2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83 2003 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 2002 Aileen Wuornos, American Criminal 2002 Charles Guggenheim, American Director 2001 Dagmar, blonde, Broadway Open House, dies at 79 2001 Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74 2000 David Dukes, actor, Gods and Monsters, dies at 55 1999 Morris West, Australian Writer 1997 Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98 1996 Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58 1996 Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69 1996 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83 1996 Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94 1995 Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of Britain 1963 - 1964, dies 1995 John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77 1995 Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1975 - 1976, dies at 84 1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies 1995 Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64 1995 Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83 1994 Andreas van Melsen, philosopher (Evolution and Wosbegeerte), dies at 81 1994 Fred Lebow, U.S. founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer 1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75 1994 Joan Dickson, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, dies at 72 1994 Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80 1993 Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26 1992 Willy Brandt, German chancellor (1969-74), dies 1991 Roy Black, German singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr. Froehlich), dies 1991 Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51 1990 Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83 1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 1988 Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies 1987 Clare A Booth Luce, U.S. diplomat/journalist, dies at 84 1983 Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered 1982 Anna Freud, Austria/English psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86 1978 Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49 1974 Oskar Schindler, Businessman 1972 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72 1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69 1970 Jean Giono, writer, dies 1968 Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed 1967 Andre Maurois, Emile Herzog, French writer (Balzac), dies 1967 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla, executed in Bolivia 1963 Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85 1962 Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80 1960 Howard Glenn, New York Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game 1958 Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope (1939-58), dies at 82 1955 Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65 1954 Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman 1949 Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70 1943 Gerard W. Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies 1943 Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 1943 Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies 1937 August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72 1937 George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73 1934 J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered 1934 King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist) 1918 Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60 1917 Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63 1915 Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73 1912 Millie and Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61 1907 Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66 1906 Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies 1900 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57 1897 John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79 1891 Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83 1841 Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60 1837 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies 1831 Joannis Capodistrias, President of Greece (1829-31), murdered 1821 Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68 1806 Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 1797 Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77 1797 Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna, dies 1781 Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49 1769 Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60 1729 Richard Blackmore, English Poet 1646 Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies 1562 Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies 1436 Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 1423 Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies 1390 Johan I, king of Castilie (1379-90), dies 1326 Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies 1253 Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 1047 Clemens II, Suitger, Pope (1046-47), dies
