1999 Kirk Alyn, actor, Superman in the serials, dies at 88 1997 John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1996 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69 1995 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73 Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70 William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57 1992 C V Wood, Jr., theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71 Jean Poiret, French actor and writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65 Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork and Mindy), dies at 67 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34 1991 Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 Doc Pomus, lyricist 'Save Last Dance for Me', dies at 65 Robert Maroff, dies at 57 1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62 Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96 1986 Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81 Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74 Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80 1984 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 1983 Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55 1982 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59 1981 Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? 1976 Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79 Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80 Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies 1975 Susan Hayward, actress (Young and Willing), dies at 56 1973 Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 1969 Ben Shahn, U.S. painter, dies at 70 Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist 1968 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies 1961 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78 1958 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64 1954 Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72 1953 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 1944 Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66 1932 George Eastman, U.S. industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77 1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 1903 Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88 1899 Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76 1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58 1811 August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63 1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58 1760 Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 1757 John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 1682 Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53 1647 Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63 1612 Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74 1590 Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30 1573 Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered Admiral Coligny, dies 1559 Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed 1490 Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21 1298 Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies 1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 840 Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
