2004 Graham Roberts, English Actor 2000 Anthony Dwain Lee, actor, dies at 39 1997 Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71 1996 Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58 1996 Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87 1996 William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94 1995 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79 1995 Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96 1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies 1993 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22 1993 Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80 1992 Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57 1991 Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies 1991 G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69 1991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 1991 Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's, Jr. Miss (1972), dies at 37 1991 Sylvia Fine Kaye, U.S. lyricist/composer, dies at 78 1987 Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 1987 Woody Herman, U.S. jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74 1986 Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74 1986 John Braine, British Novelist 1980 Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63 1971 Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74 1970 Baby Huey, James Ramey, vocalist (Baby Huey and Babysitters), dies 1970 Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99 1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49 1968 Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris 1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66 1963 Mart Saar, composer, organist, combined folk music with contemporary sounds, composed choir, solo, piano music, dies at 81 1962 Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48 1959 Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68 1957 Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of San Francisco '49ers, dies while watching a game 1952 William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician 1940 Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 1939 Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 1936 E G Winkler, writer, dies 1929 Furst Bernhard von Bulow, Prime Minister Prussia 1900 - 1909, dies at 80 1929 Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 1927 Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies 1914 Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64 1912 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gregorien), dies at 58 1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and writer (Le chat noir), dies 1900 Max Muller, German Educator 1899 C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1897 Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72 1877 Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45 1875 William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56 1854 James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67 1852 Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57 1841 Sandor Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Boldog Szerelem), dies at 69 1818 Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73 1806 Charlotte Turner Smith, English Poet 1779 Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66 1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68 1755 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65 1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet (Fabeln und Erzahlungen), dies at 46 1740 Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 1704 John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72 1703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1637 Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57 1627 Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies 1589 Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57 1520 Great Worm, Worm Gerlefs Donia, Fries boer/rebel leader, dies 1138 Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, scheefmond, duke of Poland, dies 900 Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies