2004 Robert Merrill, opera singer, dies at 85 2003 Madame Chiang Kai-shek, more-than-just-a-political-widow, dies at 105 2002 Adolph Green, "lyricist, screenwriter", Singin' in the Rain, dies at 86 1996 Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67 1996 Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91 1996 Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47 1996 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68 1996 Harold E. Hughes, American Politician 1994 Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66 1994 William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78 1992 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies 1991 Lance Baker, dies at 31 1990 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies 1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92 1986 Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67 1984 David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma 1984 Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61 1983 Jessica Savage, Margate New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36 1983 Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack 1982 Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52 1978 Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69 1976 Leonard Lee, U.S. R&B-singer (Shirley and Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40 1975 Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43 1975 Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77 1969 Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47 1966 Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88 1963 Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78 1957 Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86 1954 Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76 1953 Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83 1952 Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31 1950 Al Jolson, Asa Yoelson, singer and actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64 1948 Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71 1946 Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1942 Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies 1942 Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41 1939 Zane Grey, U.S. western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67 1935 Abe Landau, U.S. gangster, murdered 1935 Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], U.S. gangster, murdered at 33 1935 Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, U.S. gangster, murdered 1929 Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74 1928 F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies 1926 Olympia Brown, American Activist 1925 Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50 1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 1915 W G Grace, British cricketer, dies 1913 Henry Potonie, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium), dies 1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66 1901 Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies 1899 W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle 1892 Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52 1890 Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies 1886 Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67 1872 Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 1869 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72 1838 Joseph Lancaster, English Educator 1806 Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58 1801 Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60 1799 William Paca, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 58 1782 Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73 1753 Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50 1602 Franciscus Junius, French/Netherlands calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 1450 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70 1260 Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
