2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91 2003 Edwin Starr, American Musician 2001 William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89 1998 Rob Pilatus, lip-syncher, Milli Vanilli, dies at 32 1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, film maker and producer, Godzilla, dies of a stroke at 86 1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 1995 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 1995 Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57 1994 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79 1993 Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93 1993 Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86 1992 Paula Kelly, singer and actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72 1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85 1987 Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestral leader (Away We Go), dies at 69 1979 Carroll D. Rosenbloom, Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72 1976 Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74 1974 Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84 1974 Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62 1972 Gil Hodges, manager (New York Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 1972 Franz Halder, German Soldier 1969 Fortunio Bonanova, actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74 1966 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 1965 Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81 1961 August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 1961 Wallingford Riegger, U.S. composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75 1959 Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79 1956 Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82 1956 Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65 1956 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59 1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 1952 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55 1951 Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall 1947 Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies 1944 Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71 1941 Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies 1938 Alice Berend, writer, dies 1937 Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72 1932 Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany 1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1910 Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 1910 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79 1896 Theodore Robinson, American Artist 1892 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79 1891 Albert Pike, American Lawyer 1890 Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70 1876 Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78 1872 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 1865 Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 1865 Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 1852 Theodor Althaus, writer, dies 1831 Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74 1803 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 1784 Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74 1758 Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67 1747 Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63 1705 Johann Lohner, composer, dies at 59 1657 Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 1502 Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon, dies 1416 Ferdinand I, the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52 1118 Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies
