2002 Abe Lemons, American Coach 2001 Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78 2001 Troy Donahue, actor, A Summer Place, dies at 65 2000 Curt Siodmak, screenplay writer, The Wolf Man, dies at 98 2000 Elvera Davis, tap dancer, dies at 95 2000 Jean Speegle Howard, actress, Cocoon, dies at 73 1998 Allen Drury, author/journalist, Advise and Consent, dies at 80 1998 Dr. Jonathan Mann, AIDS expert, dies at 51 1998 Mary-Lou Clements-Mann, AIDS expert, dies at 51 1997 Rudolf Bing, opera manager (New York Met Opera), dies at 95 1997 Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92 1997 Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian Psychologist 1996 Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69 1996 Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86 1996 Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71 1996 Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96 1995 Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74 1994 Detlef Macha, East Germany cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35 1994 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82 1994 Mildred Mcafee Horton, U.S. 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies 1994 Richard M Major, U.S. anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72 1994 Roy Castle, singer, musician, jazz trumpet player, television celebrity, starred in BBC's 'The Roy Castle Show', dies at age 62 in Buckinghamshire, England 1993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80 1993 John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66 1992 Barbara McClintock, U.S., geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90 1992 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies 1991 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies 1991 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian International soccer judge, dies 1989 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51 1985 Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64 1982 Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78 1982 Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad), dies of a drug OD at 42 1980 William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70 1979 Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90 1973 John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist 1970 Allan Walker, actor and writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64 1970 Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63 1969 Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41 1968 Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 1965 Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48 1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70 1964 Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67 1961 Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54 1957 William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90 1955 Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60 1944 George W. Norris, U.S. senator (lame duck-amendement), dies 1937 Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies 1937 Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74 1934 Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, U.S. singer/violist, dies at 26 1922 Henry Lawson, Australian Writer 1921 Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet 1915 August Stramm, writer, dies at 41 1914 Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed 1911 Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1910 Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies 1910 Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1906 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies 1905 Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79 1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire 1891 Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76 1877 Alvin Adams, American Businessman 1870 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48 1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician 1862 Thornton F Brodhead, U.S. lawyer/politician/Brigadier-General, dies at 40 1790 Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies 1779 Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66 1715 Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, dies at 87 1698 Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried 1645 lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded 1606 Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58 1566 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37 1547 Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians 1418 Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/Governor of Burgundy, dies 1384 Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies 421 Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse, dies at about 51
