1931) 1972 – Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906) 1972 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885) 1973 – Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908) 1978 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907) 1980 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960) 1981 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894) 1981 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910) 1982 – Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904) 1984 – Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904) 1984 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894) 1985 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899) 1988 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) 1988 – Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945) 1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898) 1991 – Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920) 1992 – John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904) 1994 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) 1994 – Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912) 1996 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912) 1999 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918) 2002 – Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) 2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929) 2004 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) 2004 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918) 2006 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949) 2007 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913) 2010 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923) 2012 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945) 2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923) 2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919) 2013 – Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928) 2014 – Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934) 2014 – George V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1930) 2015 – Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932) 2016 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922) 2018 – Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975) 2019 – Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1935) 2020 – Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (b. 1933) 2020 – Angela Buxton, British tennis player (b. 1934)