2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80 2000 William P. Bundy, American Historian 1997 Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82 1996 Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57 1996 Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61 1995 Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88 1995 Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67 1995 Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35 1993 Agnes de Mille, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88 1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70 1991 Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66 1989 Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81 1989 Bette Davis, American Actress 1984 George S Simpson, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 82 1984 George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist 1983 Terence Cooke, cardinal and archbishop of New York, dies at 62 1981 Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt 1970 - 1981, assassinated at 62 1980 Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56 1980 Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies 1979 Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 1975 Henry Calvin, actor (Sergeant Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57 1974 Luther H. Hodges, American Politician 1973 Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71 1973 Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58 1973 Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58 1970 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69 1969 Walter Hagen, PGA golfer (U.S. Open 1914, 19), dies at 76 1966 Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48 1965 Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78 1964 Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85 1960 Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50 1956 Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42 1956 Charles E. Merrill, American Businessman 1954 Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78 1953 Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64 1951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated 1949 Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70 1947 Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60 1943 Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort and catcher Walker, dies 1942 Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies 1940 Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55 1935 Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83 1935 Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35), dies 1933 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62 1926 Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies 1924 Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75 1920 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56 1919 Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer/poet: Armonias/Rodil, dies at 86 1912 August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83 1909 Dudley Buck, U.S. organist/composer, dies at 70 1905 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies 1892 Alfred Tennyson, writer, dies at 83 1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet 1891 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45 1891 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician 1880 Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies 1874 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50 1868 Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51 1861 Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84 1860 Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55 1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 1853 Simon Greenleaf, American Judge 1849 Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43 1837 Jean-Franeois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 1819 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies 1786 Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56 1762 Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78 1651 Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47 1644 Isabella van Bourbon, French princess of Henri IV, dies 1641 Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle 1585 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies 1214 Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castilie, dies 1072 Sancho II, king of Castilie (1065-72), murdered 1014 Samuel, ruler of Bulgaria, dies 877 Charles II the Kale, King of France/Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54 404 Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies
