2008 Tom Lantos, dies in Bethesda, Maryland, of complications of esophageal cancer, at 80 2003 Thomas Leonard, American Businessman 2000 Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 1997 Don Porter, actor, Gidget, dies at 84 1996 Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1996 Bob Shaw, science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64 1996 Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies 1996 Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies 1996 Phil Regan, actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88 1994 Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23 1994 Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64 1994 William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73 1993 George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71 1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure 1993 Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident 1992 Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60 1991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 1989 George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71 1986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 1986 Frank Herbert, American Writer 1985 Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83 1985 Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86 1985 Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68 1982 Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer 1982 Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76 1982 Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79 1978 James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84 1978 James Bryant Conant, American Scientist 1977 Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74 1976 Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies 1976 Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89 1976 Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64 1976 Lee J. Cobb, American Actor 1974 Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85 1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1972 Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80 1971 Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria 1970 Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87 1969 James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48 1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1967 A. J. Muste, American Activist 1963 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 1961 Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34 1948 Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50 1945 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53 1945 J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme 1944 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies 1941 Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 1940 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), dies 1939 Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64 1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies 1922 Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67 1911 Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66 1907 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 1907 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist 1903 Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67 1901 Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56 1899 George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies 1894 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70 1892 Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63 1882 Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65 1879 Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies 1879 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 1870 Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76 1870 Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66 1868 Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies 1841 J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55 1806 Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51 1797 Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 1762 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71 1685 David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46 1650 Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1622 Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 1554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule 1543 Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle 1503 Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday 1141 Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies 867 Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies 824 Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies 821 Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies 731 Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies 641 Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
