2004 Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman 2002 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/adventurer, Kon-Tiki, dies at 87 2000 Martin Mailman, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe dies in Denton, Texas 1998 Terry Sanford, poltician, senator from North Carolina, dies at 80 1996 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62 1996 Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55 1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88 1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies 1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 1993 Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 1992 Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer 1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 1986 Marcel Dassault, Bloch, French airplane builder, dies at 94 1984 John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81 1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78 1975 Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38 1974 Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77 1974 Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79 1969 Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 1964 Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49 1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71 1963 Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death 1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85 1958 Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies 1955 Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies 1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 1949 Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies 1947 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51 1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 1945 John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies 1944 Cecile Chamindale, composer, dies 1943 I Yamamoto, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies 1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies 1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies 1939 Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88 1938 Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies 1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 1936 Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82 1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 1928 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58 1925 Charles Ebbets, Dodgers President, dies 1921 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70 1919 Enny Vrede, Maria M Muller, Dutch actress, drowns at 35 1917 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73 1905 Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80 1898 Gustave Moureau, painter, dies 1883 Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36 1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies 1874 David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey 1873 Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 1871 Omar Pasha, Michael Lats, Croatian governor, dies at 64 1867 Robert Smirke, architect, dies 1861 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67 1860 Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide 1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies 1854 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 1853 William King, U.S. Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration 1845 Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 1830 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62 1824 Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72 1818 Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59 1807 Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies 1800 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84 1800 Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies 1710 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75 1690 Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian Field Marshal, dies 1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies 1684 Gonzales Cocx, Coques, painter, dies 1679 Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies 1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies 1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 1587 John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies 1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 1552 John Leland, antiquary, dies 1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 1504 Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 680 Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
