Welcome to Today in History for Thursday, September 4, 2008.
Famous Deaths for Yesterday in History ...
0422 - Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies 0454 - Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies 1085 - Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies 1154 - Gilbert de la Porr‚e, French philosopher/bishop of Poiters, dies 1553 - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake 1571 - Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered 1588 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, dies at 87 1644 - John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87 1709 - Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies 1759 - Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80 1784 - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies 1828 - Cornelis Stevens, Belgian RC foreman/polemist, dies at 80 1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82 1853 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71 1903 - Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53 1905 - Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1907 - Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64 1907 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64 1918 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) 1922 - Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74 1937 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer, dies at 29 1938 - Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73 1944 - Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1946 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79 1960 - Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71 1963 - Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 1964 - W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 1970 - James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39 1972 - Alan Kippax, cricketer (1st-class batting average 67), dies 1974 - Creighton W Abrams, US general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 1974 - Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75 1975 - Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60 1979 - Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76 1980 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 1981 - Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59 1985 - Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93 1985 - George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85 1989 - Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86 1990 - Henry Faas, [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies 1990 - Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91 1991 - Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65 1991 - Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies 1991 - Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car 1991 - Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77 1992 - John van Dreelen, [Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg], actor (Topaz), dies 1993 - Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies 1993 - Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50 1993 - Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered 1994 - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64 1994 - Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66 1995 - Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45 1995 - Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90 1995 - John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42 1995 - William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78 1996 - Sam Cook, cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies 1997 - Belle Stewart, singer, dies at 91
