2007 Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76 2002 John Agar, actor, the original The Thing, dies at 81 2001 Beatrice Straight, actress, Network, dies at 82 2001 David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 1998 Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91 1996 Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59 1995 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68 1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85 1994 Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59 1994 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56 1994 Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41 1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 1993 Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45 1992 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72 1992 Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46 1992 Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39 1989 Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123 1988 Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74 1987 Maxine Sullivan, Williams, U.S. actress (Going Places), dies at 75 1984 Frank Church, Senator-D-Ohio 1957 - 1981, dies at 59 1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82 1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36 1979 Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78 1978 Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83 1977 Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered attorney-general 1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76 1975 Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies 1973 Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69 1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party 1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered 1972 Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65 1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Gold Medals 1928, 1932 Olympics, dies at 74 1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies 1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car 1967 Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood 1961 Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74 1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 62 1961 Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61 1960 Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies 1958 Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75 1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58 1958 Elliot Paul, American Journalist 1950 Walter Huston, dies at 66 1947 Henry Ford, U.S. industrialist - Ford cars, dies 1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72 1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston 1933 Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered 1932 Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd 1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53 1891 Phineas T Barnum, U.S. circus promoter (B and Bailey), dies at 88 1891 P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer 1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65 1880 Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58 1877 Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63 1875 Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57 1871 Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old 1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43 1862 Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62 1858 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76 1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57 1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61 1803 [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies 1789 Abdul-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64 1789 Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66 1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52 1768 Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78 1767 Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51 1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81 1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 1668 William Davenant, English Poet 1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown) 1524 Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies 1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27 1444 John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50 924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered 30 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies
