1904 - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1910 - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
1928 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
1932 - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
1936 - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
1944 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1946 - William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
1949 - C V France, dies at 80
1952 - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1959 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 - Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38
1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1973 - Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1974 - Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1975 - Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies
1978 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1986 - Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
1990 - Ronald Ibbs, dies
1992 - Brian Oulton, dies at 84
1992 - Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 - Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
1993 - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
1993 - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 - Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, MandŠl), dies at 56
1994 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994 - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1995 - Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
1996 - Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
1996 - George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
1996 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 - George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
