2003 Hume Cronyn, actor, Cocoon, dies at 91 1996 Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78 Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85 Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77 1995 Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95 1994 David Lawson, executed in North Carolina (wanted execution shown on Donahue) Kristen Pfaff, U.S. bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24 Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68 Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70 1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76 Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (New York Yankees), dies at 73 Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies 1989 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63 Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 1987 Walter W. Heller, U.S. economist (Old Myths and New Realities), dies at 71 1984 Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82 Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78 1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, U.S., alto saxophonist, dies at 56 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90 1979 Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67 1978 Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83 1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies 1968 Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48 1967 Edward Eagan, boxer, bobsledder, Gold Medal 1920, 1932 Olympics, dies at 69 1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84 1958 Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74 1952 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70 1942 Vera Figner, writer, dies 1938 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58 1934 Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77 1923 Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies 1920 Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55 1907 William Le Baron Jenney, U.S. architect, dies 1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German African explorer and Governor East-Africa, dies 1899 Richard Parks Bland, American Politician 1895 Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72 1893 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer and conductor (Bank Ban), dies at 82 1889 Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39 1888 Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, dies 1875 Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72 1869 Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60 1865 Edmun Ruffin, U.S. secessionist/writer, commits suicide Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61 1858 Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63 1856 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73 1849 James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53 1845 Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60 1844 Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 1839 Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41 1836 Theodore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74 1831 Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78 1828 Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91 1814 Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 1772 Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77 1760 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69 1708 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62 1703 Gillis Schey, Dutch Admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58 1702 Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies 1677 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67 1666 Pieter de Bitter, Dutch Admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies 1580 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70 1557 Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies 1467 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70 1397 Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity 1389 Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle 1383 Johannes Cantacuzenus, Byzantium emperor(1341 - 1354) and monk, dies at 90 1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1341 Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies 1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies 1246 Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25 991 Theophano, German Empress/wife of Emperor Otto II, dies 948 Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies 923 Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
