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October 4, 2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut/businessman, dies at 77 October 4, 1996 Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43 October 4, 1996 Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83 October 4, 1996 Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87 October 4, 1995 Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81 October 4, 1994 Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90 October 4, 1994 Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49 October 4, 1994 Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 October 4, 1993 Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80 October 4, 1992 Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands October 4, 1992 Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer October 4, 1992 Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands October 4, 1991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 October 4, 1990 Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67 October 4, 1990 Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58 October 4, 1989 Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48 October 4, 1982 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies October 4, 1982 Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50 October 4, 1979 Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56 October 4, 1976 Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74 October 4, 1975 Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72 October 4, 1974 Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 October 4, 1972 Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61 October 4, 1972 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68 October 4, 1971 Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76 October 4, 1970 George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71 October 4, 1970 Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27 October 4, 1966 Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66 October 4, 1962 John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 October 4, 1961 Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies October 4, 1955 Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies October 4, 1949 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75 October 4, 1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies October 4, 1943 Richard T Ely, U.S. economist (Ground under our feet), dies October 4, 1929 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37 October 4, 1912 Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed October 4, 1907 Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57 October 4, 1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies October 4, 1903 Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher October 4, 1893 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88 October 4, 1892 Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39 October 4, 1880 William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies October 4, 1863 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69 October 4, 1862 William Duncan Smith, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies at 36 October 4, 1859 Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57 October 4, 1848 Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 October 4, 1838 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79 October 4, 1830 Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Governor-General of E-Prussia, dies at 71 October 4, 1755 Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies October 4, 1743 John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64 October 4, 1721 Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 October 4, 1713 Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76 October 4, 1669 Rembrandt H van R˜n, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies October 4, 1590 Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68 October 4, 1582 Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies October 4, 1571 Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60 October 4, 1564 Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies October 4, 1540 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies October 4, 1072 Sancho II, king of Castilie/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35 |