2003 Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist 2002 LaWanda Page, actress, Sanford and Son, dies at 81 2000 Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74 1999 Harry Crane, writer, The Honeymooners, dies at 85 1996 Clive Beadon, airman, dies at 77 1996 Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80 1996 Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59 1995 Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75 1994 David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57 1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76 1992 Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64 1992 Theodore S. Weiss, Representative-D-New York 1977 - 1992 1991 Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer 1990 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies 1988 Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer 1985 John Holt, Australian Statesman 1984 Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident 1982 Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb 1982 Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52 1982 John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49 1981 Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81 1981 [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack 1979 Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80 1974 Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66 1974 Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95 1974 Vera Vague, Barbara Jo Allen, actress 'Follow the Leader', dies at 70 1974 Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71 1972 Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70 1970 Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 1969 James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48 1967 Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47 1966 Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66 1966 Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63 1964 Mary Howe, composer, pianist, studied with Nadia Boulanger, famous works include 'Chain Gang Song', 'Sand, Stars, Rock', dies at 82 1962 Marcel Delannoy, composer, dies at 64 1959 Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45 1955 F C Weiskopf, writer, dies 1937 Tomas G. Masaryk, philosopher/president of Czechoslovakian 1918 - 1935, dies at 87 1936 Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58 1932 Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53 1927 Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel 1926 Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74 1916 Josiah Royce, U.S. philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies 1911 Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov 1905 Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo Governor (1890-98), die 1902 Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76 1901 President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted 1899 Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (New York City) 1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies 1895 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57 1887 Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies 1886 Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84 1872 Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48 1862 Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 1862 Samuel Garland, Jr., U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1861 Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83 1852 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83 1852 James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62 1844 Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78 1836 Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President, dies 1836 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60 1819 Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies 1788 John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 1788 Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56 1763 Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40 1759 Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 1750 Carl T Pachelbel, U.S. organist/composer 1743 Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59 1712 Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies 1693 Aert Jansz van Nes, Young boer Jaep, lt-admiral, dies at 67 1646 Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies 1646 Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies 1645 Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65 1637 Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies 1538 Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg and Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies 1523 Adrian VI, Adriaan F Bieyens, only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64 1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 1146 Imad ad-Din Zengi, Governor of Basra, murdered 891 Stephen V, VI, Italian Pope (885-91), dies 407 Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies 258 Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58
