Deaths

Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)

Leslie Groves, American general (b. 1896)

Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American mobster (b. 1899)

Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)

Photios Kontoglou, Greek painter (b. 1895)

Joy Gresham, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)

Ruth Ellis, Welsh murderer (b. 1926)