E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882) 1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891) 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883) 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886) 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (b. 1911) 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902) 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903) 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor (b. 1913) 1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897) 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (b. 1893) 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909) 1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904) 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911) 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898) 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899) 1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922) 1987 – John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1923) 1989 – Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (b. 1911) 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904) 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) 1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (b. 1901) 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931) 1994 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (b. 1923) 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918) 1999 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1957) 1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (b. 1961) 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930) 2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984) 2003 – Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904) 2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928) 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919) 2005 – Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925) 2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926) 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917) 2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921) 2008 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (b. 1938) 2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920) 2010 – Mariam