2004 Ray Charles, blues legend, Georgia on My Mind, dies at 73 2003 Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant 2002 John Gotti, American Criminal 2000 Frank Patterson, Irish tenor, dies at 61 2000 Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57 2000 Judd Rose, journalist, dies at 44 2000 Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60 2000 Brian Statham, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009, dies in Stockport, England, of leukemia, at age 69 1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, U.S. senator, dies at 89 1996 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75 1996 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89 1996 Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies 1995 Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85 1995 Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82 1994 Edward Kienholz, U.S. sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66 1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64 1993 Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72 1993 Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83 1993 Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano (Matthaus Passion), dies at 53 1993 Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77 1992 Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure 1992 Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85 1992 Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84 1992 Morris Kline, American Writer 1991 Vercors, Jean Bruller, French writer (Silence of Mer), dies 1989 Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68 1988 Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer 1987 Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45 1985 Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68 1985 George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87 1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, U.S. singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36 1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68 1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/U.S. fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103 1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74 1973 William M Inge, U.S. playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60 1971 Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61 1971 Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82 1969 Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64 1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 1967 Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76 1967 Spencer Tracy, U.S. actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67 1964 Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79 1963 Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74 1954 Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87 1953 Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73 1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67 1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20 1946 Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident 1946 Sidney Hillman, American Activist 1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, resister, executed at 41 1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 1943 Abd al-Azir al-Hasan VI, sultan of Morocco (1894-1907), dies at 62 1942 Jean Van Royen, Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 1941 Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78 1941 Marcus Garvey, U.S. black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52 1934 Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72 1926 Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists 1923 Gustav Enestrom, Swedish historian, dies at 70 1923 Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, dies 1918 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76 1918 Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated 1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated 1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies 1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68 1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 1893 Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49 1883 Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71 1875 Duff Green, American Politician 1868 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered 1849 Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63 1839 Nathaniel Pryor, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies 1836 Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies 1834 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75 1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53 1727 George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 1654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58 1588 Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies 1584 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28 1580 Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies 1560 Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland 1556 Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies 1247 Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies 1190 Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies
