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Died. Bishop Santos Martin Molina, 65, primate of the Spanish Reformed Church, a tiny Episcopal congregation (3,500 members) in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, who fought all his life for religious freedom in Spain—with enough success to say recently that "many of the great difficulties are disappearing"; of stomach cancer; in Madrid.
Died. Hank Gowdy, 76, star catcher for the fabulous 1914 Boston Braves, who defeated Connie Mack's heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series, mainly because of Gowdy's .545 Series batting average, which still stands as a league Series record; of leukemia; in Columbus.
Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany.
Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body.
* "Ungrateful Belgium, you shall not possess my bones."