and playwright (b. 1880) 1943 – Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882) 1944 – Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901) 1945 – Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895) 1948 – Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892) 1949 – Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885) 1962 – Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880) 1962 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912) 1963 – Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903) 1966 – Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan 1967 – Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898) 1971 – Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915) 1971 – Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886) 1979 – David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912) 1980 – Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904) 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) 1982 – Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915) 1984 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921) 1986 – Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910) 1988 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) 1989 – Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1915) 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905) 1993 – Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907) 1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908) 1998 – William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912) 1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925) 1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (b. 1944) 2000 – Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925) 2001 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951) 2002 – Damon Knight, American author and critic (b. 1922) 2002 – Byron White, American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917) 2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1934) 2007 – Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920) 2008 – Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921) 2009 – Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924) 2009 – László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907) 2009 – Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947) 2010 – Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939) 2010 – Michael Pataki, American