2004 Margaret Hassan, humanitarian, director of Care in Iraq who was murdered by terrorists, dies at 59 2003 Gene Anthony Ray, dancer/actor, Fame, dies at 41 2002 Eddie Bracken, actor, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, dies at 87 2001 Charlotte Coleman, actress, Four Weddings and a Funeral, dies at 33 2000 Robert Trout, radio Methuselah, ", coined the term ""fireside chat"" to describe FDR's informal speeches, ", dies at 91 1997 Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81 1997 Stefan Lorant, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, dies at 96 1996 Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, lloyd's underwriter, dies at 77 1996 Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68 1996 Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst, dies at 96 1996 Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights), dies at 88 1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84 1995 Jack Walter Braden Finney, writer, dies at 84 1995 John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer, dies at 83 1995 John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90 1994 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83 1994 Jake Dengel, U.S. actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61 1994 John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric and Stoflongen), dies at 83 1994 John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88 1994 Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60 1993 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies 1992 Clem Beauchamp, U.S. stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies 1992 Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies 1992 George Adams, U.S. tenor saxophonist/flautist (Changes One), dies 1992 Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies 1992 Robert Reese, producer, dies of natural causes at 66 1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 1990 K L Poll, journalist/author, dies 1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 1990 Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21 1987 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88 1984 George Matthews, Brooklyn, New York, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 1982 Joachim Stutschewsky, composer, dies at 91 1979 Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies 1977 Richard Addinsell, English composer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 73 1975 Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88 1974 Johnny Mack Brown, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies at 70 1972 Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies 1965 Russell Collins, actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68 1965 Dawn Powell, American Writer 1964 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85 1962 Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres and Soledad), dies at 80 1960 Walter Catlett, actor (Climax), dies of a stroke at 71 1959 Thomas Ross, actor (Without Limit), dies at 84 1956 Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67 1955 Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59 1955 Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright 1946 Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies 1946 Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (Vita Breve, Atlantida), dies at 69 1935 J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies 1929 Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (New York Giants), dies at 58 1925 Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer, dies at 78 1922 Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer, dies at 79 1917 William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 1915 Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala 1915 Theodor Leschetizky, composer, dies at 85 1914 Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, governor of Natal, dies at 82 1910 John LaFarge, American Artist 1908 Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies 1906 Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies 1902 Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies 1860 Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58 1844 Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 1842 Henry de Cock, reform vicar, dies at 41 1841 Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies 1832 Charles Carroll, large landowner, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 95 1832 Rasmus Rask, Danish language scholar, dies at 44 1831 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74 1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher 1825 Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise', dies at 62, in Bayreuth, Germany 1819 William Samuel Johnson, American Politician 1814 Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 1804 Agatha "Aagje" Blanket, literary (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62 1794 Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30 1780 Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81 1734 Louise de Keroualle, English duchess/mistress of king Charles II, dies 1716 Gottfried W. Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70 1716 Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher 1692 Christoph Bernhard, German composer, dies at 64 1687 Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II, dies at 37 1682 Rocklof Volckertsz of Goens, Governor-General of Ned's-Indies, dies at 63 1673 Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies 1633 William Ames, English Philosopher 1625 Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1589 Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58 1522 Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61 1359 Gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies 1263 Alexander Nevski, Aleksandr, Russian ruler (1252-63), dies at 43 976 T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies 784 Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies 563 Justinianus, co-emperor of Byzantium (527-563), dies at 82