2004 Tug McGraw, American Athlete 2003 Jean Kerr, writer, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, dies at 79 2003 Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82 2001 Nancy Parsons, actress, Porky's, dies at 58 1998 Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82 1998 Sonny Bono, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, singer, Sonny and Cher, dies skiing at 62 1997 Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72 1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86 1996 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84 1996 Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88 1996 Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63 1995 Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78 1995 Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46 1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87 1994 Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1977 - 1987, Speaker of the House, dies of cancer at 81 1994 Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39 1994 William Raynor, writer, dies at 73 1994 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician 1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 1993 Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61 1993 Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60 1993 Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65 1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies 1993 Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84 1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered 1993 Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52 1993 Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965 1991 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 1991 Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80 1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 1990 Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76 1990 Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies 1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40 1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60 1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian Athlete 1982 Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64 1982 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56 1981 Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87 1981 Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67 1979 Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 1977 Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74 1976 Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84 1975 Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning 1974 Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79 1973 Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79 1971 Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 1970 Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered 1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1970 Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73 1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY 1968 Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 1965 Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73 1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81 1963 Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66 1960 Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53 1956 Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 1952 Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for Ind), dies 1952 Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64 1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 1945 Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65 1944 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 1943 George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81 1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered 1940 Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 1936 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60 1922 Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1922 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer 1904 Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 1891 Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday 1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet 1862 Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81 1860 St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies 1858 Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91 1856 Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor, dies at 67 1848 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73 1827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 1814 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72 1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41 1796 Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64 1788 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85 1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday 1762 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52 1759 Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Netherlands cardinal, dies at 79 1746 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53 1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72 1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44 1603 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73 1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies 1592 Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75 1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73 1477 Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43 1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned 1387 Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67 1066 Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies