2007 Albert Ellis, American psychologist, dies of heart failure at 93 2004 Carl Rakosi, German Poet 2000 David Tomlinson, actor, Mary Poppins, dies at 83 1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75 1996 Quinton Hazell, businessman, dies at 76 1995 John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer, dies at 66 1995 John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner, dies at 71 1994 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83 1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns 1992 Tom Alexander, model/actor (Kurt-Forbidden Dance), dies of AIDs 1992 Tony LeMans, singer/songwriter, dies in a car crash at 29 1991 Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, New York Stories), dies at 74 1991 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91 1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71 1984 William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94 1976 Minor White, American Photographer 1973 Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99 1971 Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies 1969 Maria Belgado, entertainer, dies 1969 Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies 1969 Willey Ley, U.S. science writer, dies at 62 1969 Willy Ley, German Writer 1962 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83 1959 Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69 1953 George Herbert Walker, American Businessman 1952 Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84 1944 Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36 1936 Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49 1935 Carlos Gardel, Argentinian Musician 1933 Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", U.S. singer, dies at about 64 1922 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 1913 Frank Lynes, composer, dies at 55 1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71 1894 M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 1891 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80 1882 Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60 1861 Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61), dies at 38 1817 Thomas McKean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish / U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 88 1778 Peter Burmannus Secundus, P Burman, Dutch classicist, dies at 64 1724 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77 1712 Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72 1707 Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 1673 John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle 1652 Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 65 1643 John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 1629 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67 1572 Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged 1572 Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged 1572 Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged 1572 Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged 1572 Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged 1519 Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39 1475 Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg and Eichstatt), dies at 54