1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) 1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850) 1909 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836) 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839) 1915 – Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837) 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839) 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874) 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827) 1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856) 1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865) 1940 – Jack McNeela, Irish hunger striker 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878) 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886) 1952 – Steve Conway, British singer (b. 1921) 1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875) 1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894) 1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882) 1966 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1881) 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) 1971 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913) 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899) 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (b. 1901) 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907) 1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905) 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917) 1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959) 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941) 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919) 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918) 2002 – Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920) 2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925) 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920) 2004 – Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922) 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921) 2007 –