2004 Katharina Dalton, doctor/writer, coined the phrase pre-menstrual syndrome, PMS, dies at 88 2002 Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84 1999 Frankie Vaughan, singer/actor, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, dies at 71 1997 Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway 1989 - 1990, dies 1997 John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100 1997 Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84 1997 Red Skelton, comic, dies at 84 1996 Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63 1996 Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician 1995 Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87 1995 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71 1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46 1994 John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55 1994 Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92 1994 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47 1994 Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher 1993 Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80 1992 Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87 1992 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 1989 Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide 1986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62 1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident 1984 Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70 1983 Humberto Madeiros, U.S. cardinal to Boston, dies at 67 1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay 1980 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 1979 Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71 1973 Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63 1972 Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72 1966 Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35 1961 Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62 1961 Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68 1960 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81 1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39 1958 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70 1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 1957 John W. "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81 1956 Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, dies at 42 1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80 1953 Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91 1948 Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated 1948 Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 1948 Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies 1944 ... Kussin, German General-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle 1934 Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79 1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70 1916 Seth Low, American Educator 1908 Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash 1907 Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60 1895 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies 1892 Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies 1884 Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56 1879 Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-Duc, gothic archetect, dies 1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77 1869 Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies 1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies 1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies 1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies 1863 Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies 1863 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet 1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41 1862 William Edwin Starke, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 48 1858 Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies 1846 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84 1839 Ethel Mary Dell, Mrs G T Savage, romantic novelist, dies 1824 Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76 1820 Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 1803 Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies 1771 Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50 1762 Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74 1732 Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40 1702 Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71 1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish gen/Governor of Netherlands, dies at 50 1665 Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies 1652 Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 1604 Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69 1575 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Clergyman 1574 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies 1322 Robrecht III, of Bethune, Count of Flanders, dies 1312 Ferdinand V, king of Castilie/Leon, dies at 26 1179 Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
