2007 Joey Bishop, dies in Newport Beach, California, at 89 Robert A. Young, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 1987, died from liver disease 2000 Frederick Clarke, writer/publisher, Cinefantastique, dies at 51 Mel Carnahan, American Politician 1998 Joan Hickson, actress, Miss Marple for the BBC, dies at 92 1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54 1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer and conductor, dies at 93 1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66 1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83 Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57 1993 Frank J Del Giudice, U.S. industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84 Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies 1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies 1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84 Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72 1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1984 Alberta Hunter, U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 89 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 1982 Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47 1981 David Guion, composer, dies at 88 1979 John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69 S J Perelman, U.S. humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75 1978 Jean Amery, Johannes Mayer, Austr writer (Mind's Limits), dies at 65 1977 Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, U.S. baseball player/umpire, dies at 77 1975 Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90 1974 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 1967 Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61 1966 Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91 Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 1944 Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45 1941 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies 1940 Florence Scovel Shinn, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore, dies 1933 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist 1921 Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1917 Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies 1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 1904 Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 1897 Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 1890 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 1887 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 1825 Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 1806 Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies 1763 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 1740 Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 1705 Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author 1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies 1638 Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter, buried at about 63 1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 1552 Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 1312 Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies 532 Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
