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August 4, 2005 Little Milton, American Musician August 4, 2001 Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64 August 4, 2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist August 4, 1999 Victor Mature, actor, Samson and Delilah, dies at 86 August 4, 1997 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122 August 4, 1996 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59 August 4, 1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87 August 4, 1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies August 4, 1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69 August 4, 1994 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65 August 4, 1994 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85 August 4, 1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies August 4, 1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64 August 4, 1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93 August 4, 1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer August 4, 1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 August 4, 1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56 August 4, 1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65 August 4, 1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack August 4, 1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure August 4, 1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema August 4, 1981 Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 August 4, 1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92 August 4, 1976 Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher August 4, 1975 John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57 August 4, 1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68 August 4, 1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81 August 4, 1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies August 4, 1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73 August 4, 1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 August 4, 1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70 August 4, 1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78 August 4, 1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies August 4, 1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61 August 4, 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75 August 4, 1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies August 4, 1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40 August 4, 1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54 August 4, 1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 August 4, 1904 Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54 August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?) August 4, 1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist August 4, 1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41 August 4, 1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75 August 4, 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 August 4, 1875 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author August 4, 1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59 August 4, 1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68 August 4, 1821 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86 August 4, 1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27 August 4, 1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77 August 4, 1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 August 4, 1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 August 4, 1598 William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 August 4, 1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 August 4, 1578 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle August 4, 1578 Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24 August 4, 1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies August 4, 1526 Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies August 4, 1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded August 4, 1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 August 4, 1306 Vaclav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered August 4, 1265 Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle August 4, 1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered August 4, 1060 Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52 |