2003 David Hemmings, actor/durectir, Blow Up, dies at 62 2002 "William ""Tex"" Henson", animator, Rocky and Bullwinkle, dies at 78 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 1997 David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72 1997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72 1996 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83 1996 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86 1995 Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16 1995 Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated 1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73 1994 Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99 1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66 1994 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78 1994 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63 1993 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68 1993 Frank V Zappa, U.S. music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52 1993 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42 1993 Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90 1993 Frank Zappa, American Musician 1990 Edward Binns, U.S. actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74 1987 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90 1986 Reuben Nakian, U.S. sculptor, dies at 89 1985 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83 1984 John Rock, U.S. co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94 1983 Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55 1980 Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash 1980 Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter 1932 Olympics gold, shot at 69 1979 Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62 1978 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Netherlands/U.S. phycists, dies at 76 1977 Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72 1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63 1976 Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose 1975 Hannah Arendt, German Historian 1974 Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36 1973 Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67 1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies 1969 Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85 1969 Fred Hampton, U.S. Black-Panther leader, murdered 1967 Bert Lahr, Irving Lahrheim, U.S. comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72 1963 Robert Hamer, British Director 1959 Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58 1954 Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies 1953 Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80 1952 Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67 1948 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies 1943 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46 1938 Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54 1935 Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71 1933 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65 1932 Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64 1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61 1923 Maurice Barres, French Politician 1915 Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60 1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 1890 Willem III, Dutch king, buried 1884 Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45 1836 Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79 1807 Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1798 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 1732 John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 1679 Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher 1676 Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39 1649 Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73 1642 Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lueon, dies at about 57 1642 Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman 1603 Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71 1576 Rheticus, mathematician, dies 1514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide 1371 Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38 1371 Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies 1334 John XXII, Jacques Dueze, Pope (316-34), dies 1182 Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies 1137 Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 811 Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39 771 Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20