1939) 1977 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904) 1979 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907) 1979 – Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909) 1983 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896) 1987 – Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924) 1987 – Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician (b. 1894) 1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929) 1988 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924) 1988 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914) 1988 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935) 1990 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918) 1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920) 1994 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901) 1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902) 1995 – Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902) 1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933) 1998 – Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940) 1998 – Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950) 2000 – Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929) 2004 – Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (b. 1925) 2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) 2006 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929) 2007 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913) 2007 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982) 2008 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1926) 2010 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) 2012 – Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915) 2012 – Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933) 2012 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945) 2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) 2013 – Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938) 2013 – Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927) 2013 – John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929) 2013 – Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924) 2013 – Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912) 2014 – Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937) 2014 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921) 2014 – Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917) 2014 – Miodrag