American baseball player and poet (b. 1953) 1998 – Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (b. 1912) 2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (b. 1966) 2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1913) 2003 – Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (b. 1935) 2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) 2003 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1944) 2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936) 2004 – Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935) 2004 – Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915) 2008 – J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (b. 1926) 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1941) 2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971) 2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943) 2012 – Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922) 2012 – Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917) 2012 – Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1948) 2012 – Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (b. 1913) 2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928) 2012 – Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956) 2013 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942) 2014 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940) 2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) 2015 – Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (b. 1941) 2015 – Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951) 2015 – Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (b. 1947) 2017 – Monty Hall, American game show host (b. 1921) 2017 – Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966) 2018 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945) 2018 – Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (b. 1942) 2018 – Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (b. 1925) 2019 – Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (b. 1967) 2021 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (b. 1931) Holidays and observances Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe) Birth of Morelos (Mexico) Blasphemy Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression Boy's Day (Poland) Christian feast day: