This Day In History

Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)

Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (b. 1926)

Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian composer (b. 1916)

Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894)

Olave Baden-Powell, English wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (b. 1889)

Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (b. 1909)

Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)

Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)