21st President of Liberia (b. 1951) 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (b. 1930) 1993 – Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (b. 1914) 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920) 1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927) 1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (b. 1911) 1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927) 1997 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and author (b. 1910) 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) 1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943) 1998 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951) 1999 – Arie de Vroet, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1918) 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946) 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922) 2000 – Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (b. 1930) 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (b. 1953) 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908) 2003 – Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1916) 2004 – Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (b. 1930) 2004 – Caitlin Clarke, American actress (b. 1952) 2006 – Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1927) 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (b. 1955) 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979) 2006 – William Bernard Ziff Jr., American businessman, founded Ziff Davis (b. 1930) 2012 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (b. 1921) 2012 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (b. 1989) 2012 – Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (b. 1920) 2012 – Ron Tindall, English footballer and manager (b. 1935) 2013 – Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (b. 1952) 2013 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1934) 2013 – Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (b. 1936) 2014 – Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1918) 2014 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930) 2014 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (b. 1954) 2015 – Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and songwriter (b. 1922) 2015 – Einar H. Ingman Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929) 2015 – K. Kunaratnam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1934) Holidays and observances Christian feast day: Charles Lowder (Church of England) Ciarán of Clonmacnoise Constance, Nun, and her Companions (Episcopal Church)