Picon, American actress (b. 1898) 1992 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918) 1993 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974) 1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967) 1995 – Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (b. 1915) 1995 – Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1913) 1995 – Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (b. 1904) 1996 – Charlene Holt, American actress (b. 1928) 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926) 1998 – Frederick Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (b. 1911) 1998 – Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947) 1999 – Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912) 2000 – Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (b. 1909) 2000 – Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914) 2001 – Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910) 2002 – Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967) 2002 – Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917) 2003 – Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944) 2004 – Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938) 2004 – Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915) 2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936) 2005 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) 2005 – Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913) 2005 – Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917) 2006 – Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927) 2006 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) 2006 – Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958) 2006 – Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923) 2007 – Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923) 2007 – Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908) 2007 – Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922) 2007 – Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956) 2007 – Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912) 2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923) 2009 – I. J. Good, British mathematician (b. 1916) 2010 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1935) 2011 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist (b. 1925) 2011 – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (b. 1937) 2012 – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (b. 1935) 2012 – Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer 2012 – Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (b. 1923) 2012 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (b. 1939) 2012 – Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian