2001 Eileen Heckart, actress, Butterflies Are Free, dies at 82 2000 Jose Greco, flamenco dancer, Ship of Fools, dies at 82 Alan Cranston, Senator-D-California, 1969 - 1993 Kenneth Lee Pike, American Sociologist 1999 Elliot Richardson, honest U.S. attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79 1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 Floyd Cramer, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, dies of lung cancer at age 64 Lillian Billie Dove Bohney, actress, dies at 96 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39 1996 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist, dies at 55 David Sinclair, actor (Love and Hate), dies at 62 Frederico Davia, opera singer, dies at 63 Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88 Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner, dies at 85 1995 Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75 1994 BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79 Harri Webb, journalist, nationalist, poet, dies at 74 Leigh Bowery, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood, dies at 33 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83 Thomas J Watson, Jr., CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at 79 Woodrow "Woody" Strode, U.S. rugby player/black cowboy actor (Oil), dies Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante), dies at 80 1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80 Thomas J Watson, Jr., president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 1990 Dalton Cathey, dies of AIDS at 44 George Allen, U.S. football coach of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins, dies Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62 1987 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60 1986 Lester Albert Trimble, composer, dies at 63 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54 1985 Rick Nelson, singer and actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 45 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84 1983 Frank Link, actor (Burns and Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46 1981 Frantisek Chaun, composer, dies at 60 1980 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69 Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88 1977 Nora Marlowe, actress, dies at 62 1975 Donal Michalsky, composer, dies at 47 1972 Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 1971 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 1969 Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer and actor (Full of Life), dies at 69 1968 Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16 Sabin V Dragoi, composer, dies at 74 1966 Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native Amer actor (Pony Soldier), dies at 75 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies 1963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies 1960 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees die Upright), dies at 69 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at 70 1958 Gustav Hermann Unger, composer, dies at 72 1954 Peter Van Anrooy, conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75 1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 1951 Maxim M Litvinov, Meyer H Wallach, Russian diplomat, dies at 75 Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 1950 Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80 1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63 1947 Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 1946 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor, dies at 89 1945 Donald Douglas II, dies at 40 1941 Sigwart Aspestrand, composer, dies at 85 1938 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70 1936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator 1921 Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (A het), dies at 78 1920 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43 1916 Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76 1907 Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63 1899 Karl Millocker, Austrian conductor and composer (Try-out Kiss), dies at 57 1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 1893 Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74 1889 Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52 1882 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 1877 Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64 JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58 Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1874 Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies 1872 Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 1862 James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29 Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1859 Luigi Ricci, composer, dies at 54 1848 Oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69 1818 Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77 1809 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75 1802 Francis Lewis, Welsh / U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 89 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer, dies at 53 1775 Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British 1733 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 1719 John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 1659 Janos Apaczai Csere, Hungarian theologist (Magyar Logikacska), dies at 34 1652 Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies 1647 Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies 1616 Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31 1583 Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies 1384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan 439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 406 Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle 192 Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31