2004 Vaughn Meader, comic/musician, The First Family, dies at 62 2003 Franco Corelli, opera singer, dies at 81 2003 Hal Clement, science fiction writer/educator, Mission of Gravity, dies at 81 1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 1996 Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50 1996 Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 1994 Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 1994 Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87 1994 Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44 1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65 1992 Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies 1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies 1991 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies 1991 Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies 1991 Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies 1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer 1987 Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 1987 Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74 1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68 1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 1975 John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 1973 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83 1971 Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24 1968 Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 1966 [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris 1963 Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 1962 Dewi Angrenie, Martha AP Giese, Flemish/Dutch actress, dies at 85 1962 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 1957 Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 1957 Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered 1951 Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86 1950 Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92 1949 G. I. Gurdjieff, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way, dies at age 83, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 1947 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69 1946 John S Curry, U.S. painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies 1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55 1939 Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73 1934 Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71 1933 Paul, Prudent, Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies 1932 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies 1931 Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38 1927 Leonard Nelson, Germany philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45 1922 George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79 1920 Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74 1919 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60 1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1907 Gerald Massey, English Poet 1901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted 1897 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1892 William M Harnett, U.S. painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies 1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 1885 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda 1885 George McClellan, American Soldier 1885 George B. McClellan, American Soldier 1883 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68 1882 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1876 Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59 1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 1873 Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies 1873 Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78 1864 John Leech, English Artist 1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 1853 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68 1853 William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29 1846 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90 1829 Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies 1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 1802 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95 1790 Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66 1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66 1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1590 Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68 1321 Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies 490 Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
