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Deaths on December 04

1137 : Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 : Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1334 : John XXII, [Jacques DuŠze], Pope (316-34), dies
1371 : Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 : Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1514 : Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1576 : Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1603 : Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1642 : Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lu‡on, dies at about 57
1649 : Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1676 : Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
1732 : John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1798 : Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1807 : Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1836 : Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
1884 : Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
1890 : Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1909 : Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1915 : Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1923 : [Auguste-]Maurice BarrŠs, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61
1932 : Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
1933 : Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1935 : Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1935 : Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71
1938 : Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1943 : Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1948 : Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1952 : Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1953 : Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1954 : Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1959 : Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1967 : Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 : Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85
1969 : Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
1971 : Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, dies
1973 : Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1974 : Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
1975 : Hannah Arendt, German/US sociologist, dies at 69 [or Dec 5]
1976 : Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 : Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1977 : Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1978 : Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76
1979 : Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1980 : Francisco S Carneiro, PM of Portugal (1980), dies in air crash
1980 : Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
1983 : Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1984 : John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1985 : Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1986 : Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
1987 : Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
1990 : Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1993 : Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 : Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 : Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 : Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
1994 : Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1994 : Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 : Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 : Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 : Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1995 : Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1995 : Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 : Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 : Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1997 : David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
1997 : Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72

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