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January 4, 2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author January 4, 2003 Conrad Hall, American Artist January 4, 1999 Iron Eyes Cody, actor, dies at 94 January 4, 1998 John Gary, singer, dies at 65 January 4, 1998 Mae Questel, actress, voice of Betty Boop, dies at 89 January 4, 1997 Harry B. Helmsley, businessman, Helmsley hotels, dies at 88 January 4, 1996 Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83 January 4, 1996 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83 January 4, 1995 D Elmina Davies, filmmaker, dies at 36 January 4, 1995 Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80 January 4, 1995 Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52 January 4, 1995 Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist, dies at 43 January 4, 1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter (BBC Empire Orch), dies at 92 January 4, 1995 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82 January 4, 1995 Morrie Schwartz, American Educator January 4, 1994 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48 January 4, 1994 Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Gov of Curaeao (1951-67), dies at 80 January 4, 1993 Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies January 4, 1993 Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69 January 4, 1992 Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies January 4, 1992 William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74 January 4, 1991 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 January 4, 1991 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94 January 4, 1991 Leo N Wright, U.S. saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57 January 4, 1990 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies January 4, 1990 Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57 January 4, 1987 F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79 January 4, 1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 January 4, 1986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81 January 4, 1986 Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34 January 4, 1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English lt-general (A Full Life), dies at 89 January 4, 1979 Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack January 4, 1978 Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76 January 4, 1976 Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84 January 4, 1975 Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72 January 4, 1974 Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70 January 4, 1972 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57 January 4, 1971 Norman Cota, American Soldier January 4, 1969 Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer, dies at 83 January 4, 1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 January 4, 1968 Francis Biddle, American Lawyer January 4, 1967 Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water January 4, 1965 T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76 January 4, 1965 T. 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Eliot, English Poet January 4, 1964 Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64 January 4, 1963 Robert Hamer, British Director January 4, 1961 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72 January 4, 1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 January 4, 1960 Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter January 4, 1958 Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75 January 4, 1957 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84 January 4, 1956 Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91 January 4, 1955 Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80 January 4, 1955 Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81 January 4, 1955 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84 January 4, 1953 Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78 January 4, 1952 Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65 January 4, 1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 January 4, 1946 Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67 January 4, 1946 Gifford Pinchot, American Politician January 4, 1944 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder January 4, 1944 Kaj Munk, [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies January 4, 1944 Alfred E. Smith, American Politician January 4, 1944 Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician January 4, 1942 Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70 January 4, 1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 January 4, 1940 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 January 4, 1933 Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87 January 4, 1931 Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at 40 January 4, 1920 Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Gloria), dies at 76 January 4, 1914 Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66 January 4, 1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 January 4, 1913 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general-field marshal, dies at 79 January 4, 1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies January 4, 1908 Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70 January 4, 1903 Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49 January 4, 1898 Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73 January 4, 1894 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist January 4, 1891 Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies January 4, 1890 Catherine Booth, American Activist January 4, 1886 Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77 January 4, 1885 Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29 January 4, 1883 Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91 January 4, 1880 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies January 4, 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt, U.S. robber baron, dies at 82 January 4, 1864 Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75 January 4, 1843 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80 January 4, 1833 Richard Heber, English Celebrity January 4, 1831 Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 January 4, 1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73 January 4, 1821 Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland January 4, 1809 Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67 January 4, 1806 Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman January 4, 1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies January 4, 1799 Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40 January 4, 1793 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35 January 4, 1786 Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 January 4, 1782 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83 January 4, 1778 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57 January 4, 1765 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39 January 4, 1761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 January 4, 1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 January 4, 1745 Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62 January 4, 1729 Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French lt-general, dies at 77 January 4, 1729 Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies January 4, 1707 Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies January 4, 1701 Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austria, field marshal, dies at 62 January 4, 1695 Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies January 4, 1678 Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch gov-general of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71 January 4, 1612 Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62 January 4, 1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44 January 4, 1582 Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint January 4, 1582 Saint Teresa, Spanish Saint January 4, 838 Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred |