2004 Howard Keel, "actor, singer", Kiss Me Kate, dies at 85 Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies 2002 Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84 1996 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84 Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57 Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81 1995 Jerry Daniels, singer and guitarist, dies at 79 John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90 Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74 1994 Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54 Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], U.S. jazz trumpeter, dies at 70 1993 Adelaide Hall, U.S. jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92 Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68 1992 Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70 Jack Kelly, U.S. actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65 1991 Gene Tierney, U.S. actress (Laura/Heaven can wait), dies at 70 1990 Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78 1984 George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease 1983 David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61 Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91 1981 Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96 1980 Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50 1979 Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71 Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53 1978 Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80 Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86 1974 Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54 1972 Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 51 1968 Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies 1967 John Nance Garner, (Vice President-D, 1933-41), dies at 98 Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71 1965 Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in New York City 1961 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64 1960 Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69 1959 Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72 1956 Una Mae Carlisle, U.S. pianist/singer, dies at 40 1944 Richard Sorge and Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo 1943 Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44 1941 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 1938 Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered 1935 Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39 1924 Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85 1919 Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 1913 Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist 1910 Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82 1901 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader and viceroy of Tsheli, dies 1893 Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37 1880 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72 1876 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65 1859 Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61 1857 Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62 1838 Anne Grant, Scottish Poet 1837 Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34 1827 Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 76 1817 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85 1802 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50 1796 Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 1723 Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies 1708 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76 1678 Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70 1639 William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79 1633 Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1608 Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle 1600 Baki, Turkish royal poet (Davan, Ghazalijjat), dies at about 74 1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies 1560 Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies 1225 Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40 739 Willibrord, Clemens, 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
