Deaths in History on July 4

1754 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author, dies at 74
1761 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela), dies at 71
1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman and poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1780 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Imperial Army field marshal, dies at 67
1787 Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, Marshal of France, dies at 71
1789 Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Brazilian poet, dies at 59
1821 Richard Cosway, English portrait painter, dies at 78

John Adams (1735-1826)

2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

3rd President of the United States (1801-09), dies at 83

James Monroe (1758-1831)

5th US President (1817-25), dies of heart failure and tuberculosis at 73

Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840)

German surgeon who helped create modern plastic Immunologist, dies at 53

1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala), dies at 79
1850 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, dies at 90
1854 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, dies at 72
1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
1857 William L. Marcy, American statesman, dies at 70
1863 Paul Joseph Revere, American grandson of Paul Revere, Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 30
1881 Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1888 Theodor Storm, German judge and author (Immensee, Der Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
1891 Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
1901 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green], American historian and philosopher, dies at 59
1901 Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 55
1902 Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world, dies while meditating at 39
1905 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), dies at 75
1910 Melville Fuller, American 8th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 77
1916 Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917 Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
1922 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, dies at 27
1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
1926 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1931 Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Italian WWI general and fascist, dies at 62
1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
1934 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet, dies at 61

Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), dies at 66

1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, dies at 56
1941 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1943 Władysław Sikorski, Polish World War II general and Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1939-43), killed in a plane crash at 62
1946 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1946 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, dies at 71
1948 Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
1963 Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1966 Dorothy Aldis, American children's writer, dies at 70
1970 Barnett Newman, American abstract expressionist painter (Black Fire I), dies at 65
1971 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, dies of a heart attack at 62
1971 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
1974 Francis Bull, Norwegian writer (Norsk literature historian), dies at 86
1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
1975 Georgette Heyer, English novelist (Friday's Child), dies at 71
1976 Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1976 Yonatan Netanyahu, Israel commander killed freeing Israeli hostages during Operation Entebbe in Uganda, at 30 years
1977 Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1980 Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1986 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), dies at 87
1991 Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
1994 Arthur Berry, English artist and playwright, dies at 69
1994 Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 90
1994 Rupert Davies, English methodist scholar, dies at 84
1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1995 Jacques Berque, French Islamic scholar, dies at 85
1996 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
1997 Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord (Juárez Cartel), dies at 40
1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2000 Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2002 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2004 Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
2008 Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (Senator -D/R-North Carolina, 1973-2003), dies at 86
2008 Thomas M. Disch, American sci-fi author (b. 1940)
2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
2009 Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
2010 Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
2011 Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999), dies at 98