1894) 1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1884) 1937 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, third Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870) 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (b. 1874) 1940 – Tony D'Arcy, Irish Republican hunger striker 1941 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (b. 1880) 1942 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878) 1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862) 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and engineer (b. 1884) 1947 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900) 1950 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1905) 1950 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (b. 1867) 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish engineer and politician (b. 1872) 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920) 1960 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1884) 1961 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912) 1965 – Francis Balfour, English soldier and colonial administrator (b. 1884) 1965 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor, comedian, brother of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1885) 1966 – Eric Lambert, Australian author (b. 1918) 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893) 1968 – Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885) 1969 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904) 1970 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892) 1970 – Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897) 1972 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) 1972 – Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894) 1973 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929) 1978 – Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898) 1980 – Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898) 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924) 1988 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (b. 1935) 1988 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954) 1989 – Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899) 1989 – Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915) 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940) 1989 – Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer, manager and president (b. 1910) 1991 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908) 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)