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December 31, 2001 Eileen Heckart, actress, Butterflies Are Free, dies at 82 December 31, 2000 Jose Greco, flamenco dancer, Ship of Fools, dies at 82 December 31, 2000 Alan Cranston, American Politician December 31, 1999 Elliot Richardson, honest US attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79 December 31, 1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 December 31, 1997 Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at 64 December 31, 1997 Lillian Billie Dove Bohney, actress, dies at 96 December 31, 1997 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39 December 31, 1996 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year December 31, 1996 Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist, dies at 55 December 31, 1996 David Sinclair, actor (Love and Hate), dies at 62 December 31, 1996 Frederico Davia, opera singer, dies at 63 December 31, 1996 Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88 December 31, 1996 Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner, dies at 85 December 31, 1995 Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies December 31, 1995 John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75 December 31, 1994 BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79 December 31, 1994 Harri Webb, poet, dies at 74 December 31, 1994 Leigh Bowery, designer, dies at 33 December 31, 1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83 December 31, 1994 Thomas J Watson Jr, CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at 79 December 31, 1994 Woodrow "Woody" Strode, U.S. rugby player/black cowboy actor (Oil), dies December 31, 1994 Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante), dies at 80 December 31, 1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85 December 31, 1993 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80 December 31, 1993 Thomas J Watson Jr, president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79 December 31, 1993 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 December 31, 1990 Dalton Cathey, dies of AIDS at 44 December 31, 1990 George Allen, U.S. football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies December 31, 1990 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62 December 31, 1987 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60 December 31, 1986 Lester Albert Trimble, composer, dies at 63 December 31, 1986 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54 December 31, 1985 Rick Nelson, singer and actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 45 December 31, 1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84 December 31, 1983 Frank Link, actor (Burns and Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46 December 31, 1981 Frantisek Chaun, composer, dies at 60 December 31, 1980 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69 December 31, 1980 Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88 December 31, 1977 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov and JJ), dies at 62 December 31, 1975 Donal Michalsky, composer, dies at 47 December 31, 1972 Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 December 31, 1971 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 December 31, 1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 December 31, 1969 Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer and actor (Full of Life), dies at 69 December 31, 1968 Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 December 31, 1968 George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16 December 31, 1968 Sabin V Dragoi, composer, dies at 74 December 31, 1966 Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native Amer actor (Pony Soldier), dies at 75 December 31, 1966 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies December 31, 1963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies December 31, 1960 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees die Upright), dies at 69 December 31, 1960 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at 70 December 31, 1958 Gustav Hermann Unger, composer, dies at 72 December 31, 1954 Peter Van Anrooy, conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75 December 31, 1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 December 31, 1951 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75 December 31, 1951 Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 December 31, 1950 Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83 December 31, 1950 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80 December 31, 1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63 December 31, 1947 Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 December 31, 1946 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor, dies at 89 December 31, 1945 Donald Douglas II, dies at 40 December 31, 1941 Sigwart Aspestrand, composer, dies at 85 December 31, 1938 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70 December 31, 1936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72 December 31, 1936 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72 December 31, 1936 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator December 31, 1921 Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (A het), dies at 78 December 31, 1920 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43 December 31, 1916 Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76 December 31, 1907 Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63 December 31, 1899 Karl Millocker, Austrian conductor and composer (Try-out Kiss), dies at 57 December 31, 1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 December 31, 1893 Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74 December 31, 1889 Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52 December 31, 1882 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 December 31, 1877 Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64 December 31, 1877 JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58 December 31, 1872 Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 December 31, 1862 James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 29 December 31, 1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 31 December 31, 1859 Luigi Ricci, composer, dies at 54 December 31, 1848 Oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69 December 31, 1818 Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77 December 31, 1809 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75 December 31, 1802 Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89 December 31, 1802 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer, dies at 53 December 31, 1775 Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British December 31, 1733 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 December 31, 1719 John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 December 31, 1659 Janos Apaczai Csere, Hung theologist (Magyar Logikacska), dies at 34 December 31, 1652 Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies December 31, 1647 Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies December 31, 1616 Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31 December 31, 1583 Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies December 31, 1384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies December 31, 1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan December 31, 439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 December 31, 406 Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle December 31, 192 Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 |