2004 Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85 2003 Nina Simone, singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 2001 "Jack Haley, Jr", documentary producer, That's Entertainment!, dies at 67 2001 Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician 2000 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet 1999 Buddy Rogers, actor, Wings, dies at 94 1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies 1997 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies 1996 Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies 1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52 1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76 1996 Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76 1996 Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 1994 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39 1992 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 1992 Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal 1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 1991 Richard Bolling, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader, dies at 74 1990 Erte, art deco stylist, dies at 97 1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies 1989 James Kirkwood, actor and writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 1987 Edith S. Green, Representative-D-Oregon, dies at 77 1985 Rudi Gernreich, U.S. designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 1985 Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 1985 Irving Mills, American Musician 1982 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 1978 Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 1973 Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 1971 Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 1971 Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64 1971 Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman 1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt 1967 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1965 Edward Appleton, English Scientist 1962 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies 1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright 1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 1946 John Maynard Keynes, English Economist 1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 1938 Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet 1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 1930 Robert Bridges, English Poet 1924 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 1924 Marie Corelli, English Writer 1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress 1918 "Red Baron", Manfred von Richtofen, shot down in WW I at 25 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator 1910 Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 1871 Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies 1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 1736 Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72 1731 Daniel Defoe, English Journalist 1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate', dies at 59 1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 1552 Peter Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German astronomer, dies at 50 1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 1142 Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62 1109 Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies 1073 Alexander II, Anselmo da Baggio, Pope (1061-73), dies
