2004 Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 2002 Teresa Graves, actress, Laugh-in, dies at 51 2000 Bruce Vento, Representative-D-Minnesota 1977 - 2000, dies at age 60 2000 Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier 1998 Clark Clifford, lawyer/DC insider, dies at 91 1997 Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52 1996 Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54 1996 Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83 1996 John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79 1996 Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72 1996 Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65 1996 David Viscott, American Psychologist 1995 Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100 1995 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47 1995 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 1995 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64 1994 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 1994 Danny Gatton, U.S. guitarist, commits suicide at 48 1994 Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64 1994 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74 1993 Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 1993 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52 1992 James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 1991 Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford and Sons), dies of heart attack at 68 1991 Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34 1990 Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 1990 Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56 1990 Michael A Salcido, dies at 39 1985 Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 1985 Yul Brynner, Taidje Khan, actor (King and I), dies of cancer at 65 1983 Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80 1980 Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies 1980 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49 1979 Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 1978 Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86 1978 Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86 1976 Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68 1975 Lillian Walker, dies at 88 1974 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73 1973 Albe, Renaut A Joostens, Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71 1973 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist and philosopher dies 1970 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 1970 Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 1968 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 1965 Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63 1964 Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72 1964 Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71 1964 Konrad Bayer, writer, dies 1964 Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 1959 Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies 1942 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 1935 Huey Long, American Politician 1931 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 1920 Hudson Stuck, English Explorer 1914 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73 1914 Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies 1910 Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66 1889 Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75 1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies 1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer, dies at 58 1872 William H. Seward, American Statesman 1867 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60 1864 David Bullock Harris, U.S. Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever 1858 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 1856 Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67 1843 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75 1836 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61 1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 1797 Carter Braxton, U.S. boer/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 61 1791 C F D Schubart, writer, dies 1789 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34 1745 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52 1727 Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61 1720 Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor (Nazarin, Le Notre), dies at 80 1691 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet 1676 Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43 1674 Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman 1659 Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, New Zealand), dies at about 56 1651 Philippus Rovenius, Rouveen, apostole, dies at 77 1616 Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 680 Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded 413 Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 19 Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
