2004 Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 93 2003 Anita Mui, singer/actress, dies at 40 2003 John Gregory Dunne, writer, True Confessions, dies at 71 1999 Sarah Clark Knauss, oldest person 1999, dies at 119 1998 Johnny Roventini, pitchman, Phillip Morris radio and TV ads, dies at 88 1996 Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53 1996 Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88 1996 Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89 1995 Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66 1995 Roger W. Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65 1994 Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 1993 Mack David, U.S. songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81 1993 [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86 1992 Cesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies 1992 Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave U.S., dies at 23 1989 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies 1979 Richard Rodgers, composer, Rogers and Hammerstein, dies at 77 1973 Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101 1971 Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58 1967 Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38 1966 Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 1966 Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st United Nations Secretary-General (1946-53), dies at 72 1961 Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53 1959 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76 1952 Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies 1951 Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76 1947 Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58 1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician 1946 Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65 1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 1943 Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 1941 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist 1940 Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79 1931 Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 1912 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 1899 James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85 1895 LP Hartley, British writer, dies 1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76 1893 Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72 1870 ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered 1832 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies 1828 Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38 1825 Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64 1821 Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42 1796 Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45 1788 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86 1777 Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50 1635 Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies 1591 Innocent IX, Giovanni Facchinetti, Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72 1572 Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 1525 Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66 273 Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274)
