2005 Constance Baker Motley, American Activist 2003 Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76 Elia Kazan, director, On the Waterfront, dies at 94 2002 Whitney Blake, actress, Hazel, dies at 77 2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman 1996 Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64 1995 Eddy Grove, dies Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77 1994 Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr. No, Nijinski), dies at 78 Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48 Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96 Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England 1993 Alfonso Balcazar, dies Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuela/U.S. advocate, dies in an accident at 35 Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83 1992 Leech, mathematician, dies 1991 Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65 1989 Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72 Ferdinand Marcos, Statesman Ferdinand E. Marcos, Filipino Statesman 1988 Ethel Grandin, silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94 Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83 1987 Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason 1986 Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77 1985 Andre Kertesz, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist, dies 1982 Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday Mabel Albertson, actress (Gazebo, Bewitched), dies of Alzheimer at 81 1979 Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26 1978 John Paul I, Albino Luciano, Pope (1978), dies after 33 days as pope Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died Pope John Paul I, Pope 1975 Agnes Windeck, dies Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott and Costello), dies at 77 1974 Raymond Largay, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), dies at 88 1973 Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71 Norma Crane, actress, 'Fiddler on the Roof', dies of cancer at 44 Wystan H Auden, British/U.S. writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66 1972 Maurice Thiriet, composer, dies at 66 1970 Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52 John Roderigo Dos Passos, U.S. writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74 1968 Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 1966 Andre Breton, French Surrealist poet (Manifest of Surrealism), dies at 70 Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41 Lucky Millinder, bandleader/singer, dies 1965 Eddie Gribbon, actor (Keystone Kops), dies after long illness 1964 George Dyson, composer, dies at 81 Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75 Nacio Herb Brown, dies 1961 Michael Shepley, actor (Dick and the Duchess), dies at 54 1959 Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies 1957 Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer, dies at 67 1955 Arthur Donaldson, dies 1954 Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69 Morten Korch, dies 1953 Edwin P Hubble, astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist 1952 Paul Hastings Allen, composer, dies at 68 1948 EJ Ratcliffe, dies Gregg Toland, cinematographer, dies at 44 1947 Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58 William B Davidson, dies 1946 Jean Van de Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter, dies 1943 Fritzi Brunette, dies 1942 Evelyn Thatcher, dies 1939 Felicjan Szopski, composer, dies at 74 1928 Con Conrad, dies 1922 Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65 1920 Nestor de Tiere, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies 1914 Porsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Malleysingjar), dies at 56 Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58 Richard W. Sears, American Businessman 1911 Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies 1907 Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81 1903 Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67 1902 Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62 1899 Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies 1895 Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72 1891 Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72 1884 Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies 1879 Nathan C. Meeker, U.S., poet and writer, murdered 1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet, dies at 58 1873 Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37 1869 Libri, mathematician, dies 1868 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney and Confederate general-major, shot at 40 1859 Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies 1852 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60 1833 Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88 1819 Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68 1815 Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90 1789 Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 1759 Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67 1757 Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60 1702 Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 1694 Mouton, mathematician, dies 1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 1657 Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 1652 John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 1649 Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79 1618 Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States 1588 - 1618, suicide at 68 1509 Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) 1296 Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies 1197 Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies 1104 Pedro I, king of Navarra and Aragon, dies 929 Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered
