2006 Jeff Cooper, American Celebrity John M. Ford, American Writer John M. Ford, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?', dies of natural causes, at age 49 2005 M. Scott Peck, American Psychologist 2004 Marvin Davis, American Businessman 2003 George Plimpton, writer/adventurer/actor, The Paris Review, dies at 76 Robert Palmer, resistable performer, Addicted to Love, dies at 54 2001 Lani O'Grady, actress, Eight Is Enough, dies at 46 1999 Marion Zimmer Bradley, writer, Darkover series, dies at 69 1997 Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66 1996 Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80 1995 Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102 1994 John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73 Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86 Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88 1991 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77 Max Koot, royal photographer, dies 1988 Billy Carter, President Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51 1987 Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81 Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81 1986 Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99 1985 Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88 1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver), dies at 87 1983 Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies 1980 John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director 1978 Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80 1977 Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78 1975 Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68 1974 Coco the Clown, Nikolai Poliakov, dies William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies 1971 TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50 Hugo Black, American Judge 1970 Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73 Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72 Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer 1961 Frank Fay, actor (God's Gift to Women), dies in Santa Monica CA 1960 Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 1959 Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49 Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk 1958 John B Watson, U.S. psychologist/behaviorist, dies 1954 Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71 1953 Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies 1946 Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52 1945 Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64 Charles A Ellwood, U.S. sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72 1944 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43 1933 Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, dies at 53 1929 Miller Huggins, manager (New York Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49 1920 William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77 1918 John Ireland, Irish/U.S. archbishop of St. Paul, dies at 80 1916 Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44 1914 A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25 Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76 1908 John Churton Collins, English Critic 1876 A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66 1871 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies 1860 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60 1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45 1840 Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier 1813 Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61 1808 Richard Porson, scholar, dies 1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49 1733 Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79 1727 Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73 1716 Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52 1680 Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies 1630 Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61 1619 Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies 1534 Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56 1525 Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26 1506 Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castilie (Spain) (1504-06), dies 1501 Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies 1396 Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle 1392 Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78 1066 Harald III Hardrada, king of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51 813 al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
