2000 Carl T. Rowan, syndicated journalist, dies at 75 1998 Mary Frann, actress, Newhart, dies at 55 1997 Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72 Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78 Murray Burnett, writer, Everybody Goes to Rick's - later filmed as Casablanca, dies at 86 1996 Denis Dowling, baritone, dies at 86 Stuart Pigott, archaeologist, dies at 86 1995 Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81 Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74 1994 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80 Ali Kouider Benyahia, sheik Boualem, Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26 Cherif Gousmi, kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed, Alger Moslem leader, shot Georgi, Czar Nicholas II's brother, buried John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94 Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77 1993 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53 1992 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61 James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100 Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer Paul E Garber, 1st curator (National Air and Space Museum), dies at 93 James Van Fleet, American Soldier 1991 Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies 1988 Arwel Hughes, composer, choral and orchestral music conductor, composer, organist, studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at Royal College of Music, known for large-scale oratorios Saint David and Pantycelyn, dies at 79 1987 Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62 O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 1985 Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72 1984 Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer, dies at 87 1982 Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68 1981 Chief Dan George, actor (Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82 1979 Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75 1978 Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79 Lyman Bostock, professional baseball player, outfielder, Minnesota Twins and California Angels Major League Baseball teams, dies in Gary, Indiana, at age 27, murdered by Leonard Smith 1975 Ian Hunter, actor and writer (Rockets Galore, Ziegfield Girl), dies at 75 1974 Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68 Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24 1973 A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89 Manuel Borguno, composer, dies at 87 Pablo Neruda, N R R Basoalto, poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69 1972 Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63 1971 Billy Gilbert, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio), dies at 77 1961 Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg and I), dies at 71 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65 1960 Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72 1956 Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75 1947 Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged 1944 Colijn, Netherlands PM, buried 1939 Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83 1930 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62 1929 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64 1906 Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies 1904 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56 1902 John Wesley Powell, U.S. geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68 1896 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer, dies at 89 1889 William W. Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies Eliza Cook, English Poet Wilkie Collins, English Novelist 1877 Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies 1871 Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45 1870 Prosper Merimee, French playwright (Carmen), dies at 66 1847 Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65) 1837 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33 1797 Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57 1780 John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1778 Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83 1738 Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch Scientist 1700 Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer, dies at 59 1694 Francesco Passarini, composer, dies at 57 1624 Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32 1571 John Jewel, English Clergyman 1541 Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47 965 Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered 918 Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42 775 Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies
