A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (b. 1893) 1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and painter (b. 1932) 1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931) 1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1906) 1984 – Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (b. 1892) 1984 – Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916) 1985 – Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (b. 1903) 1985 – José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911) 1986 – Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1913) 1988 – Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (b. 1908) 1989 – Mikhail Goldstein, Ukrainian violinist and composer (b. 1917) 1990 – Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (b. 1900) 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (b. 1906) 1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) 1994 – Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (b. 1914) 1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908) 1994 – Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (b. 1915) 1995 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (b. 1893) 1996 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (b. 1942) 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (b. 1930) 2000 – Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (b. 1929) 2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor and educator (b. 1915) 2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (b. 1930) 2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress and voice artist (b. 1924) 2002 – Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (b. 1923) 2003 – Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947) 2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925) 2008 – Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1948) 2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (b. 1931) 2008 – Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930) 2008 – Gregory Mcdonald, American author (b. 1937) 2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese director and producer (b. 1973) 2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (b. 1991) 2010 – William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (b. 1930) 2010 – Barbara Holland, American author (b. 1933) 2010 – John Kluge, German-American businessman (b. 1914) 2010 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952) 2011 – Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash Pavol Demitra, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1974) Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player and coach