2009 Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies 2005 Serge Lang, Mathematician 2003 Johnny Cash, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line", dies at 71 2002 Lloyd Biggle, "science fiction, mystery writer", dies at 79 2001 Victor Wong, actor/newscaster, Big Trouble in Little China, dies at 74 1998 John Holliman, CNN journalist, dies at 49 1997 Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66 1997 Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74 1996 Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89 1996 Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87 1996 George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59 1996 James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66 1996 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86 1995 Geoffrey Stokes, rock and roll writer, dies at 55 1995 Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59 1995 Jeremy William Huggins Brett (Moll Flanders), actor, dies at 59 1995 John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies 1995 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59 1994 Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56 1994 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72 1994 Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72 1994 Tom Ewell, S Yewell Tompkins, U.S. actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85 1993 Charles Lamont, actor and director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95 1993 Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60 1993 Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82 1993 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76 1992 Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60 1992 Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75 1992 Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87 1991 Jacques Benoit, JJM Bayer, poet, dies 1991 Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93 1990 Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101 1989 Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37 1988 Alan Bible, Senator-D-Nevada, 1954 - 1974, dies at 78 1988 Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71 1987 John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies 1986 Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75 1986 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92 1982 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89 1980 Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 1978 Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69 1977 Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60) 1977 Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody 1973 Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77 1973 Marjorie Post, U.S. philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86 1972 William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77 1971 Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63 1963 Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63 1955 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86 1953 Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73 1947 Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89 1936 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70 1934 Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies 1927 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61 1919 Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist and writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48 1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright 1894 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68 1879 Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49 1878 Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83 1877 Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64 1876 Henry A. Wise, American Statesman 1875 Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher 1871 Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43 1836 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835, dies at 34 1824 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62 1819 Gebhard Leberecht Furst von Blucher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76 1815 Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63 1813 Edmund Randolph, American Lawyer 1812 Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle 1807 Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71 1806 Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58 1789 Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79 1764 Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80 1739 Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor and composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65 1733 Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64 1732 Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58 1691 Johan Georg III, monarch of Saxon (1680-91), dies at 44 1683 Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40 1674 Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80 1661 Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53 1660 Jacob Cats, Father Cats, pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82 1647 Joos Banckert, Swiss Admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48 1642 Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed 1604 Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29 1591 Richard Grenville, Vice-Admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49 1500 Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57 1362 Innocent VI, Etienne Aubert, Pope (1352-62), dies 1213 Pedro II, el Catolico, king of Aragon, dies in battle 1015 Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65 1012 Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies 352 Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies
