2003 Trevor Goddard, actor/boxer, JAG, dies at 37 2002 Signe Hasso, actress, original movie version of Heaven Can Wait, dies at 91 2001 Charles Templeton, Canadian Cartoonist 1996 Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70 1996 Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88 1996 Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91 1995 Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84 1994 Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81 1994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59 1994 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered 1994 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42 1994 Thadde Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda, murdered during the Rwandan genocide 1993 Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (New Jersey Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28 1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73 1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1991 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies 1990 Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack 1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies 1989 Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies 1987 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73 1984 George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81 1983 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried 1983 Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81 1980 Henry [Valentine] Miller, U.S. writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88 1980 Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies 1980 Henry Miller, American Author 1979 Forrest Carter, American Writer 1976 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestral leader (Air time '57), dies at 61 1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50 1971 Leo Burnett, American Businessman 1971 Ben Pollack, American Musician 1970 Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 1970 E. M. Forster, English Novelist 1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53 1968 Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 1967 Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73 1967 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54 1966 Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1965 Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42 1965 Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59 1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer (Bauernpassion), dies 1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65 1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies 1957 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies 1956 Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer (La trahison des clercs), dies 1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged 1948 Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90 1945 Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74 1945 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69 1940 James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39 1938 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies 1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies 1932 Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76 1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered 1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered 1926 Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63 1915 Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35 1906 Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74 1896 Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island 1893 Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43 1893 Edwin Booth, American Actor 1877 Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68 1876 George Sand, writer, dies at 71 1866 Chief Seattle, American 1863 Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75 1862 William B Mumford, 1st U.S. citizen hanged for treason, at 42 1843 F Holderlin, writer, dies at 73 1843 Johann C F Holderlin, German poet, dies at 73 1840 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69 1838 Laure S-MP duchess d'abrantes, French marshal Junot, dies 1814 Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71 1800 Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Netherlands-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75 1789 Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81 1784 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71 1779 William Warburton, English Critic 1778 Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62 1754 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52 1701 Ferdinand W, Prince of Wurttemberg-Neustadt, dies at 41 1697 John Aubrey, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives', died of apoplexy 1672 Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37 1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried 1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 1631 Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal) 1624 Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74 1572 August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 1571 Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68 1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 1549 Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded 1492 Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64 1337 Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49 1329 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53 555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
