2006 Steve Irwin, wildlife expert, television personality, 'The Crocodile Hunter', wildlife documentary series, dies in Batt Reef, Australia, of a stingray barb 1997 Belle Stewart, Scottish traditional singer, dies at 91 1997 Jeffrey Bernard, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine, dies in Soho, England, after refusing dialysis treatment 1995 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45 1995 Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90 1995 John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42 1995 William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78 1995 William Kunstler, American Activist 1994 Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66 1994 Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64 1993 Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies 1993 Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50 1993 Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered 1992 John van Dreelen, Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg, actor (Topaz), dies 1991 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77 1991 Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car 1991 Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies 1991 Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65 1990 Henry Faas, Wandelganger, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies 1990 Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91 1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86 1985 George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85 1985 Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93 1981 Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59 1980 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 1979 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76 1975 Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60 1974 Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 1974 Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75 1970 James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39 1965 Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 1964 W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71 1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 1960 Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71 1946 Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79 1944 Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1938 Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73 1937 Giovanni Salviucci, composer, dies at 29 1922 Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74 1918 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) 1914 Charles Peguy, French Philosopher 1913 Henry Billings Brown, American Judge 1907 Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64 1907 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64 1905 Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1903 Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53 1853 Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71 1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82 1828 Cornelis Stevens, Belgian RC foreman/polemist, dies at 80 1784 Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies 1759 Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80 1709 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies 1644 John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87 1571 Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered 1553 Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake 1154 Gilbert de la Porree, French philosopher/bishop of Poiters, dies 1085 Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies 454 Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies 422 Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies
