Famous Deaths on 4th November

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1203 - Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies
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)
1674 - Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
1702 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1708 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1768 - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1830 - Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37
1837 - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
1847 - Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38
1853 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1890 - Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1890 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
1893 - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
1904 - Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1908 - Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
1914 - Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27
1918 - Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
1921 - Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, [A R], US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1931 - Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies
1932 - Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
1935 - Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
1937 - Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61
1939 - Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
1940 - Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60
1942 - Marcel Barger, [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1953 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1954 - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1956 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1957 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1965 - Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77
1967 - June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36
1968 - Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle
1969 - Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66
1973 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75
1974 - Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62
1975 - Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 - Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, dies at 74
1984 - Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1987 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
1992 - Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl), dies of cancer at 49
1993 - Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
1993 - Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29
1993 - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62
1993 - Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey), dies of stroke at 73
1993 - Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
1994 - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
1994 - Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
1994 - Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
1994 - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
1995 - Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64
1995 - Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
1995 - Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1996 - Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72
1997 - George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86), dies
1997 - H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
1997 - Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line), dies at 66
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)
Novelist Michael CrichtonNovelist Michael Crichton (2008) 2008 - Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66
2008 - Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2010 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
2010 - Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2011 - Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
2012 - Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77

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