Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
1845 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
1995 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
1998 - Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
2007 - James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)