2004 Ed Kemmer, actor, Space Patrol, dies at 83 2004 Iris Chang, Chinese Historian 2003 Art Carney, actor, Harry and Tonto, dies at 85 2002 Merlin Santana, actor, Showtime, dies at 25 2001 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist 1999 Mabel King, actress, What's Happening!, dies at 66 1996 Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91 1996 Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92 1995 Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88 1995 Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81 1994 Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70 1994 Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67 1994 Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87 1993 Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72 1993 Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63 1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies 1992 William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92 1991 Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies 1991 Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70 1990 Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author 1988 Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79 1988 John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington 1988 John N. Mitchell, American Politician 1985 Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81 1985 Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs 1980 Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79 1980 Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65 1979 Lewis Charles, actor (Feather and Father Gang), dies at 59 1978 Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75 1978 Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82 1977 Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday 1976 Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56 1974 Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89 1971 Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90 1970 William L. Dawson, Representative-D-Illinois 1943 - 1970, dies at 84 1970 Charles De Gaulle, Leader 1968 Jan Johansson, composer, pianist, infused traditional European folks tunes with jazz, avant garde style, dies at 37 in a car crash in Jonkoping, Sweden 1968 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1967 Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78 1959 Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70 1955 Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65 1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73 1953 Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in New York at 39 1953 Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian Statesman 1952 Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77 1951 Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87 1951 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64 1948 Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58 1943 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67 1942 Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday 1939 Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr 1932 Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30 1929 Nicolaas Theunissen, South Africa cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies 1925 Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, Kostrowitsky, French poet 'Alcools', dies at 38 1911 Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50 1906 Elisabeth Saint Drieeenheid, French mystic (Souvenirs), dies at 26 1906 Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64 1897 Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48 1874 Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies 1862 John Bordenave Villepigue, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 32 1829 Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66 1801 Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56 1778 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58 1754 Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70 1677 Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73 1662 Cornelis van Aerssen, Dutch ruler of Sommelsdok, dies at about 62 1641 Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32 1623 William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72 1620 Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65 1580 Gaspar Schetz, South Netherlands, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67 1068 Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies 959 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
