2008 Paul Newman, dies of lung cancer, at 83 2000 Richard Mulligan, actor, Empty Nest, dies at 67 1998 Betty Carter, American Musician 1996 Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria 1996 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75 1996 George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74 1996 Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34 1995 Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86 1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77 1994 Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87 1994 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22 1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 1992 Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85 1991 Miles Davis, American Musician 1990 Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome 1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87 1983 Tino Rossi, French singer, dies 1979 Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68 1979 John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91 1979 Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53 1975 Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Sloret Sandhed), dies at 79 1973 Anna Magnani, Italians actress (Roma, Citt Aperta), dies at 64 1973 Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81 1972 Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82 1971 Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68 1966 Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62 1964 Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79 1964 Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82 1961 Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81 1961 Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67 1961 Charles Erwin Wilson, American Businessman 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 1958 Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64 1956 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78 1952 George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88 1947 Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61 1946 William Strunk, Jr., American Writer 1945 Bela V J Bartok, Hungarian pianist/composer dies at 64 1945 R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78 1944 Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64 1940 Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48 1940 W. H. Davies, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', dies 1937 Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43 1936 Harriet Monroe, U.S. poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75 1935 Andy Adams, U.S. writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76 1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies 1904 Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54 1871 Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 1866 Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72 1863 Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies 1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 1808 Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51 1788 Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63 1657 Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48 1626 Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71 1614 Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies 1371 Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies 1345 Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27 1342 John I, ruler of Poland, dies 1023 Godfried I, duke of Netherlands-Lutherans, dies
