2002 Robert Forward, writer, Dragon's Egg, dies at 70 1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic runner, dies at 38 1996 Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90 1996 Sabine Zlatin, nurse, dies at 89 1996 Henri Nouwen, Dutch Clergyman 1995 Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86 1995 Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94 1995 Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64 1995 William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83 1994 Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies 1994 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69 1993 Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96 1993 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Netherlands actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34 1992 Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor 1992 Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies 1991 Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83 1991 Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83 1991 JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies 1988 Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies 1988 Henry Koster, director, dies 1988 Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85 1987 Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies 1986 Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 1981 Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68 1981 Tony Aubin, composer, dies at 73 1980 Ernest White, composer, dies at 80 1979 John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73 1976 Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies 1974 Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53 1974 Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80 1973 Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39 1973 William CF Plomer, South Africa libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69 1972 Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 1970 Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies 1966 Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies 1964 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop 1961 Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68 1961 Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81 1959 Abraham Flexner, American Educator 1957 Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies 1956 Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez 1956 Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53 1953 Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75 1952 Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62 1947 Harry Carey Sr, actor and director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69 1946 Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66 1945 Robert Benchley, American Comedian 1939 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered 1937 Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72 1936 Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1915 Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in New York City 1911 Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab], Egyptian minister, dies 1908 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), dies 1905 Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64 1904 Chief Joseph, U.S. indian chief (Nez Perces), dies 1883 Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 1874 JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher 1839 Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60 1836 John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86 1832 Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies 1820 Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25) 1812 Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61 1809 Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53 1798 George Read, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 65 1705 Willem Hadriaan of Nassau, corrupt mister of Odijck, dies 1629 John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/Governor-General of East-Indies, dies at 42 1590 Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45 1586 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69 1576 Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 1558 Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58 1520 Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies 1519 Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49 1481 Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies 1440 Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68 1433 Zweder van Kuilenberg, bishop of Utrecht 1327 Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43 687 Conon, Sicilian Pope (686-87), dies
