2007 Joel Siegel, died in New York, of color cancer complications, at 63 2003 Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor, The Music Man, dies at 78 Katharine Hepburn, actress, 'A Lion in Winter', dies at 96 2002 Rosemary Clooney, singer/actress, White Christmas, dies at 74 2000 Vittorio Gassman, actor, dies at 77 1999 Allan Carr, "Producer, manager", Grease, dies at 62 1997 William Hickey, actor, Prizzi's Honor, dies of emphysema at 68 1996 Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85 Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54 Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78 1995 Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75 Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84 1994 Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76 Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85 1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies 1990 Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74 1986 Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies John P. East, Senator-R-North Carolina, dies at 55 Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47 1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies Henry King, director, dies at 86 1981 Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered 1979 Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34 1978 Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59 1977 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70 1976 Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies 1975 Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone), dies at 79 1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43 Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38 Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35 1970 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77 Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64 1969 Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29 Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67 1968 Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 1967 Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34 Oskar Maria Graf, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels, dies at 72 in New York 1966 Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82 Isabel Dawn, writer, dies Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63 1965 Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64 1964 Milenko Zivkovic, composer, dies at 63 Eric Dolphy, American Musician 1959 A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51 1956 Johan[nes F] Bakker, Jr., actor, dies at 62 1955 Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 1953 Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70 1941 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at 80 1940 Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 1933 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, U.S. actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46 Fatty Arbuckle, American Comedian 1923 Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1911 Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 1903 Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23 1895 Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1880 George W. Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies 1875 Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82 1861 Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet 1860 Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67 1852 Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75 1840 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65 1818 Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22 1798 Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies 1790 Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies 1784 Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge/singer Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 1779 Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51 1744 Andre Campra, French priest/ composer and conductor (Tancrede), dies at 83 1696 Michel Lambert, composer, dies 1620 John Aerts, Flemish sculptor 1458 Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies 1306 Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies 1293 Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies 1021 Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies
