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August 3, 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95 August 3, 2001 Christopher Hewett, actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere, dies at 80 August 3, 1996 Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87 August 3, 1995 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79 August 3, 1995 Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80 August 3, 1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77 August 3, 1995 Jose B. M. Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88 August 3, 1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54 August 3, 1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 August 3, 1994 Christy Henrich, U.S. turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22 August 3, 1994 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69 August 3, 1994 John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74 August 3, 1994 John van Raay, [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders) August 3, 1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76 August 3, 1993 James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl SC August 3, 1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies August 3, 1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79 August 3, 1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 August 3, 1986 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41 August 3, 1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer August 3, 1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered August 3, 1979 Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76 August 3, 1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered August 3, 1977 Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83 August 3, 1977 Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63 August 3, 1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79 August 3, 1974 Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85 August 3, 1973 Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84 August 3, 1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 August 3, 1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39 August 3, 1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 August 3, 1957 "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer August 3, 1954 Colette, [Willy], France, novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81 August 3, 1951 Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies August 3, 1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 August 3, 1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz August 3, 1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz August 3, 1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide August 3, 1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80 August 3, 1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies August 3, 1938 Bartholomeus "Bart" de Ligt, Dutch anti-militaristic vicar, dies at 55 August 3, 1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian 1928 Olympics gold August 3, 1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69 August 3, 1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 August 3, 1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41 August 3, 1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 August 3, 1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies August 3, 1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59 August 3, 1902 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54 August 3, 1894 George Inness, U.S. landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69 August 3, 1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 August 3, 1886 Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62 August 3, 1884 Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacre-Coeur, Paris), dies at 71 August 3, 1877 Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75 August 3, 1857 Eugene Sue, French Novelist August 3, 1835 Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67 August 3, 1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies August 3, 1825 Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72 August 3, 1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 August 3, 1811 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49 August 3, 1805 Christopher Anstey, English Poet August 3, 1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies August 3, 1800 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63 August 3, 1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America, dies at 80 August 3, 1797 Lord Amherst, British Soldier August 3, 1784 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78 August 3, 1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64 August 3, 1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27 August 3, 1716 Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56 August 3, 1667 Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect August 3, 1531 Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37 August 3, 1530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies August 3, 1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies August 3, 808 P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China |