mathematician and physicist (b. 1622) 1756 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688) 1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705) 1776 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755) 1777 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699) 1828 – Shaka Zulu, Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (b. 1787) 1852 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783) 1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (b. 1801) 1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1801) 1881 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1831) 1901–present 1914 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (b. 1886) 1919 – Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (b. 1848) 1933 – Sime Silverman, American journalist and newspaper publisher (b. 1873) 1934 – Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge (b. 1876) 1935 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1858) 1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865) 1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) 1957 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) 1961 – Marion Davies, American actress and comedian (b. 1897) 1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909) 1973 – Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893) 1979 – Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (b. 1903) 1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893) 1987 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908) 1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1922) 1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914) 1989 – Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929) 1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (b. 1888) 1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948) 1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903) 1994 – Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914) 1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1924) 1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (b. 1914) 1999 – George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927) 2000 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916) 2001 – Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)