2004 Arthur Hailey, writer, Airport, dies at 84 2004 Larry Brown, writer, Big Bad Love, dies at 53 2003 Warren Spahn, American Baseball pitcher, dies at home 2002 John Rawls, American Educator 2001 Rachel Gurney, actress, ", Upstairs, Downstairs, ", dies at 81 1996 Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67 1996 Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist, dies at 76 1996 Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85 1995 Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front), dies at 89 1995 Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53 1995 Woiciech Woytek Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer, dies at 56 1994 Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 1994 Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88 1994 Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce and Hart), dies at 55 1993 Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist, dies at 89 1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24 1993 Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36 1993 Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter 1992 Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense (1971-73), dies at 78 1992 Mary Smithuysen, Dutch dancer/actress (Bridge Too Far), dies 1992 Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94 1991 Anton Furst, production designer (Batman), dies at 47 1991 Eric Carr, born Paul Charles Caravello, drummer, member of rock band Kiss, dies of heart cancer at age 41 in New York 1991 Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45 1990 Bulent Arel, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, dies at 72 1990 Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan 1990 Fred Shero, Canadian Athlete 1989 Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio host, dies at 85 1985 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67 1980 George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr. Ace), dies at 85 1978 Warren Weaver, American Scientist 1977 Richard Carlson, actor and director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65 1972 Hall Overton, U.S. composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52 1970 Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76 1967 Arnold J d'ailly, mayor of Amsterdam (1946-56), dies at 65 1964 John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby 1962 James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60 1961 Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67 1960 Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82 1959 Lyman Bryson, educator (U.N. Casebook), dies at 71 1959 Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60 1958 Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94 1957 Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (Within the Law), dies 1953 George Alexander Russell, composer, dies at 73 1953 Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70 1948 Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer, dies at 64 1946 Alfonso Broqua, composer, dies at 70 1944 EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies 1944 Vaclav Stepan, composer, dies at 54 1943 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38 1943 Reina Prince Geerligs, Leentjes Vandendriesch, anti-fascist, dies 1929 Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88 1923 Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39 1916 John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79 1914 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies 1903 Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56 1899 Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), dies 1885 Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1875-85), dies at 27 1880 Hanri Reber, composer, dies at 73 1863 Claudius Charles Wilson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 32 1848 William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1842 Pehr Frigel, composer, dies at 92 1840 Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82 1838 Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer, dies at 65 1827 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54 1822 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer, dies at 50 1722 Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99 1674 Franciscus van Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker, executed at 72 1650 Manuel Cardoso, composer, dies at 83 1615 Sethus Calvisius, composer, dies at 59 1572 John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67 1571 Jan Blahoslav, Czechoslovakian bishop, dies at 48 1555 French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65 1192 Albert I van Leuven/Luik, Belgian bishop of Luik/saint, dies at 27 1115 Mathilde, markgravin of Toscane, dies
