
1982 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and radio play director (Tomorrow It Will Be Better), dies at 89.1982 Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru), dies at 77.1981 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975), dies at 84.1980 Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65.1979 Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies.
1978 Frank Ferguson, American character actor (Gus Broeberg-My Friend Flicka, Eli Carson-Peyton Place), dies of cancer at 78.1977 Steven Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody at 30.1977 Robert Lowell, American poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60).
#Recent notable deaths pro
1975 Doc Alexander, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (Syracuse All Pro 1921, 22 Rochester Jeffersons NFL C'ship 1925 NY Giants), dies at 78. 1973 Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86. 1973 Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77. 1972 William Boyd, American film actor, cowboy hero (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63 1963 Ben Sealey, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1933), dies. 1961 Carl Hermann, German physicist, dies at 63. 1960 Jules Buffano, American composer and pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 62. 1956 Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian nobleman and politician, dies at 74. 1956 Hans Carossa, German writer, dies at 77. 1955 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86. 1953 Lewis Stone, American actor (The Lost World, Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73. 1953 Hugo Schmeisser, German inventor and weapons designer, dies at 68. 1953 Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies. 1949 Harry Burleigh, African American composer (Springarn Medal), dies at 82. 1947 Harry Rowe Shelley, American hymn composer, dies at 89. 1936 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70. 1934 Catherine Breshkovsky, Babushka/Grandmother of Russian revolution, dies at 90. 1929 Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright, dies at 64. 1927 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61. 1927 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer, dies at 80. 1926 Edmund Jenkins, American clarinetist and composer (Charlestonia Afram), dies at 32. 1923 Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor, dies at 81. 1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian journalist and writer (Red Laugh, Seven Hangs), dies at 48. 1918 George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1917 Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies. 1913 Major R B Stewart, cricketer (scored 4 & 9 in S Afr's 1st Test), dies. 1912 Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon. 1892 Carl Faust, Prussian military musician and composer (Marsch Glück auf - Lucky March), and conductor, dies at 62.
1879 Peter Arnold Heise, Danish composer (Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal)), dies at 49.1878 Friedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83.1877 Julius Reitz, German cellist, composer, teacher, and music editor, dies at 64.Wise, American lawyer and politician (33rd Governor of Virginia), dies at 69 1874 François Guizot, French historian and politician (17th Prime Minister of France), dies at 86.1871 Karl Collan, Finnish composer, dies at 43.
1870 Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (The Hasheesh Eater), dies at 34.