2004 Mercedes McCambridge, actress, The Exorcist, dies at 85 1999 Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 1996 Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61 1995 Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77 1995 Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48 1994 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80 1994 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70 1993 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 1993 Paul D Zimmerman, U.S. screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies 1991 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies 1991 Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62 1988 John Clellon Holmes, American Writer 1987 Randolph Scott, actor (Ft. Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89 1986 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56 1986 Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered 1985 John B Kelly, Jr., chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57 1985 Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's 1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 1982 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53 1982 Philip K. Dick, American Writer 1981 Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30 1979 Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71 1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75 1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1975 Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65 1974 Barbara Ruick, actress and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41 1973 Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated 1972 Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 1971 Charles W. Engelhard, U.S. silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54 1967 Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81 1962 Charles-Jean baron de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at 96 1959 Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70 1959 Yrlo Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67 1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 1945 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist 1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79 1939 Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73 1930 David H Lawrence, poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 1916 Elisabeth OL, Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania, dies at 72 1901 George Mercer Dawson, Canadian Scientist 1895 Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54 1895 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64 1895 John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer 1895 Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1887 August W. Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47 1887 Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63 1882 Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70 1878 Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician 1868 Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81 1867 French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50 1862 Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 1855 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 1840 Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets and asteroids), dies at 81 1822 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40 1800 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86 1797 Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 1787 Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 1772 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73 1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78 1619 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44 1383 Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies 1333 Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies 1127 Charles, the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered 1122 Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies 986 Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44
