2010 Albertina Walker, a famous U.S. gospel singer known as the 'Queen of Gospel' dies in Chicago 2008 Norman Hogg, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997, dies after a long illness, at 70 1997 Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66 1996 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 1996 Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 1996 Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 1996 Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33 1996 William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 1995 Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 1995 Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 1995 John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 1995 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45 1994 Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 1994 Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81 1994 John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 1994 Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50 1993 Manke Nelis, Cornelis Pieters, singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73 1992 Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 1991 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 1985 Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat 1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 1984 Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke 1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 1982 Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 1982 Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 1979 June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 1978 Jim Gilliam, coach (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 49 1978 Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70 1978 Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 1975 Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 1973 Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies 1971 Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 1971 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79 1970 Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 1970 Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies 1969 Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81 1967 Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 1967 [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies 1967 Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1964 Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 1963 Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist 1956 Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 1953 Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 1953 Nigel Bruce, actor Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes', dies at 58 1947 Felix Salten, Siegmund Salzmann, Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 1945 Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73 1944 Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 1944 Wendell L. Wilkie, American Lawyer 1940 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 1936 Munshi Premchand, Indian Writer 1931 John Monash, Australian Soldier 1927 Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentine poet and writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies 1925 Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies 1919 Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies 1912 Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88 1907 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65 1904 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62 1897 Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43 1895 Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76 1888 Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies 1869 Franklin Peirce, 14th president 1853 - 1857, dies in Concord, New Hampshire at 64 1865 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 1864 Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34 1863 Richard Whately, English Writer 1862 James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1842 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68 1834 Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58 1803 Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 1803 Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist 1793 John Hancock, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 56 1772 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60 1771 John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 1754 Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 1728 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 1722 Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 1686 Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55 1683 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 1680 Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61 1656 Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 1651 Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 1613 Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 1606 Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies 1604 Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, literature/politician, dies at 58 1253 Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies 1094 St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice 705 Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
