1901–present 1905 – Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827) 1910 – Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835) 1911 – Mahboob Ali Khan, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State (b.1866) 1919 – Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875) 1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849) 1940 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882) 1940 – Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863) 1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879) 1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) 1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881) 1951 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905) 1957 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879) 1957 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) 1957 – Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888) 1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886) 1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893) 1968 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1893) 1971 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941) 1974 – Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937) 1974 – Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894) 1978 – Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907) 1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910) 1981 – Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885) 1983 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932) 1988 – Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963) 1988 – Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912) 1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945) 1993 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938) 1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) 1995 – Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919) 1996 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (b. 1911) 2000 – Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948) 2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, third Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930) 2000 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928) 2001 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927) 2003 – John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920) 2003 – Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b.