2004 Jerry Goldsmith, composer, The Omen, dies at 75 1998 Alan Shepard, astronaut, first American in space, dies at 74 Robert Young, actor, Marcus Welby, dies at 91 1996 Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85 Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70 Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St. Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62 James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74 John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr. Who), dies at 71 1995 Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65 Elleston Trevor, author, dies Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59 1994 Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67 John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67 Hugh Scott, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1959 - 1977 1993 Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88 Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56 Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53 1991 Theodore Wilson, dies at 47 1990 Manuel Puig, Argentina writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57 Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70 Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65 1986 Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed Virginia Hewitt, actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60 1985 Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65 Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney) 1984 Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34 1982 Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69 Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58 1979 Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1975 Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82 Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85 1974 Willem F K Hussem, painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74 1973 Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69 1972 Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies 1968 Ruth St. Denis, U.S. choreography, dies at about 90 1967 Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75 Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Detroit Tigers/534 home runs), dies at 59 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80 1966 Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83 1957 Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies 1950 Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71 1948 Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43 Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58 1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau Henning von Tresckow, General-Major, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide 1943 Charles William Paddock, 100m runner, Gold Medal 1920 Olympics, dies at 42 1928 Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81 Ellen Terry, English Actress 1922 Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered 1917 Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle 1910 Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66 1899 Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer 1891 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51 1888 Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53 1870 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42 1861 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44 1831 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55 1821 Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55 1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37 1782 Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63 1717 Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies 1683 Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded 1544 Rene of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle 1540 John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies 1425 Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies 1160 Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies