2005 Robert Badham, Representative-R-California 1977 - 1989 2003 Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, Miss Misery, dies at 34 Fred Berry, comic, Whats Happening, dies at 52 1997 Dolph Camilli, Brooklyn Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90 1996 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71 Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76 George Houston, land economist, dies at 74 Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49 Wang Li, politician, dies at 78 1995 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58 Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79 Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28 1994 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85 Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79 1993 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58 Irving Torgoff, U.S. baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75 Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40 Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94 Scott Heiser, U.S. photographer (Interview), dies at 44 1992 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey Bear, dies of diabetes Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate John F. Kennedy assassination), dies at 70 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94 1987 Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88 1984 Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78 Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52 1983 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies 1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83 1977 Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash 1973 Arabi El Goni, Vice President/Chad parliament, murdered 1971 Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Olympic-bronze-48), dies at 48 Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84 1970 John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 1969 Jack Kerouac, U.S. writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47 1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94 1966 Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95 1965 Bill Black, musician, rocker, bassist for Elvis Pressley, dies at 39 Marie McDonald, singer and actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42 1963 George B Cressey, U.S. geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66 1961 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies 1943 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies 1937 Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried 1931 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian Playwright 1924 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76 1919 Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77 1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated 1908 Charles Eliot Norton, American Writer 1906 [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55 1905 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69 1897 Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50 1886 Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the Martin Fierro), dies 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 1863 Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55 1861 Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50 John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies 1856 Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76 1831 Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged at 31 1810 Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52 1805 Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54 Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1798 Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71 1793 Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 1773 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 1765 Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 1708 Christian Weise, German writer (That Bose Catherine), dies 1687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies 1662 Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66 1650 Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet and writer, dies 1637 Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 1629 Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle 1627 Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56 1561 Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49 1558 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74 1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1439 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 1422 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
