2004 Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino Actor 2003 Jeanne Crain, actress, An Apartment for Peggy, dies at 78 2001 W. G. Sebald, German Writer 1999 Cathy Hainer, journalist, USA Today, dies at 38 1999 Douglas Leigh, Broadway sign designer, dies at 92 1998 Norman Fell, actor, Three's Company, dies at 74 1997 Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99 1997 Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82 1997 Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79 1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92 1996 Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88 1995 Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85 1995 Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28 1994 Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75 1994 Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58 1993 Myrna Loy, Williams, U.S. actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88 1991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83 1990 F Durrenmatt, writer, dies at 69 1990 Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94 1990 Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64 1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 1989 Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70 1989 Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad and Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64 1988 Stuart Symington, Senator-D-Missouri 1953 - 1976, 1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies 1985 Roger Maris, home run hitter, 61 in 61, New York Yankees, dies of cancer at 51 1985 Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85 1984 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazon), dies at 86 1980 Elston Howard, MVP catcher (New York Yankees), dies at 59 1975 Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81 1974 Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85 1973 Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77 1966 Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91 1966 Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60 1966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76 1965 Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84 1964 William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58 1963 Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39 1963 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62 1960 Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at 63 1959 Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84 1959 Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1955 Otto Braun, German Politician 1952 Olav Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, dies at 65 1950 Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65 1948 Reginald Owen Morris, composer, dies at 62 1947 Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84 1947 Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80 1945 Constantino Gaito, composer, dies at 67 1945 Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan and Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61 1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday 1945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged 1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61 1939 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70 1938 Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76 1935 Stanley G Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies 1928 Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77 1926 Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64 1923 Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72 1918 Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered 1914 Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73 1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies 1906 John A. C. Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78 1903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair 1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 1893 Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 1886 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27 1873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies 1873 Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist 1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 1861 Albert, prince consort of England/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 1861 George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76 1861 Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66 1849 Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 1829 Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 1823 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 1799 George Washington, 1st president United States 1789 - 1797, dies at 66 1788 Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 1788 Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72 1760 Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies 1754 Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 1734 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 1732 Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80 1591 Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies 1542 James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 1417 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned 1136 Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered 1077 Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies 872 Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80
