2004 Eugene Roche, actor, Slaughterhouse Five, dies at 77 2004 "Francis Crick, Ph. D", DNA researcher, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at 88 2004 Jackson Beck, voice over actor, Popeye, dies at 92 2002 Don Pease, Representative-D-Ohio 1977 - 1993 2000 Jaime Cardriche, actor/wrestler, Malcolm and Eddie, dies at 32 1997 Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 1997 Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1945 - 1946, 1975, 1976, dies 1996 Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1996 Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86 1996 Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58 1996 Roger Tory Peterson, born in Jamestown, New York, ornithologist/writer 'How to Know Birds', dies at 87 1994 Bernard Delfont, Russian/British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84 1994 Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69 1994 Conrad W. Monnich, theologist (The Away), dies at 79 1994 Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82 1993 Herbert Joeks, van Hugten, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77 1991 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45 1990 Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124 1990 Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82 1990 Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies 1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66 1987 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81 1986 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91 1985 Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54 1984 Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85 1982 George Kleinsinger, U.S. composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68 1980 Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95 1979 George Seaton, American Playwright 1978 Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70 1976 Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62 1976 Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77 1974 Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69 1973 Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80 1972 Heal Traubel, U.S. singer (Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs), dies 1971 Diane Arbus, Nemerov, photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48 1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 70 1969 Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59 1969 Frank H Loesser, U.S. songwriter/composer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 59 1969 Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80 1968 Charles W. Mayo, U.S. surgeon, dies at 70 1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 1965 Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74 1965 Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75 1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83 1945 Margot Asquith, English Author 1940 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66 1939 William J Mayo, U.S. surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78 1939 William J. Mayo, American Scientist 1937 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51 1937 Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies 1934 Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64 1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies 1898 William Pepper, American Scientist 1895 Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72 1872 Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies 1869 Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies 1864 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67 1864 Samuel Benton, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 44 1863 James Deshler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 30 1850 Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71 1849 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies 1842 C Brentano, writer, dies at 63 1838 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62 1833 William Bainbridge, American Soldier 1817 Jane Austen, British Writer 1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies 1802 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72 1794 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined 1794 Robespierre, and 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers 1778 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68 1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65 1746 John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies 1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1723 Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63 1711 Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried 1667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies 1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris 1655 Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36 1655 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76 1641 John Amner, composer, dies at 61 1540 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1330 Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle 1101 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 1057 Victor II, Gebhard, Pope (1055-57), dies 450 Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies