2003 Earl Hindman, voice with hat, Home Improvement, dies at 61 1997 Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82 1996 Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77 Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90 Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83 Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89 Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81 Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 1995 Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85 Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87 Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86 Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81 1994 Eugene Tanner, Jr., singer, dies at 58 Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68 1992 LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87 Vivienne Segal, U.S. actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95 1991 Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64 1986 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 John Antill, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, dies at 82 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1957 - 1963, dies at 92 Harold MacMillan, English Politician 1984 Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84 1982 Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79 1981 Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41 1980 Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 Tim Hardin, U.S. singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39 1976 Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter, 2 Silver Medals 1976 Olympics, dies at 22 1972 Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor 1971 Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87 1970 John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 1967 Paul Whiteman, U.S. orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77 1965 Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79 1964 Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63 Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73 1959 Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56 1958 Doris Humphrey, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63 1956 Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73 1952 Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54 1947 Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 1943 William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75 1942 Frank D. Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83 1937 Don Marquis, American Poet 1933 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered 1926 Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51 1925 Felix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 1919 William Osler, Canadian Scientist 1916 Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 1915 Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 1898 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 1894 Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 Christina Rossetti, British Poet 1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 1890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee 1877 Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies 1876 Titus Salt, English Businessman 1871 Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 1847 William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 1836 Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 1835 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 1825 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 1822 Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 1821 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Netherlands general, dies at 61 1815 Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris 1785 Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 1731 J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 1703 Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 1689 Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1630 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 1619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies 1558 Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1141 Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed