This Day In History

Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (b. 1905)

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1920)

Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)

Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)

Seretse Khama, Botswana politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)

Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)

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)