mycologist, and academic (b. 1778) 1891 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813) 1893 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807) 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842) 1901–present 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (b. 1864) 1907 – Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840) 1909 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1848) 1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and politician, United States Solicitor General (b. 1859) 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (b. 1850) 1934 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (b. 1866) 1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) 1942 – Adele Kurzweil, Austrian Holocaust victim (b. 1925) 1943 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888) 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1863) 1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872) 1950 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876) 1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872) 1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1886) 1959 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883) 1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) 1963 – Edwin Linkomies, Finnish academic, professor and the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894) 1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928) 1975 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (b. 1906) 1975 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913) 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1893) 1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish linguist, poet, and author (b. 1892) 1978 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1892) 1979 – Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1914) 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (b. 1920) 1981 – Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907) 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901) 1985 – Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (b. 1934) 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) 1985 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896) 1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (b. 1893) 1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1901) 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician,