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Died. Pedro Albizu Campos, 73, fanatic Puerto Rican nationalist whose followers turned to violence in the 1930s, attempted to assassinate President Truman in 1950, staging a simultaneous, two-day revolt in which they tried to kill Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, and in 1954 shot up the U.S. House of Representatives and wounded five Congressmen, earning their Harvard-educated leader a total of 21 years in jail (he was twice pardoned by Muñoz on medical grounds); of pneumonia and kidney disease; in San Juan.
Died. Owen Vincent ("Owney") Madden, 73, British-born, bigtime, Prohibition-era gangster, crony of Legs Diamond, Dutch Schultz and Frank Costello (and of Movie Actor George Raft, who started out as Owney's chauffeur), the seemingly indestructible leader of Manhattan's Gopher Gang, who manufactured 300,000 gallons of bootleg beer a day, used a fleet of ships to smuggle in liquor from abroad, absorbed so many bullets from rival mobsters that police nicknamed him "Clay Pigeon," was charged with six killings but served time (eight years) for only one, retiring after his release from Sing Sing in 1933 to Hot Springs, Ark., where he lived next door to the police chief; of emphysema; in Hot Springs.
Died. Lord Ernest Walter Hives, 79, engineer and former (1950-57) board chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd., who multiplied its earnings from the carriage trade by making his company the world's biggest supplier of jet aircraft engines, jovially referred to Rolls as "that little garage in Derby," and drove himself around in a tiny Hillman Minx; following a stroke two years ago that left him in a coma; in London.
Died. Louise Dresser, 82, oldtime vaudeville singing star, later Will Rogers' long-suffered "wife" in seven films of the early '30s (State Fair, Lightnin'), who began her career in 1900 with an assist from Novelist Theodore Dreiser's balladeer brother Paul, quit song for the silents in 1923, assisted in a dozen Hollywood flops before finally winning acclaim in 1925 as the drink-sodden Goose Woman, retiring from the screen in a huff twelve years later when a columnist revealed that she was partially deaf; following abdominal surgery; in Woodland Hills, Calif.