2004 Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director murdered by terrorists, Submission 2004 Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47 2003 Frank McCloskey, Representative-D-Indiana 1983 - 1995, died of cancer 2003 Jimmy Quillen, born in Virginia, Representative-R-Tennessee 1963 - 1997 2002 Charles Sheffield, science and science fiction writer, Starfire, dies at 67 2000 Eva Morris, really old woman, Oldest person in 2000, dies at 114 2000 Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75 1997 Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68 1997 G. Harry Stine, writer, Also wrote as Lee Correy, dies at 69 1996 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies 1996 Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72 1995 Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58 1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated 1995 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82 1995 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68 1995 Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83 1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56 1995 Sal Gliatto, baseball player, dies at 93 1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 1994 Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73 1994 Noah Beery, Jr., U.S. actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81 1993 P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees and Hope), dies at about 86 1992 Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100 1991 Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx New York at 72 1991 Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75 1986 Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66 1984 Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years 1980 Willie Sutton, U.S. bank robber, dies at 79 1971 Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46 1970 Johannes Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Goethe in Bohmen), dies at 74 1970 Richard Cushing, U.S. cardinal to Boston, dies at 75 1970 Richard Cardinal Cushing, American Clergyman 1969 Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63 1968 Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 1966 Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73 1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89 1964 Haakon Stoton, Dutch oboist, dies at 49 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 1962 Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 1961 James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66 1960 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64 1958 Adam von Ahn Carse, composer, dies at 80 1956 Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77 1956 Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1952 Maire O'Neill, actress (Juno and the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies 1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94 1937 Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82 1935 H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies 1931 Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 1925 Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65 1920 Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73 1916 Carmen Sylva, Romanian Royalty 1909 Theodor W. Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81 1887 Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale, soprano, dies at 67 1884 Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62 1882 Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61 1875 JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered 1870 William F Brantly, Confederate, murdered at about 40 1845 Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55 1804 Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 1781 Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 1731 Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26 1717 Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies 1716 Engelbrecht Kampfer, German/Netherlands VOC-surgeon, dies at 65 1697 Constantine Huygens, Jr., Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried 1635 Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68 1610 Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66 1588 Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63 1483 Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of England, beheaded at 49 1171 Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies 1171 Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies
