2003 Stanley Fafara, kid actor, Leave It to Beaver, dies at 53 1997 Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59 1996 Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82 1996 Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1996 Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87 1996 Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83 1996 Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84 1995 Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87 1994 Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77 1994 Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88 1993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64 1993 Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65 1990 Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65 1988 Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54 1987 Michael Stewart, 1984 Steve Goodman, folk singer and guitarist, dies at 36 1979 Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83 1976 Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83 1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 1974 Carlyle Blackwell, Jr., entertainer, dies at 61 1974 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88 1973 Ben[jamin F] Webster, U.S. tenor saxophonist, dies 1973 Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 1973 Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30 1971 James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59 1971 William F Albright, U.S. archaeologist, dies at 80 1971 Yorgos Seferis, Seferiadis, Greek diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies 1968 Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57 1967 Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88 1960 Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67 1960 Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74 1959 Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63 1957 Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91 1949 Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45 1949 Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56 1947 Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies 1947 Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician 1944 John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem 1933 Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies 1932 Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63 1927 George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62 1917 Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17 1908 Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64 1898 Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 1897 Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59 1896 Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76 1886 John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77 1873 Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies 1865 William H Revere, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1863 Benjamin Hardin Helm, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 33 1863 Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78 1839 Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay, 1816 - 1839, dies at 74 1823 Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 1810 Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28 1807 Charles G van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, wife of F Louisa W, dies 1806 Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies 1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed 1773 Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63 1731 Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67 1706 Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79 1703 Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52 1679 Cornelis Evertsen the Young, Vice-Admiral of Zealand, dies at 51 1648 Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61 1647 Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70 1639 John Meursius, van Meurs, historian, dies at 60 1624 Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66 1613 Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies 1586 Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24 1493 Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies 1384 Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne 1168 Paschal III, Guido di Crema, Italian anti-Pope, dies