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30 Mary Wesley novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn
27 George Roy Hill , film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting )
26 Herb Ritts , celebrity photographer
26 Armand Zildjian , cymbals manufacturer
25 William T. Orr, television executive (brought Maverick , F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV)
24 Tomas Henriquez, Venezuelan actor
23 Joe Strummer , former singer for The Clash .
22 Kenneth Tobey , prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High , Gunfight at OK Corral , The Thing From Another World and Airplane! )
22 Desmond Hoyte , President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992
19 Tony Barr, actor and TV executive
19 Asif Ramzi, Pakistani militant wanted for the murder of reporter Daniel Pearl , blew himself up while making explosives.
18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn , former Governor-General of Canada
17 Hank Luisetti , basketball star and innovator
13 Zal Yanofsky member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.
12 Dee Brown , author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee )
10 Ian MacNaughton, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus .
9 Stan Rice , painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
6 Charles Rosen , Pioneer in artificial intelligence
6 Father Philip Berrigan , priest, political activist
5 Roone Arledge , creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline dies at age 71
5 Ne Win , Burmese dictator
3 Glenn Quinn , actor
29 Florence Stephenson Mahoney, 103, health advocate
26 Verne Winchell , founder of Winchell's Donuts and nicknamed "The Donut King"
25 Rosa Carrillo, Univision news anchor
24 John Rawls , political theorist
21 Hadda Brooks , 86, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer
19 Prince Alexandre de Merode , International Olympic Committee member
18 James Coburn , 74, actor
17 Pedro Cabrera, Cuban actor and director who was a star in Puerto Rico 's television for many years.
17 Abba Eban , 88, Israeli foreign affair minister
17 Milivi Adams , young cancer victim who became the symbol of the fight of many Vieques citizens to have the military out of there.
15 Myra Hindley , the Moors murderess
15 Eddie Bracken , 82, actor
9 Merlin Santana , 26, actor
7 Rudolf Augstein , founder and chief orialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel
6 Sid Sackson , board game designer
3 Jonathan Harris , TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space
3 Lonnie Donegan , 71, skiffle musician
2 Charles Sheffield , science fiction author and physicist
2 Brian Behan, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan
2 Tonio Selwart , 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer
31 Yuri Ahronovitch, Russian conductor
30 Jam Master Jay , DJ of Run DMC assassinated
29 Chang-Lin Tien , educator , 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
28 Margaret Booth , 104, Academy Award-winning film or
25 Richard Harris , 72, (Hodgkin's disease), Actor
25 Paul Wellstone , United States Senator
24 Winton M. Blount last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet
24 Harry Hay , US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder
24 Adolph Green , 87, American lyricist and playwright
22 Richard Helms , former CIA director
20 Barbara Berjer , soap opera actress for over thirty years
19 Michelle Parma , 27, actress
19 Manuel Alvarez Bravo , 100, pre-eminent Mexican photographer
18 Roman Tam , canto-pop singer
17 Derek Bell , Member of The Chieftans , harpist
13 Stephen Ambrose , historian and author of "Band of Brothers"
10 Christine Stevens, founder of the Animal Welfare Institute
6 Claus von Amsberg , diplomat and husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .
4 Alphonse Chapanis , a founder of ergonomics
3 Bruce Paltrow , television and film producer who married the actress Blythe Danner and their daughter is the actress Gwynneth Paltrow.
2 Heinz von Foerster , physicist and philosopher , one of the founders of constructivism
1 Walter Annenberg , publisher and philanthropist
?? Bison Dele , Basketball star in the NBA .
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22 Joseph Nathan Kane (aged 103), pre-eminent American historical author and factualist
22 Jan de Hartog , novelist and playwright
21 Angelo Buono, Jr. , the "Hillside Strangler "
21 Robert L. Forward , physicist and science fiction author
19 Sergei Bodrov Jr. , Russian movie star
18 Bob Hayes , National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member.
12 Kim Hunter , 79, (heart attack), stage and film actress who appeared as June in "A Matter of Life and Death" and as Stella Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
11 Johnny Unitas , National Football League Hall of fame quarterback.
8 Alfonso Ramirez Famous Mexican Bullfighter
7 John P. Frank Lawyer whose representation of Ernesto Miranda in 1966 helped create the Miranda Rights reading requirement.
4 Frankie Albert, National Football League star
1 Brandon Hall, American College football University of Minnesota defensive lineman
31 Lionel Hampton , 94, jazz musician
27 Richard Ricci , Utah , Handyman , suspected of the kidnapping of 14 year old Elizabeth Smart
25 Dorothy Hewett , Australian poet , playwright and novelist
24 Wayne Simmons, American Football Ex Lions NFL player
24 Hoyt Wilhelm , Baseball Hall of Fame member
19 Abu Nidal , terrorist
19 Sunday Silence , thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes
15 Jesse Brown , former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
14 Larry Rivers , American painter
14 Dave Williams , singer of Drowning Pool
12 Enos Slaughter , baseball Hall of Famer
10 Doris Wishman , cult movie director
6 Edsger Dijkstra , computer scientist
5 Josh Ryan Evans , Actor, played Timmy on Passions
5 Chick Hearn , television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960
3 Carmen Silvera , 80, (lung cancer), UK television and theatre actress. Played Fiona Gray in Dad's Army , Captain Manwaring's secret love, and h in Allo Allo
3 (approx date) Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman child- murder victims
23 Leo McKern , 82, Australian actor best known for playing Rumpole of the Bailey and one of the Number Twos in The Prisoner
23 William Pierce , rocket scientist, neo-Nazi , author of "The Turner Diaries "
23 Chaim Potok , author
22 Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem
19 Alexander Ginzburg , leading Soviet dissident (alternatively Aleksandr Ginzburg )
19 Alan Lomax , documenter of blues and folk songs
16 John Cocke , key figure in the development of RISC architecture
16 Jack Olsen, "True crime" writer
14 Joaquín Balaguer , former President of the Dominican Republic
13 Yousuf Karsh , 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa"
10 John Wallach, journalist
9 Rod Steiger , 77, (kidney failure), actor
9 Laurence Janifer , Science Fiction writer
8 Gethin Rhys Williams, Actor, "Rownd a Rownd"
8 Anthony Swithin, fantasy writer, paleontologist
8 Ward Kimball , Disney animator
6 - Dhirubhai Ambani , Indian Businessman (b. 1932 )
6 John Frankenheimer , 74, film director
5 Ted Williams , Baseball Hall of Fame member
5 Katy Jurado , 68, Mexican actress who was once married to Ernest Borgnine
4 Winnifred Van Tongerloo, oldest living survivor of the Titanic
4 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. , African-American General
29 Rosemary Clooney , 74, singer
28 Arthur "Spud" Melin, responsible for marketing hula-hoop and frisbee.
27 John Entwistle , 57, (heart attack), bassist for The Who
26 Jay Berwanger , college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy
24 Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk
24 Pierre Werner , former Prime Minister of Luxembourg , "father of the Euro "
23 Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar , Panama boxer died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before
22 Esther Pauline Friedman , author of the Ann Landers column
22 Darryl Kile , Major League Baseball player, age 33
18 Jack Buck , Major League Baseball announcer
17 Fritz Walter , football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.
17 Willie Davenport , Olympic Games champion
14 Jose Bonilla boxing former world champion, of asthma
14 June Jordan , 65, American writer and teacher, of breast cancer
12 Bill Blass , fashion designer.
10 John Gotti , imprisoned mobster.
11 Robbin Crosby , guitarist of rock band Ratt .
6 Hans Janmaat , controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands .
5 Dee Dee Ramone , founding member of The Ramones
4 Fernando Belaúnde Terry , democratic president of Peru , 1963 a href="1968.html" title="1968">1968 and 1980 a href="1985.html" title="1985">1985.
1 Hansie Cronje , 32, (air crash), South African cricketer
26 Mamo Wolde , Ethiopian marathon runner
23 Sam Snead , golfer
22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001 ), Chandra Levy , U.S. Congressional intern
21 Niki de Saint Phalle , French artist
20 Stephen Jay Gould , paleontologist and popular science author
19 John Gorton , 19th Prime Minister of Australia
17 Joe Black, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd, noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950s.
16 Alec Campbell , Australia 's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103.
13 Ruth Cracknell , redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
11 Joseph Bonanno , Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family.
7 Seattle Slew , last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
6 Pim Fortuyn , Dutch politician, intellectual and sociologist murdered by Volkert van der Graaf with political motives, was likely to become new Dutch Prime Minister.
5 Hugo Banzer Suárez , president of Bolivia , as dictator 1971 a href="1978.html" title="1978">1978 and democratic president 1997 a href="2001.html" title="2001">2001.
3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, current president of Somaliland and former prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland .
3 Mohan Singh Oberoi (aged 103), Indian hotelier and retailer
28 Alexander Lebed , Russian general and politician
Ruth Handler , inventor of the Barbie doll
27 Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , Industrialist and art collector
25 Lisa Lopes , Singer with band TLC
25 Indra Devi (aged 102), "Yoga teacher to the stars"
23 Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace , 53, porn star turned political activist who was killed in a car crash
19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley , Singer with band Alice In Chains
18 Thor Heyerdahl , 87, Norwegian anthropologist
16 Franz Krienbühl , Swiss speed skater
16 Robert Urich , 55, Actor cancer
15 Byron White , US athlete and Supreme Court justice
8 Maria Felix , superstar Mexican actress
9 Leopold Vietoris (aged 110), Austrian mathematician
7 John Agar , 82, actor in monster movies who was once married to Shirley Temple
5 Layne Staley , Singer with band Alice In Chains
31 Barry Took , 73, UK comedian and writer, also wrote in the US
30 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ,101, the Queen Mother, member of the British Royal Family.
27 Milton Berle , 93, Mr. Television, US comedian
27 Dudley Moore , 66, (brain disease), UK actor and writer
25 Kenneth Wolstenholme , 81, British football commentator
20 Ivan Novikoff ,102, Russian premier ballet master
18 Maude Farris-Luse ,115, Oldest Recognized Person in the World
11 Rudolf Hell ,100, German inventor and manufacturer
28 Mary Stuart , soap opera actress best known for her 35-year starring role on Search for Tomorrow
27 Spike Milligan , 83, UK comedian, writer and actor
24 Leo Ornstein , 109, radical composer/pianist
22 Sir Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist
22 Chuck Jones , US animator
21 John Thaw , 60, (cancer), British actor, most famous for the detective series,Morse and The Sweeney .
19 Virginia Hamilton , Black Indian writer
15 Mike Daar Baseball San Diego Padres prospect
15 Howard K. Smith , TV journalist
15 Kevin Smith (actor) , played Ares on Xena series
12 Theresa Ferber Bernstein, 111, artist
11 Barry Foster , 62, (heart attack), British actor.
9 Princess Margaret , 71, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II )
8 Joachim Hoffmann , German historian
7 Elisa Bridges , Playboy model
6 Max Perutz , founder of molecular biology
28 Dick 'Night Train' Lane American Football , NFL Hall of Famer
28 Astrid Lindgren , Swedish children's book author
23 Robert Nozick , philosopher
22 Peggy Lee , 81, US Singer, Actress
19 Jeff Astle , 59, English footballer
18 Alex Hannum , 78, pro basketball coach
16 Bobo Olson , American boxer
16 Ron Taylor , American actor
13 Ted Demme , film and television director
12 Stanley Unwin , comedian
11 Cyrus Vance , 87, former United States Secretary of State , international peacemaker.
8 Dave Thomas , US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.
7 Jon Lee , British drummer.
3 Freddy Heineken , beer magnate.
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