Death Anniversaries - w/e November 13, 1999
A D Evans
NOVEMBER 7
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, English pioneer of the theory of natural
selection, in Broadstone, Dorset aged 90.
1960 - Alvin Pleasant Carter, US singer (Carter Family), in Mace
Springs, Virginia aged 68.
1962 (6.15pm) - Eleanor Roosevelt, US humanitarian and widow of
President F D Roosevelt, at 55 East 74th Street, New York City aged 80.
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish biochemist (Nobel chemistry
1929), in Stockholm, Sweden aged 91.
1974 - Eric Linklater, Scottish novelist, in Aberdeen, Scotland aged 75.
1978 - Gene Tunney, US boxer, in Greenwich, Connecticut aged 81.
1980 - Steve McQueen, US actor, from a heart attack following cancer
surgery in Juarez, Mexico aged 50.
1990 - Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, at his home in Sommieres,
France aged 78.
1990 - Tom Clancy, Irish folk singer (Clancy Brothers), from stomach
cancer at Mercy Hospital, Cork, Ireland aged 67.
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Czech statesman, following a car accident, in
Prague, Czechoslovakia aged 70.
1998 - Henry Hunt (Lord Hunt), English mountaineer (leader of the
expedition which conquered Everest in 1953), from a heart ailment at his
home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire aged 88.
NOVEMBER 8
1226 - Louis VIII of France (Louis the Lion), King 1223-1226, in
Montpensier, Auvergne, France aged 39.
1308 - John Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher and theologian, in
Cologne, Germany aged about 43.
1674 - John Milton, English poet, from gout aged 65.
1793 - Madame Roland de la Platiere, French writer and revolutionary,
guillotined in Paris, France aged 39.
1828 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver, in Gateshead, Co Durham
aged 75.
1871 - Charles Francis Hall, US explorer, in Thank God Harbour,
Greenland aged about 50.
1886 - Fred Archer, English jockey, committed suicide by shooting
himself with a revolver during a period of depression at his home
Falmouth House in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire aged 29.
1890 - Cesar Franck, French composer, from pleurisy (possibly resulting
from being hit by a streetcar some months earlier) in Paris, France aged
67.
1893 - Francis Parkman, US historian, in Boston, Massachusetts aged 70.
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, King 1929-1933, assassinated
aged about 53.
1953 - Ivan Bunin, Russian author (Nobel literature 1933), in Paris,
France aged 83.
1968 - Wendell Corey, US actor, from a liver ailment in Los Angeles,
California aged 54.
1977 - Ted Ray, English comedian, at North Middlesex Hospital, London
aged 71.
1978 - Norman Rockwell, US illustrator, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
aged 84.
1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician, in Moscow, Russia aged
96.
1998 - Rumer Godden, English novelist and poet, at a nursing home near
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland aged 90.
NOVEMBER 9
1911 - Howard Pyle, US illustrator and writer, in Florence, Italy aged
58.
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet who coined the term
"surrealist", from influenza in Paris, France aged 38.
1937 - Ramsey MacDonald, British prime minister 1924 & 1929-1935, died
mid-Atlantic during a voyage to South America aged 71.
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister 1937-1940, in High
Field Park, Hickfield, near Reading, Berkshire aged 71.
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born US composer and conductor, in New
York City aged 64.
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, Russian chemist and first President of Israel
1949-1952, in Rehovot, Israel aged 77.
1953 - Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia 1932-1953, in at-Taif, Saudi
Arabia aged about 73.
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, probably due to chronic alcoholism in
New York City aged 39.
1965 - Clarence Williams, US jazz composer and pianist, in New York City
aged 67.
1967 - Charles Bickford, US actor, from emphysema in Los Angeles,
California aged 78.
1970 (7.30pm) - Charles De Gaulle, French President 1944-1946 &
1959-1969, in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, France aged 79.
1976 - Gottfried Von Cramm, German tennis player, following a car
accident near Cairo, Egypt aged 69.
1991 - Yves Montand, Italian-born French actor and singer, from a heart
attack after suffering a stroke in Senlis, France aged 70.
1993 - Stanley Myers, English composer (wrote "Cavatina" which was used
notably in "The Deer Hunter"), in London aged 63.
NOVEMBER 10
1549 - Paul III, Pope 1534-1549, in Rome, Italy aged 81.
1793 - Jean Marie Roland de la Platiere, French statesman, committed
suicide two days after the execution of his wife (see above) in Bourg-
Beaudoin, France aged 59.
1843 - John Trumbull, US painter, in New York City aged 77.
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, from cancer in hospital in
Marseilles, France aged 37.
1938 - Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey 1923-1938, in Istanbul, Turkey
aged 57.
1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, from a lung ailment in Paris,
France aged 92.
1982 (8.30am) - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader 1964-1982, in Moscow,
Russia aged 75.
1986 - Sir Gordon Richards, English jockey, in Kintbury, Berkshire aged
82.
1987 - Seyni Kountche, President of Niger 1974-1987, while undergoing
surgery in hospital in Paris, France aged about 56.
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist, hanged for promotion
of Ogoni nationalism in Port Harcourt, Nigeria aged 54.
1996 - Marjorie Proops, British newspaper agony aunt, aged 85.
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (Keeping Up Appearances), from
cancer at her home in Brockley, London aged 62.
NOVEMBER 11
1855 - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and theologian, in
Copenhagen, Denmark aged 42.
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, hanged in the jail at
Melbourne, Australia aged 25.
1926 - Sir William Augustus Tilden, English chemist, in London aged 84.
1945 - Jerome Kern, US popular songwriter, in New York City aged 60.
1948 - Fred Niblo, US film director, from pneumonia in New Orleans,
Louisiana aged 74.
1956 - Victor Young, US popular songwriter/composer, from pneumonia in
Palm Springs, California aged 56.
1971 - Sir A P Herbert, English writer, in London aged 81.
1972 - Berry Oakley, US bass player with The Allman Brothers Band,
killed when his motorcycle collided with a bus in Macon, Georgia aged
24.
1973 - Artturi Virtanen, Finnish biochemist (Nobel chemistry 1945), in
Helsinki, Finland aged 78.
1976 - Alexander Calder, US artist, in New York City aged 78.
1977 - Dennis Wheatley, English novelist, in London aged 80.
1979 - Dmitri Tiomkin, Russian-born film composer, from cardiac arrest
in London aged 85.
1997 - Rod Milburn, US hurdler, killed in a workplace accident (he had
apparently falled into a liquid chemical tank at a Georgia Pacific paper
plant) in Port Hudson, Louisiana aged 47.
1998 - Paddy (Patrick) Clancy, Irish folk singer (Clancy Brothers), from
cancer at his home in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, Ireland aged 76.
NOVEMBER 12
1035 - Cnut (Canute), King of England & Denmark 1014-1035 and of Norway
1030-1035, in Shaftesbury, Dorset aged about 40.
1671 - 3rd Baron Fairfax, English Civil War general, in Nunappleton,
Yorkshire aged 59.
1813 - Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, French-born US essayist and
farmer, in Sarcelles, France aged 78.
1865 - Mrs (Elizabeth) Gaskell, English novelist, in Holybourne, Alton,
Hampshire aged 55.
1916 - Percival Lowell, US astronomer, in Flagstaff, Arizona aged 61.
1947 - Baroness Orczy, Hungarian-born British novelist (The Scarlet
Pimpernel), in London, England aged 82.
1969 - Liu Shaoqi, Chinese political leader, in Kaifeng, Honan Province,
China aged about 71.
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Hungarian-born US pianist and composer, from a
brain haemorrhage in Los Angeles, California aged 92.
1976 - Walter Piston, US composer, in Belmont, Massachusetts aged 82.
1989 - Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionara), Spanish writer and politician,
aged 93.
1990 - Eve Arden, US actress, from heart failure and cancer at her home
in Beverly Hills, California aged 82.
1993 - Anna Sten, Russian-born actress, from cardiac arrest at home in
Manhattan, New York City aged 84.
1995 - Jackie Mann, British hostage in Lebanon from 1989 to 1991, from
heart and lung problems aged 81.
1995 - Sir Robert Stephens, English actor, following a liver and kidney
transplant in hospital in London aged 64.
NOVEMBER 13
1093 - Malcolm III (Canmore) of Scotland, King 1057-1093, killed at
Alnwick, Northumberland aged about 62.
1460 - Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, in Vila do Infante,
Portugal aged 66.
1770 - George Grenville, British prime minister 1763-1765, in Bolton
Street, Piccadilly, London aged 58.
1861 - Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, from malaria in Florence, Italy
aged 42.
1868 - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer, in Passy, near
Paris, France aged 76.
1903 - Camille Pissarro, West Indian-born French Impressionist painter,
in Paris, France aged 73.
1928 - Enrico Cecchetti, Italian dancer and choreographer, in Milan,
Italy aged 78.
1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, in Paris, France aged
77.
1973 - Bruno Maderna, Italian composer, in Darmstadt, Germany aged 53.
1974 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian film director, following surgery for
lung cancer in Paris, France aged 72.
1975 - R C Sherriff, English playwright and screenwriter, in London,
England aged 79.
1982 - Chesney Allen, English comedian, in Midhurst, Sussex aged 88.
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian-born US composer, in Gerzensee, near
Berne, Switzerland aged 82.
1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (Olympic 200m breaststroke 1984),
after being struck by a car following an altercation outside a bar aged
25.
1998 - Valerie Hobson, English actress, from a heart attack in hospital
in London aged 81.
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Andrew Evans