Monday, September 06, 2010
1998 - Akira Kurosawa (director, Rashomon, dies at 88)
1939 - Arthur Rackham (artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71)
1986 - Blanche Sweet (U.S. actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90)
1995 - Buster Mathis (heavyweight boxer, dies at 52)
1903 - Charles Ammi Cutter (U.S. bibliographer, dies at 66)
1994 - Duccio Tessari (Italian director, dies of cancer at 67)
1984 - E J Andre (actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74)
1748 - Edmund Gibson (English Judge)
1959 - Edmund Gwenn (actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83)
1984 - Ernest Tubb (singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70)
1649 - Famiano Strada (Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77)
1956 - Felix Borowski (composer, dies at 84)
1902 - Frederick A Able (English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75)
1819 - Georg Druschetzky (composer, dies at 74)
1948 - Gerrit H Kersten (vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66)
1932 - Gilbert Parker (British Politician)
1977 - Guido Pannain (composer, dies at 85)
1962 - Hanns Eisler (composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64)
1966 - Hendrik F Verwoerd (South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64)
1937 - Henry Kimball Hadley (composer, dies at 65)
1941 - Hugo Loudon (president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81)
1994 - James Clavell (author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69)
1701 - James II [Stuart] (king of England (1685-88), dies at 68)
1978 - Jan Berger (Dutch politician, dies at 59)
1985 - Jane Frazee (singer and actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia)
1960 - Jimmy Savo (comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65)
1995 - Joanne Gail Abbott (exec (MTV), dies at 36)
1831 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank (composer, dies at 49)
1945 - John S Mccain (U.S. admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies)
972 - John XIII Crescentii (pope (965-72), dies)
1985 - Johnny Desmond (singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65)
1952 - Jose Forns y Cuadras (composer, dies at 54)
1981 - Joseph Yasser (composer, dies at 88)
1993 - Josephine Rich Corday (vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79)
1811 - Julien-Amable Mathieu (composer, dies at 77)
1968 - Karl Ranki (composer, dies at 69)
1959 - Kay Kendall (British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32)
1965 - Konstantin Mostras (composer, dies at 79)
1985 - Leon Orthel (composer, dies at 79)
1919 - Lord Charles Beresford (British Politician)
1863 - Lucius March Walker (Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33)
1966 - Luigi Perrachio (composer, dies at 83)
1966 - Margaret Sanger (U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86)
1963 - Margarita Sierra (actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26)
1981 - Maria Palmer (actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies)
1994 - Max Kaminsky (trumpeter, dies at 85)
1994 - Nicky Hopkins (rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50)
1974 - Olga Baclanova (actress (Freaks, Docks of New York), dies at 75)
1974 - Otto Kruger (actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday)
1977 - Paul Burkhard (composer, dies at 65)
1947 - Paul Guthnick (German astronomer, dies at 76)
1902 - Philip James Bailey (English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86)
1997 - Philippe Rossillon (administrator, dies at 66)
1975 - Rien van Nunen (Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62)
1944 - Robert Lejour (Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered)
1979 - Ronald Binge (composer, dies at 69)
1990 - T Issan Dorsey (founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies)
1990 - Tom Fogerty (rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48)
1973 - William H Harris (composer, dies at 90)
1996 - William James Moyce (armaments scientist, dies at 82)
1994 - Wolf Donner (Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55)
1919 - Worm Pander (sculptor)