Post, American pilot (b. 1898) 1935 – Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879) 1935 – Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863) 1936 – Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) 1942 – Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892) 1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887) 1945 – Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923) 1951 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882) 1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875) 1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940) 1967 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898) 1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887) 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920) 1975 – Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913) 1975 – Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (b. 1942) 1981 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895) 1981 – Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896) 1982 – Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905) 1982 – Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (b. 1954) 1982 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) 1989 – Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (b. 1904) 1989 – Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1897) 1990 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (b. 1962) 1992 – Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (b. 1947) 1994 – Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929) 1995 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and actor (b. 1906) 1997 – Ida Gerhardt, Dutch poet and educator (b. 1905) 1999 – Hugh Casson, English architect and interior designer (b. 1910) 2000 – Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (b. 1915) 2001 – Yavuz Çetin, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1970) 2001 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (b. 1972) 2001 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (b. 1919) 2004 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) 2004 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1941) 2005 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist and academic (b. 1927) 2006 – Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand queen (b. 1931) 2006 – Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955) 2006 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist and academic (b. 1937) 2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1923) 2007