(b. 1897) 1962 – E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (b. 1894) 1963 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907) 1967 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893) 1969 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (b. 1871) 1970 – Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891) 1970 – Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (b. 1913) 1970 – Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943) 1974 – Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (b. 1901) 1977 – Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (b. 1885) 1980 – Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1910) 1980 – Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904) 1981 – Alec Waugh, English soldier and author (b. 1898) 1985 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (b. 1909) 1987 – Morton Feldman, American composer and educator (b. 1926) 1988 – Ferit Melen, Turkish civil servant and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1906) 1989 – Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (b. 1953) 1991 – Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1897) 1993 – David Brown, English businessman (b. 1904) 1994 – James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918) 1994 – Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (b. 1924) 1995 – Mary Adshead, English painter (b. 1904) 1996 – Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian painter (b. 1910) 1999 – Emma Bailey, American auctioneer and author (b. 1910) 2000 – Edward Anhalt, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914) 2001 – Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (b. 1919) 2002 – Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919) 2002 – W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (b. 1902) 2003 – Alan Dugan, American soldier and poet (b. 1923) 2003 – Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (b. 1914) 2005 – R. S. R. Fitter, English biologist and author (b. 1913) 2005 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924) 2007 – Carter Albrecht, American keyboard player and guitarist (b. 1973) 2007 – Syd Jackson, New Zealand trade union leader and activist (b. 1939) 2007 – Jane Tomlinson, English runner (b. 1964) 2007 – Steve Fossett, American aviator (b. 1944) 2008 – Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1917) 2010 – Noah Howard, American saxophonist (b. 1943) 2010 – Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1950) 2012 – Griselda Blanco, Colombian drug lord