1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864) 1954 – André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880) 1963 – Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1904) 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922) 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) 1969 – Bud Collyer, American game show host (b. 1908) 1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (b. 1868) 1970 – Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894) 1974 – Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914) 1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915) 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) 1981 – Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897) 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901) 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) 1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904) 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) 1990 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905) 1991 – Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) 1991 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949) 1997 – Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932) 1999 – Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916) 2001 – Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (b. 1908) 2002 – Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968) 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902) 2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913) 2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (b. 1932) 2005 – Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1921) 2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (b. 1915) 2006 – Peter Brock, Australian race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1945) 2007 – Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916) 2008 – Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (b. 1927) 2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) 2009 – Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (b. 1924) 2012 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1937) 2012 – Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (b. 1943) 2012 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920) 2013 – Goose Gonsoulin, American football player (b. 1938) 2013 – Don Reichert, Canadian painter and photographer (b. 1932)