2003 Rand Brooks, actor/businessman, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 84 2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75 1998 Cary Middlecoff, professional golfer with what is currently known as the PGA Tour in the 1940s, University of Mississippi's first golf All-American 1939, dies in Memphis, Tennessee at age 77 1996 Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98 1996 Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63 1996 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69 1996 Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86 1995 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32 1995 Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93 1994 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88 1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71 1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86 1993 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89 1992 Morris Carnovsky, U.S. actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94 1991 Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies) 1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30 1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies 1989 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator 1988 Leonor Sullivan, Representative-D-Missouri 1955 - 1977, dies at 86 1986 Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63 1984 Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73 1983 Henry M. Jackson, Senator-D-Washington 1941 - 1983, dies at 71 of an aortic aneurysm 1983 Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies 1983 Henry M. Jackson, American Politician 1982 Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75 1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76 1981 Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 1981 Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies 1981 Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32 1979 Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81 1978 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33 1977 Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76 1972 May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84 1970 Francois Mauriac, writer, dies 1969 Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71 1969 William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46 1968 Granville English, composer, dies at 69 1967 Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76 1967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80 1964 George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76 1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. 1963 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73 1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51 1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80 1959 Jack Norworth, American Musician 1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61 1951 Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German drawer/painter, dies at 38 1948 Charles A. Beard, American Historian 1945 Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57 1941 Benjamin Dwight, U.S. tennis championship umpire, dies 1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo 1912 Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62 1912 Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37 1903 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies 1896 Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62 1880 Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75 1867 Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71 1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia 1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48 1838 William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68 1814 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53 1801 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies 1780 Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69 1777 Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55 1731 Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50 1729 Richard Steele, British Dramatist 1715 Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76 1680 Johan Georg II, ruler of Saxon (1656-80), dies at 67 1671 Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies 1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown) 1406 Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84 1215 Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht 1159 Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope (1154-59), dies 1067 Boudouin V, earl of Flanders/guardian of king of France, dies