2003 Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter, Werewolves of London, dies at 57 2002 Katrin Cartlidge, actress, Naked, dies at 41 2001 Billie Lou Watt, voice, Kimba the White Lion, dies at 71 1997 Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72 Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65 Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66 1996 Niccolo Castiglioni, composer, dies at 64 1995 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51 1994 Dennis Morgan, Stanley, U.S. actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83 Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79 Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita), dies at 71 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79 1992 Henry Ephron, U.S. screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81 Indra Kamadjojo, Broekveld, Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79 1991 Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87 Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults), dies of cancer at 58 John Crosby, U.S. columnist/detective writer dies at 79 John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies 1990 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies 1986 Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83 1985 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1984 Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77 1983 Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90 1978 Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31 1977 Gustave Reese, composer, dies at 77 1973 Hans Lorbeer, writer, dies at 72 1972 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81 1971 Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84 1969 Everett Dirksen, Senator-R-Illinois 1951 - 1969, dies at 73 1966 Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67 1965 Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62 1962 Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77 Isak Dinesen, Danish Writer 1961 Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76 1960 Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84 1956 Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84 1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1951 Maria Montez, actress, 'Arabian Nights', 'Sudan', dies at 31 1949 Elton Mayo, Australian Psychologist 1948 Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman, dies at 80 1944 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70 1940 Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies 1933 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies 1925 John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52 Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies 1917 Paul Meyer, French Writer 1914 Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73 1909 Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft 1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies Richard de Bury, English Writer 1902 Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70 1892 John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet 1881 Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39 Sidney Lanier, American Poet 1872 Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21 1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies 1845 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1838 Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43 1833 Hannah More, English Writer 1820 Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 1819 Jean-Louis Duport, composer, dies at 69 1809 Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author, dies at 46 Karoline Schelling, writer, dies 1799 John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68 1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies 1775 Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, dies at 48 1721 Bernhard Albinus, Weiss, German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies 1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1625 Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64 1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38 1134 Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies