1977 – Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946) 1977 – Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898) 1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917) 1978 – William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896) 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) 1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891) 1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (b. 1894) 1986 – Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (b. 1897) 1987 – John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899) 1990 – Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889) 1991 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (b. 1909) 1992 – Ruth Nelson, American actress 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932) 1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1917) 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909) 1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937) 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933) 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965) 1996 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907) 1997 – Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (b. 1923) 1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922) 2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) 2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932) 2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927) 2007 – Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1934) 2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915) 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1962) 2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) 2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1921) 2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (b. 1910) 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) 2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946) 2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985) 2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (b. 1946) 2012 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1938) 2012 – Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929) 2012 – Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950) 2013 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933) 2013 – Warren Giese, American football