2004 Anthony Hecht, American Poet 1996 Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75 1996 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 1995 Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47 1995 Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53 1995 Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83 1995 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65 1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80 1994 Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88 1994 Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 1994 Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69 1994 Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74 1993 James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 1993 Maurice Dolbier, U.S. actor and writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 1992 Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity 1990 Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84 1989 Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76 1986 Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 1984 Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1983 Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75 1977 Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28 1977 Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29 1977 Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash 1972 Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86 1970 Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44 1968 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st president of U.S. (1929-33), dies in New York at 90 1964 Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84 1959 Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 1955 Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51 1954 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51 1952 Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 1950 Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/Governor-General, dies 1950 Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman 1944 Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65 1942 May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84 1936 Anne Sullivan, American Educator 1931 Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68 1929 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76 1927 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78 1926 Eugene V. Debs, American Politician 1920 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 1913 Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69 1906 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (New York Giants), dies at 67 1904 Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77 1900 Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. writer (As We Go), dies at 70 1899 Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle 1882 Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 1876 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68 1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 1870 Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62 1864 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate General-major, dies at 27 1842 Grace Darling, English Celebrity 1819 Lambert-Franeois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66 1794 James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 1765 William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44 1740 Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies 1676 Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61 1525 Joannes Custos, S Netherlands humanist, dies at about 50 1438 Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 1274 Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies 1268 Conrad Hohenstaufen, Conrad van Zwaben, son of Conrad IV, dies 1268 Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples 1187 Urbanus III, Umberto Crivelli, Italian Pope (1185-87), dies 1139 Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies 460 Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poet, dies
