Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Emperor of the Nicaea (b. circa 1192).
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 - Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (b. 1882)
1930 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician (b. 1911)
1974 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1980 - Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1997 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (b. 1924)
1999 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 - Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)

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