2004 Johnny Oates, American Athlete 2001 Harvey Martin, American Athlete 1997 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69 Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57 James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77 1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77 Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47 1995 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76 Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59 1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57 John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65 John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 Julie Haydon, Donella Donaldson, U.S. actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84 Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82 Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 Norman Vincent Peale, Reverend, 'Power of Positive Thinking', dies at 95 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies 1992 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64 1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 1987 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75 1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1980 Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73 Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer (1945), dies at 89 1979 Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/Secretary-General NATO, dies at 82 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39 1977 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66 1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79 1975 Bernard Herrmann, U.S. movie composer, dies at 64 Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78 1974 Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70 1972 Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79 1966 Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69 1961 Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76 1959 William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat 1957 Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (sign on bay), dies at 60 1955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67 Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1952 Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 1945 Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67 1944 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66 1942 Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists K Balmont, writer, dies at 75 1935 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 Alban Berg, Austrian Composer 1932 Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60 1930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56 1914 John Muir, American Environmentalist 1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 1908 Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80 1907 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies 1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55 1898 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 1889 Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies 1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55 Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer 1863 W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52 William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist 1862 Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84 1823 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68 1707 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 1660 Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29 1548 Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies 1541 Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61 1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55 1453 John Dunstable, English composer, dies 1380 John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies 1069 Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
