illustrator (b. 1875) 1946 – William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (b. 1871) 1949 – August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) 1953 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868) 1960 – Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1885) 1967 – Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (b. 1903) 1967 – Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (b. 1896) 1967 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (b. 1896) 1971 – Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907) 1973 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913) 1973 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905) 1975 – Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897) 1976 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905) 1976 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest, historian, and director (b. 1895) 1977 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882) 1982 – Reed Crandall, American illustrator (b. 1917) 1985 – Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (b. 1895) 1987 – Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1900) 1991 – Robert Irving, English soldier and conductor (b. 1913) 1991 – Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1936) 1991 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (b. 1901) 1993 – Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1907) 1996 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1971) 1997 – Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1915) 1997 – Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (b. 1962) 1998 – Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (b. 1922) 1998 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926) 1998 – Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (b. 1918) 1998 – George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (b. 1919) 1999 – Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist and academic (b. 1913) 2000 – Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (b. 1908) 2001 – Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (b. 1926) 2001 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (b. 1921) 2001 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916) 2002 – George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (b. 1907) 2003 – Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (b. 1930) 2004 – Luis E.