2008 Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act, dies 2003 "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed 2002 S. William Green, Representative-R-New York 1978 - 1983 and 1983 - 1993, died of liver cancer 1998 Cleveland Amory, writer, The Compleat Cat, dies at 81 Frankie Yankovic, polka king, dies at 83 1997 Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81 Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbaggers, dies at 81 1996 Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91 William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80 1995 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82 Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83 Ellis Peters, British Author 1994 Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87 1993 Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 1992 John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51 1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72 1989 Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at 30 1988 Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies 1987 Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86 1986 [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, U.S. actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies at 70 1983 Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure 1981 Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74 1977 Bing Crosby, singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74 1976 Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88 1972 Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68 1967 Marcel Ayme, French writer (Lesson contes du chat perche), dies at 65 1966 Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75 1965 Randall Jarrell, American Poet 1960 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies 1959 Errol Flynn, U.S. actor (Captain Blood), dies of heart attack at 50 1958 Jean Poveigh, composer, dies at 82 Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 1957 Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78 1944 Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52 1930 Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies 1923 George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83 Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies 1919 Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies 1909 Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76 1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter/water colors painter, dies at 67 Richard Tangye, British Businessman 1900 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54 1893 Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84 1885 Josh Billings, American Comedian Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist 1880 Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army 1879 F Kurnberger, writer, dies at 58 1877 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68 1872 Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63 1857 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33 1847 William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53 1817 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant 1790 William Hooper, U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 48 1775 Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57 1771 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer, dies at 39 1746 Francois Fagel, lawyer/statesman, dies at 86 1719 Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer, dies at 59 1669 Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46 1660 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 1619 Samuel Daniel, English Poet 1570 Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43 1536 Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle 1092 Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated 1066 Harold II, King of England (1066), dies 530 Dioscurus, anti-Pope (530), dies
