2002 Joe Cobb, actor, an original Our Gang cast member, dies at 84 2000 Barbara Cartland, romance writer, dies at 98 Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43 Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96 1996 Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78 Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67 Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83 Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91 Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79 Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60 1995 Les Aspin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1995, dies of stroke at 56 Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68 1994 Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84 Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71 1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80 John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65 1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies 1991 Bobby Dale, dies at 92 Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium 1952 - 1954, dies Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 1990 Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state building in 1930, dies Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered 1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92 1987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57 1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70 Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies 1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61 1981 Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies 1980 Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies 1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77 1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77 1973 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79 George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestral leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 1971 Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73 1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (General Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63 1968 Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71 1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75 1954 Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68 1952 John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39 1949 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42 1935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65 1924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold and Loeb, at 14 1920 Eleanor Porter, American Novelist 1919 Victor A D Segalen, Max Anely, French ship's doctor/writer, dies 1897 Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77 1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73 1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53 1844 Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68 1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64 1815 Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 1812 Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38 1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1786 Carl W.Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 1725 Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle 1690 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged 1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher 1542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R 1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 1481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies 1254 Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
