2004 Marlon Brando, actor, The Godfather, dies at 80 2004 Peter Barnes, English Playwright 2003 Herbie Mann, flutist, dies at 73 2000 Walter Matthau, actor, The Odd Couple movie version, dies at 79 1999 "Forrest Mars, Sr", businessman, Mars candy, dies at 95 1999 Guy Mitchell, singer/actor, My Heart Cries for You, dies at 74 1999 Sylvia Sidney, actress, ", Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, ", dies at 88 1999 William Whitelaw, British Politician 1997 Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies 1997 Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79 1996 Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75 1996 Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41 1996 Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80 1996 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53 1995 Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49 1995 Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57 1994 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies 1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies 1991 Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies 1991 Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54 1990 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48 1990 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies 1989 William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies 1988 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82 1988 Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68 1986 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62 1983 R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 1983 R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor 1982 John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51 1982 Shon Coco Palm, Jacobo JM Palm, Curacan composer, dies 1982 Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86 1981 George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76 1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75 1979 Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64 1978 Kurt Student, German Soldier 1974 Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 1973 Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76 1968 Virginia Weidler, actress (All This and Heaven Too), dies at 42 1965 Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55 1964 Pierre Monteux, French/U.S. conductor, Concert Building Orchestra, dies at 89 1963 Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies 1961 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night', dies in Paris, France, at age 67 1958 Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies 1958 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr. (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78 1958 Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/Germany choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78 1953 Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered 1953 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies 1950 Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77 1950 Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76 1949 Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65 1947 Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80 1944 Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49 1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1939 Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies 1925 Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59 1925 Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61 1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81 1910 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies 1899 Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85 1894 Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 1885 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 1883 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39 1863 John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 1847 George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61 1839 Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53 1805 Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60 1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 74 1784 Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, composer (Sinfonias 64), dies at 73 1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, does at 52 1776 Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War 1774 Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68 1742 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer, dies at 58 1723 Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59 1691 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77 1662 Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 1627 Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 1592 Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist and composer (Responsoria), dies 1589 Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies 1523 Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1523 John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1378 Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies
