2004 Austin Willis, actor, Cross-Canada Hit Parade, dies at 86 1996 Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68 1996 David Keylsey, actor and director, dies at 63 1996 David Whitton, politician, Labor party, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, dies at 44 1996 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist, dies at 97 1996 Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82 1996 Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83 1996 Seamas NacNeill, piper, dies at 79 1995 Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50 1995 Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67 1995 Priscilla Lane, actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77 1994 Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69 1994 Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress and singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77 1993 Alfred Mosher Butts, U.S. architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93 1993 Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, Rita la Roche, singer, dies 1992 Karl Tunberg, U.S. scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies 1992 Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80 1992 Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59 1991 John Heinz III, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1991, dies in a plane crash at age 52 1991 Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies 1991 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 1990 Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Businessman 1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76 1986 Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87 1983 Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84 1983 Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78 1982 Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer, dies at 50 1981 Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56 1979 Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77 1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51 1978 Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70 1977 Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82 1972 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Representative-D-New York, dies at 63 from acute prostatitis 1972 John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1972 Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus and Elidco), dies at 69 1970 Byron Foulger, actor (Captain Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader 1967 Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76 1963 Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18 1963 Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70 1958 Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78 1956 Fritz Kunkel, German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66 1953 Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59 1953 Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, dies at 93 1944 John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 1944 Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82 1943 Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54 1943 Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66 1941 Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29 1939 Ghazi I, King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident 1938 Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24 1937 Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic, dies at 69 1934 Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80 1932 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59 1932 Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies 1931 Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies 1931 George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76 1930 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies 1929 Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84 1923 L Martov, Joulij O Tsederbaum, Russ revolutionary, dies at 49 1923 John Venn, British Philosopher 1919 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1913 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic 1908 Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64 1905 Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73 1900 Edward VII, King, assassinated 1893 Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86 1889 Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56 1862 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 1844 Charles Bulfinch, 1st U.S. pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80 1841 William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68 1817 Andre Massena Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies 1817 Prince d'Essing, dies 1807 Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies 1806 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84 1784 Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies 1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 1734 Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 1714 Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies 1664 Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies 1662 Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 1662 Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73 1643 Simon Episcopius, Bisschop, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1604 Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies 1588 Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53 1585 Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57 1417 John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies 1406 Robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies 1393 Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies 1292 Nicholas IV, Girolamo Masci, Pope (1288-92), dies 1284 Alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castilie/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62 1229 Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies 896 Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies 397 Ambrosius, Governor of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
