2004 Caitlin Clarke, actress/teacher, Dragonslayer, dies at 52 2003 Edward Teller, scientist/professor, The father of the H-bomb, dies at 95 2003 Larry Hovis, actor/teacher, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 67 1999 Ruth Roman, actress, dies at 75 1997 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48 1997 Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70 1996 Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84 1996 Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67 1996 Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82 1996 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66 1996 William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84 1995 Jamie L. Whitten, Representative-D-Mississippi 1941 - 1995 1994 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85 1994 Patrick O'Neal, U.S. actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66 1993 David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies 1993 Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74 1991 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies 1991 John Lawrence, doctor, dies 1991 Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies 1991 Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31 1990 Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46 1989 Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose 1987 Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered 1984 Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77 1984 Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47 1982 Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen, U.S., detective writer, dies at 76 1981 Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs and 0-13), dies 1981 Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist 1979 Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73 1978 Jack L Warner, U.S. movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86) 1977 John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73 1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader 1975 Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97 1975 John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61 1975 Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85 1974 Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55 1973 Samuel N Behrman, U.S. stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80 1971 Billy Gilbert, U.S. actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76 1969 Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65 1967 Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69 1966 Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76 1966 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85 1966 Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61 1965 Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90 1964 Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82 1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68 1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies 1962 Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82 1960 Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75 1959 Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84 1959 O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash 1958 Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies 1957 Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84 1954 Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49 1952 Joseph Allen Sr, dies 1951 Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56 1951 Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74 1948 James Baskett, dies 1942 Zsigmond Moricz, Hungarians writer (Rozsa Sandor), dies at 63 1941 Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85 1931 Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86 1926 David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident 1926 Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident 1913 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies 1912 Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, dies at 59 1909 Edward H. Harriman, American Businessman 1902 Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53 1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36 1901 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies 1898 Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies 1888 John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71 1878 Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18 1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1870 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American Lawyer 1866 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, dies at 65 1841 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63 1832 Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39 1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1815 John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 1810 Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78 1803 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32 1770 Bernard S Albinus, Weiss, German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 1770 Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 1713 Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies 1683 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded 1573 Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies 1513 James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40 1488 Francois II of Bretagne, dies 1438 Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies 1087 William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
