2007 Brett Somers, dies in Westport, Connecticut, at 83 2001 Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90 1996 Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76 1996 George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80 1996 Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88 1996 Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85 1996 Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70 1995 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83 1995 Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72 1995 Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63 1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81 1994 Helena Manson, Venezuela/French actress (Nude in a White Car), dies at 94 1994 Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48 1993 Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72 1993 Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82 1992 Walter B. Jones, Representative-D-North Carolina 1966 - 1992, dies at 79 1991 Allan Sobek, dancer, dies 1991 Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83 1991 John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87 1990 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies 1990 Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60 1989 Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist 1987 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75 1986 Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69 1983 LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88 1983 Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49 1983 Beverley Nichols, English Writer 1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran 1981 Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83 1980 Bill Evans, U.S. jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51 1979 Tommy Leonetti, singer and actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50 1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80 1972 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66 1972 Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman 1967 Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78 1967 Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67 1964 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1963 Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69 1956 Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82 1956 Charles Richards, Canadian Politician 1953 Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies 1951 Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56 1950 Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79 1945 Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61 1943 Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2 1942 Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies 1940 Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37 1938 Thomas Wolfe, U.S. writer (Enigma), dies at 62 1937 Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48 1936 Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69 1934 David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61 1932 Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76 1929 Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58 1927 Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 1924 Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66 1923 Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31 1921 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian baron/general, dies 1916 Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82 1914 Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66 1902 Horace Gray, American Judge 1895 Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58 1885 Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31 1883 Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies 1880 William Hauser, composer, dies at 67 1875 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71 1862 R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry 1859 John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72 1842 Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer, dies at 70 1841 Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84 1840 Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47 1750 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59 1747 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59 1654 Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61 1598 Hidejoshi, Hijoshi, Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies 1525 John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake 1231 Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies 928 Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 921 Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies 9 Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
