2007 Max Roach, dies in Manhattan, at 83 2004 J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman 2003 Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator, dies at 78 2002 Jeff Corey, actor/teacher, blacklisted actor during the McCarthy era, dies at 88 2001 Floyd Spence, Representative-R-South Carolina 1971 - 2001, died of complications from surgery 1998 Dorothy West, writer, The Wedding, dies at 91 Phil Leeds, actor, Ally McBeal, dies at 82 1997 Gerard McLarnon, actor and writer, dies at 82 1996 Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31 Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72 1995 John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89 John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62 Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36 1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40 Henry Geldzahler, U.S. critic, dies John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73 1993 Irene Sharaff, U.S. costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83 Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies Stewart Granger, actor 'Scaramouche', dies of cancer at 80 Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56 1992 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack 1991 Frederic Mares, Spanish sculptor, dies Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43 Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16 Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer 1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58 1988 Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75 1986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 1984 Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87 1978 Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, dies at 90 1977 Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment and drugs at Graceland at 42 1976 Beppie Nooij, Jr., Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83 1974 Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies 1973 Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85 Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54 1972 John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39 1971 Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78 1969 Russ Bender, actor and writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59 1968 Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71 1966 Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58 1965 Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64 1964 Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68 1959 Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74 William "Bull" F Halsey, U.S. Vice-Admiral (WW II Pacific), dies 1958 Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85 1956 Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73 1951 Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63 1949 Margaret Mitchell, U.S. writer, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 48 1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (New York Yankees), dies in New York at 53 1946 Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism) 1945 Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1944 Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28 1940 Billy Fiske, U.S. RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 1938 Robert Johnson, U.S. Delta-blues singer and guitarist, poisoned at 27 1929 Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70 1920 J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies 1911 Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68 1910 Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69 1900 Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies Jose de Queiros, Portuguese writer (Bullock Maias), dies at 54 1894 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70 1886 Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50 1870 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80 1864 John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 1854 Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies 1831 Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30 1825 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman 1824 Charles Thomson, American Public Servant 1807 Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72 1799 Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61 1786 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80 1748 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63 1738 Joe Miller, English comic, dies 1705 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 1678 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 1675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies 1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1603 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 1532 Johan de Standvastige, monarch of Saxon (Schmalkaldisch), dies 1508 Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Germany viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41 1419 Wenzel/Vaclav IV, Wenceslas, drunken RC German king, dies at 58
