This Day In History

Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)

Lounès Matoub, Algerian singer, guitarist, and poet (b. 1956)

Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)

Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat (b. 1914)

Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)

Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (b. 1940)

Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (b. 1962)

Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)