Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal, dies 1949 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75 1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1946 Gifford Pinchot, American Politician 1944 Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician 1943 Richard T Ely, U.S. economist (Ground under our feet), dies 1929 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37 1912 General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed 1907 Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57 1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies 1903 Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher 1893 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88 1892 Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39 1890 Catherine Booth, American Activist 1880 William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies 1863 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69 1862 William Duncan Smith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 36 1859 Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57 1848 Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 1838 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79 1833 Richard Heber, English Celebrity 1830 Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Governor-General of E-Prussia, dies at 71 1806 Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman 1755 Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies 1743 John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, dies at 64 1721 Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 1713 Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76 1669 Rembrandt H van Ron, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies 1590 Cujacius, Jacques Cujas, French lawyer, dies at about 68 1582 Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies 1582 Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint 1571 Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60 1564 Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies 1540 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies 1072 Sancho II, king of Castilie/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
