December 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 311 – Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244)
• 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)
• 1928 – Ezra Meeker, American pioneer and businessman (b. 1830)
• 1934 – Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1941 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
• 1949 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-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 Fascist (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
• 1984 – Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (b. 1933)
• 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)
• 2004 – Teo Peter, Romanian rock musician and bass player for Compact (b. 1954)
• 2005 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
• 2007 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Robert Zajonc, Polish-American social psychologist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Richard Todd, British actor (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (b.1927)