Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1901) 1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949) 1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1921) 1975 – Larry Parks, American actor and singer (b. 1914) 1975 – François Tombalbaye, Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918) 1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931) 1978 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (b. 1900) 1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956) 1983 – Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934) 1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (b. 1896) 1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (b. 1911) 1988 – Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920) 1992 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923) 1992 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921) 1992 – Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (b. 1968) 1993 – Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909) 1996 – Leila Mackinlay, English author and educator (b. 1910) 1997 – Bryant Bowles, American soldier and activist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (b. 1920) 1997 – Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (b. 1920) 1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (b. 1896) 1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903) 1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (b. 1960) 1999 – Ortvin Sarapu, Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (b. 1924) 1999 – Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (b. 1914) 2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916) 2000 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (b. 1910) 2004 – Caron Keating, Northern Irish television host (b. 1962) 2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924) 2005 – Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912) 2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918) 2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911) 2012 – Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941) 2012 – Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936) 2013 – Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924) 2014 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935) 2014 – Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951) 2015 – Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940) 2015 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet,