2000 Vincent Canby, critic, dies at 76 1996 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 1995 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69 1994 Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29 Jean Daste, French actor (Zero de Conduite, L'Atalante), dies at 90 Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48 Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60 Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 1993 Ken E. Jones, musician ,New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, dies of AIDS at 34 1992 Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1991 Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies 1990 Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58 Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72 1987 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies 1985 Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72 1983 Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 1982 Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies 1981 Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies Justin Jud Strunk, Jr., comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48 1977 Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77 1976 Carlo Gambino, U.S. gangster, dies at 74 1969 Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered 1968 Bea Benaderet, New York City, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57 1965 Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 1964 Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73 1963 Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies 1960 Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70 Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70 Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84 1958 John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72 John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61 1955 Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41 1949 Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged 1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at age 53 1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 1944 Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942 Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed 1937 James Marcus, actor (Clockwork Orange), dies at 60 1934 Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1915 Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Kufer, German writer (Tarub), dies at 52 1914 Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69 1910 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed 1900 Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49 1891 Rooney Lee, American Soldier 1883 Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74 1819 F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48 1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies 1690 Juan de Valdes Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor, dies at 68 1682 John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56 1605 Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 1595 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 1539 Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies 1524 Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45 1512 Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72 1389 Urbanus VI, Bartolomeo Prignano, Italian pope (1378-89), dies 1271 Hostiensis, Henricus the Segusia, cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies 1268 Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies 1080 Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies 892 Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
