2002 Bruce Paltrow, producer, Saint Elsewhere, dies at 60 2002 Norman O. Brown, American Philosopher 1998 Gene Autry, actor/singing cowboy/businessman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dies at 91 1996 Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 1996 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85 1996 Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89 1996 Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63 1996 Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79 1996 Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93 1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67 1995 Norman Ewart Thurston, musician, dies at 74 1994 Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity and Hope survive), dies at 95 1994 Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie and Harriet), dies of heart failure at 80 1994 Ronald James Herron, architect, dies at 64 1993 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83 1991 Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies 1991 Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies 1989 Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Netherlands 1st female advisor of State, dies 1988 Alec Issigonis, Turkish Businessman 1987 Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81 1987 Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies 1985 George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58 1985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian and Wife), dies of AIDS at 59 1985 Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey), dies at 69 1983 Gerald Strang, Canadian composer, dies at 75 1982 William Bernbach, advertising magnate, dies at 71 1981 Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer/pianist, dies at 63 1980 Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46 1975 Wade Crosby, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), dies at 70 1974 Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89 1973 Paavo Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76 1973 Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 84 1970 Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79 1970 Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37 1969 Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85 1967 Albertina Rasch, ballerina/choreographer, dies at 76 1965 [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies 1962 Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48 1960 Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, dies at 51 1958 Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies 1958 Wilhelmus L Reoers, sculptor, dies at 48 1958 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author 1957 Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26 1956 George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74 1956 Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist, dies at 73 1955 James Dean, U.S. actor (East of Eden, Giant), dies 1955 O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies 1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries 1943 Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60 1931 Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies 1931 Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman 1927 Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies 1920 Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82 1916 Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58 1915 Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38 1905 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 1873 Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies 1872 Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies 1863 Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies 1860 Louis Hersent, painter, dies 1853 D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies 1850 Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies 1842 Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56 1842 William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies 1823 Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 1809 Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 1803 Samuel Adams, U.S. revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 1786 August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies 1780 John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) 1729 Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60 1721 Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies 1707 Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 1678 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them 1656 Stephan Otto, composer, dies at 53 1629 Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies 1617 Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies 1588 Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies 1564 Andreas Vesalius, Andries of Wesel, Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 1517 John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 1264 Urbanus IV, Jacques Pantaleon, French Pope (1261-64), dies 1113 Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies 939 Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 472 Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies
