2002 Mickey Newbury, singer, member, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, wrote songs for Acuff-Rose Music, dies 1998 Tom Bradley, mayor, first black mayor of LA, dies at 80 1997 Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97 1997 Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55 1997 Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73 1996 Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison/Silence), dies at 73 1996 Ethel Jane Cain, original U.K. Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87 1996 Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>> 1995 Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84 1995 George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90 1995 Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89 1995 Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91 1995 Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51 1994 Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26 1994 Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46 1994 John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68 1994 Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered 1993 Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60 1993 Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85 1992 Paul Jabara, singer and actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44 1991 Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies 1991 Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered 1991 Zapata Jaw, Nelson Renfrum, Surinamese musician, dies 1989 A A Busch, Jr., brewer/baseball owner for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 90 1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76 1987 Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70 1986 Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 1984 Marnix Gijsen, Jan-Al Goris, writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85 1981 Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete 1978 John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65 1977 Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78 1975 Casey Stengel, New York Yankee manager 1949 - 1960, dies in Glendale at 85 1974 John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72 1973 W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies 1973 W. H. Auden, English Poet 1970 Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84 1967 Carson McCullers, U.S. author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50 1967 Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67 1966 Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer (Motion), dies at 75 1964 Robert Burton, actor (Dr. Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69 1962 Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx 1961 Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63 1959 Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies 1959 Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49 1958 Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65 1951 Bradley Barker, dies 1950 Balthazar H Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer, dies 1941 Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 1939 Dickstein, mathematician, dies 1937 Ray Ewry, jumper, 10 Gold Medals 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908 Olympics, dies at 63 1935 Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1933 Margaret Talmadge, dies 1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66 1928 Arnold Kent, dies 1928 Lido Manetti, dies 1928 Steinitz, mathematician, dies 1927 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67 1925 E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36 1925 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74 1918 Eduard earl van Keyserling, German writer (Fruhlingsopfer), dies at 63 1915 Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95 1915 Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28 1914 Jean Bouin, French marathoner, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies in battle 1913 Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55 1910 Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies 1908 Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69 1904 Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies 1902 Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies 1902 Emile Zola, writer, dies at 62 1895 Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies 1890 Alphonse Karr, French Critic 1864 Hiram Burnham, U.S. Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle 1862 William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38 1833 Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies 1800 Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71 1800 William Billings, U.S. composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53 1619 John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried 1598 Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61 1575 Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45 1560 Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies 1530 Andrea del Sato, d'Agnolo di Franceszo, Italian painter, dies at 44 855 Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
