2009 Chuck Daly, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics, dies at 78 in Jupiter, Florida 2004 Alan King, comic/producer, Friar's Club roasters, dies at 76 2004 Brenda Fassie, South African Musician 2003 Jack Gelber, American Playwright 2003 Russell B. Long, Senator-D-Louisiana, 1948 - 1987, died from heart failure 2002 Dan Devine, American Coach 1998 Alice Faye, actress/singer, Alexander's Ragtime Band, dies at 83 1995 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68 1995 Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74 1995 Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82 1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 1993 Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98 1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author 1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident 1991 James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 1991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies 1990 Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84 1989 Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 1989 Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82 1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 1986 Dirk de Vroome, Red Giant, Limbourg activist, dies at 60 1986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69 1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies 1981 Nelson Algren, U.S. writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 1979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95 1977 James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55 1977 Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71 1976 Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74 1976 Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 1975 Philip Dorn, dies at 73 1974 Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 1970 Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84 1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies 1968 Finlay Currie, dies at 90 1968 Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 1968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 1968 Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58 1967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies 1967 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35 1966 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56 1966 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies 1965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62 1958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns and Allen), dies at 47 1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies 1957 Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67 1952 Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City at 45 1951 Marie Ault, dies at 80 1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies 1944 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86 1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 1928 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 1926 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies 1905 Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78 1903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies 1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist 1884 Hermanus W. Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 1880 Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54 1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident 1853 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies 1822 Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62 1805 Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45 1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45 1799 Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 1791 Francis Hopkinson, U.S. writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 1785 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44 1770 Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 1760 Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82 1707 Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 1688 Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68 1667 Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) 1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies 1590 Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 1474 Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded 1460 Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies 1443 Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies 1280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 1079 Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered
