2004 Carrie Snodgress, actress, Diary of a Mad Housewife, dies at 57 1997 Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa and Eva, dies at 97 1997 Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52 1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies 1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89 1996 John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87 1996 John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51 1996 Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47 1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 1995 Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73 1995 Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63 1995 Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93 1995 Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75 1995 Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86 1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies 1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81 1994 Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86 1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72 1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38 1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, Yunis Awad, Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed 1993 Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies 1993 Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68 1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash 1991 Martha Graham, U.S., choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 1991 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies 1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 1989 Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57 1988 Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91 1988 Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 1984 Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45 1984 Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer 1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 1979 Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51 1976 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 1976 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 1976 Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73 1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75 1975 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95 1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86 1973 Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies 1969 Helena Rubinstein, U.S. cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89 1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 1966 Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 1965 Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76 1964 Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60 1960 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist and writer (Ciske), dies at 62 1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies 1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 1952 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76 1951 Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51 1950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 1947 George II, king of Greece, dies at 56 1946 Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62 1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81 1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61 1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21), dies at 64 1930 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92 1930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies 1925 Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77 1922 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies 1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64 1918 Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet 1917 Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 1916 Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1916 Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist and writer (Abbingawald), dies 1915 Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82 1914 Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB 1910 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94 1901 Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 1878 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56 1870 Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98 1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at 69 1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98 1866 Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies 1832 Robert the Hermit, U.S. ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies 1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51 1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 1807 Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 1807 Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57 1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61 1799 Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52 1734 Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69 1611 Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72 1548 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 1205 Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII and Henry II, dies at 81