1848) 1932 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883) 1933 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1863) 1945 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900) 1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867) 1950 – Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895) 1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870) 1978 – Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902) 1980 – Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907) 1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902) 1983 – Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903) 1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902) 1985 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (b. 1900) 1985 – Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921) 1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (b. 1907) 1987 – Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (b. 1905) 1988 – Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1917) 1988 – Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891) 1989 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) 1990 – Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928) 1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913) 1995 – Jane Kenyon, American poet and author (b. 1947) 1996 – Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (b. 1927) 1996 – Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (b. 1908) 1999 – Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (b. 1926) 2003 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925) 2005 – Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906) 2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915) 2005 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924) 2006 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919) 2006 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921) 2007 – Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (b. 1938) 2009 – Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (b. 1914) 2010 – Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (b. 1943) 2012 – George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (b. 1927) 2013 – Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) 2013 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (b. 1930) 2013 – Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936) 2014 – Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1926) 2015 – Dick Balharry, Scottish environmentalist and photographer (b. 1937) 2017 – Donna Leanne Williams, Australian writer, artist, and activist