2005 Joe Grant, American Artist 2004 Virginia Capers, actress, Raisin, dies at 78 2002 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician 1996 Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85 1996 Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78 1996 Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87 1996 Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79 1996 Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91 1996 Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50 1995 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88 1995 Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47 1995 Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57 1994 Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67 1994 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 59 1994 Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72 1994 Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81 1993 Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84 1993 Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 77 1992 Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75 1992 Marlene Dietrich, Maria Losch, actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90 1991 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies 1991 Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62 1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87 1990 Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89 1990 Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany 1989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space) 1987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73 1984 William Allen Egan, American Politician 1982 Sam Baker, dies 1978 Ethelda Bleibtrey, U.S. swimmer, 3 Gold Medals 1920 Olympics, dies at 76 1978 Ko van Dijk, Jr., Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61 1976 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85 1975 Jozsef Mindszenty, Joseph Prehm, Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83 1973 Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79 1971 Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70 1964 Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74 1963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74 1961 Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65 1960 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67 1954 B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies 1952 Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60 1952 Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81 1950 Agnes Smedley, writer, dies 1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86 1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1936 Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59 1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet and writer (socialism), dies at 47 1919 Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 1916 Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 1916 Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50 1910 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68 1908 Jean Reville, French vicar (Le Prophetisme Hebreu), dies at 53 1904 Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67 1902 Bret Harte, American Author 1892 Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54 1890 Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71 1884 Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician 1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1864 Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Micah Jenkins, Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at 28 1862 Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies 1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies 1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 1841 John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 1814 George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 1776 James Kent, composer, dies at 76 1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 1727 Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 1678 Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 1667 Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 1666 Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday 1638 Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies 1540 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 1527 Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 1475 Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 1124 Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered 1085 King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies 988 Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland 523 Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen
