2001 Edward Boland, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1953 - 1989, died at the age of 90 from natural causes 1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84 1997 George Chambers, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1981 - 1986, dies 1997 H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73 1997 Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line), dies at 66 1996 Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72 1995 Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70 1995 Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64 1995 Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50 1995 Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68 1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 1995 Morrie Schwartz, American Educator 1994 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87 1994 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46 1994 Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64 1994 Sam Francis, U.S. painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71 1994 Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71 1993 Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78 1993 Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29 1993 Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62 1993 Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey), dies of stroke at 73 1993 Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56 1992 Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl), dies of cancer at 49 1987 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at 87 1984 Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95 1982 Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23 1975 Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54 1974 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62 1973 Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75 1973 Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72 1969 Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle 1969 Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66 1968 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 1967 June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36 1965 Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77 1957 Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78 1956 Art[hur] Tatum, U.S. jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46 1955 Cy Young, pitcher, 511 wins, 1890 - 1911 1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31 1953 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89 1942 Marcel Barger, Streliskie, cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz 1940 Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 1939 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69 1937 Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61 1935 Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43 1932 Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41 1931 Charles Buddy Bolden, U.S. jazz musician, dies 1928 Arnold Rothstein, A R, U.S. businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46 1927 Ole Olsen, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major, dies at 77 in Oslo, Norway 1924 Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79 1921 Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered 1918 Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25 1914 Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27 1908 Tomas Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies 1898 Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62 1894 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1893 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86 1890 Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74 1890 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46 1853 Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27 1847 Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Germ pianist/composer, dies at 38 1837 Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69 1830 Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37 1768 Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57 1708 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of F Henry, dies at 71 1702 John Benbow, English Vice-Admiral (Santa Marta), dies 1702 Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58 1674 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72 1541 Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63 1203 Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies 644 Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered