2003 Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66 2002 Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95 Dudley Moore, actor, Arthur, dies at 66 Milton Berle, comedian, 'The Milton Berle Show', dies at 93 2000 Ian Dury, rocker, the Blockheads, dies at 57 1998 David F. Powers, American Politician Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies 1995 Albert Drach, writer, dies Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67 Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70 1994 Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69 1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88 Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74 1992 Anita Colby, U.S. model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89 Gerry Duggan, dies at 82 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies 1991 Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 1989 May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies 1988 Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67 1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1986 Cass Canfield, U.S. publisher, dies at 88 1983 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75 Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76 1982 Joris Noe, Flemish literary, dies at 68 1979 Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82 1978 Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73 1977 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41 Eve Meyer, actress and pin-up model, dies in a plane crash at 46 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89 1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63 1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72 1972 Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist 1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 1967 Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49 1966 Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82 1961 Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37 1959 Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1953 Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76 1948 Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64 1946 Gabriela Preissova, writer, dies 1945 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42 1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash 1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 1931 Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies 1929 ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies 1928 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64 1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83 1923 James Dewar, Scottish Scientist 1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63 1920 Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 1918 Henry B. Adams, Historian 1910 Alexander E Agassiz, U.S. businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74 David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72 1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 1894 Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49 1889 Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64 John Bright, British Politician 1886 Henry Taylor, English Dramatist 1878 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44 George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies 1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72 1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 1826 Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63 1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73 1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60 1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72 1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39 1714 Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 1679 Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38 1668 Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36 1625 James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58 King James I, Royalty 1482 Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25 1472 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37 1378 Gregory XI, Pierre R the Beaufort, last French Pope (1370-78), dies 1211 Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56 965 Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies 922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64