Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782) 1900 – Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819) 1901–present 1910 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835) 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892) 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858) 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844) 1932 – Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864) 1938 – Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (b. 1877) 1941 – Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875) 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891) 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883) 1948 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887) 1952 – Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890) 1954 – Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897) 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895) 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) 1971 – François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (b. 1907) 1973 – Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) 1973 – Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910) 1977 – Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893) 1978 – Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b. 1947) 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877) 1980 – Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894) 1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928) 1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor and singer (b. 1902) 1984 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895) 1984 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (b. 1943) 1985 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the monokini (b. 1922) 1985 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian banker and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (b. 1910) 1986 – Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (b. 1901) 1986 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1930) 1987 – Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1906) 1990 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator (b. 1892) 1991 – Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909) 1992 – Väinö Linna, Finnish author (b. 1920) 1996 – Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925) 1996 – Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (b. 1919) 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1924) 1999 –