– Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer and rebel commander. Died as a result of forced feeding while on hunger strike. (b. 1885) 1918 – Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857) 1926 – Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862) 1928 – Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863) 1929 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879) 1933 – Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (b. 1885) 1938 – Lev Zadov, Ukrainian intelligence agent (b. 1893) 1939 – Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885) 1941 – Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867) 1943 – Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880) 1946 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (b. 1879) 1955 – Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (b. 1909) 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1878) 1960 – Emily Post, American author and educator (b. 1873) 1961 – Frank Fay, American actor and singer (b. 1897) 1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891) 1968 – Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903) 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (b. 1898) 1971 – Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician (b. 1886) 1980 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1948) 1980 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895) 1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883) 1983 – Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901) 1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1897) 1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (b. 1917) 1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1909) 1986 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) 1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (b. 1909) 1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906) 1987 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (b. 1905) 1988 – Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (b. 1937) 1988 – Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (b. 1909) 1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897) 1991 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (b. 1913) 1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (b. 1912) 1992 – Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (b. 1961) 1995 – Dave Bowen,