2004 Elmer Bernstein, composer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, dies at 82 1998 Persis Khambatta, actress, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, dies at 47 1996 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 1996 Hugo Gryn, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue, dies at 66 1996 Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St. Paul's, dies at 68 1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 1994 Gottlob Frick, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, dies at 88 1994 Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies 1994 John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 1994 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56 1994 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79 1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies 1992 John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 1990 B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86 1990 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies 1989 Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest 1989 Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered 1988 Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42 1988 Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83 1982 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo and Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87 1981 Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 1980 Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65 1977 Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1969 Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48 1969 Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68 1969 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 1968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52 1966 Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80 1966 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75 1962 Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68 1961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of U.S. court of Appeals, dies at 89 1961 Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78 1957 Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41 1952 Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43 1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered 1949 Paul J Mares, U.S. jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 1944 Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 87 1944 Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies 1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1942 Erwin Schulhoff, Czechoslovakian/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48 1940 Walter Chrysler, American Inventor 1934 Delilah L Beasley, U.S. author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61 1922 William Henry Hudson, British Author 1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (New York World), dies in battle at 36 1915 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Rubab-i Sjikeste), dies at 47 1907 John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 1901 Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54 1896 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88 1894 William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57 1870 Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1870 John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1863 Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39 1853 Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73 1850 H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51 1850 Honore de Balzac, French Novelist 1840 Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 1811 Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78 1803 James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67 1765 Frans I Stefanus, RC German emperor (1745-65), dies at 56 1652 Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 1559 Paul IV, Giampietro Caraffa, Pope (1555-59), dies at 83 1503 Alexander VI, Rodrigo de Borja, Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies 1276 Adrian V, Ottobono Fieschi, Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies 1236 Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies 1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
