21st President of Nicaragua (b. 1896) 1958 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1893) 1959 – Bruce Bairnsfather, British humorist and cartoonist (b. 1887) 1960 – John Baillie, Scottish theologian (b. 1886) 1960 – John Goodwin, British soldier and medical practitioner, 14th Governor of Queensland (b. 1871) 1966 – Bernard Gimbel, American businessman (b. 1885) 1967 – Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917) 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886) 1970 – Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (b. 1893) 1972 – Kathleen Clarke, Irish politician and activist (b. 1878) 1973 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907) 1975 – Gladys Skelton, Australian-British poet, novelist and playwright (b. 1885) 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890) 1977 – Robert McKimson, American animator and illustrator (b. 1910) 1977 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-American composer and pianist (b. 1899) 1979 – Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatoguinean politician, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1924) 1979 – Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian composer (b. 1893) 1980 – Harold Alexander Abramson, American physician (b. 1889) 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913) 1981 – Frances Yates, English historian (b. 1899) 1982 – A. L. Lloyd, English folk singer (b. 1908) 1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912) 1983 – Alan Moorehead, Australian war correspondent and author (b. 1910) 1984 – Geater Davis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1946) 1984 – Hal Porter, Australian novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1911) 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917) 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) 1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899) 1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1919) 1991 – Grace Zaring Stone, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1891) 1992 – Jean Aurenche, French screenwriter (b. 1904) 1992 – William H. Sebrell Jr., American nutritionist, 7th Director of the National Institutes of Health (b. 1901) 1992 – Don West, American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer and civil-rights activist (b. 1906) 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1907) 1996 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (b. 1923) 1997 – Sven-Eric Johanson, Swedish composer and organist (b. 1919) 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) 1998 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917) 1998 – C. David