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Died. Major General Oscar von Hindenburg, 77, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg's son, who influenced his father, when President of Germany, to come to terms with Hitler's National Socialists, as a reward was permitted to gobble up land tax-free in East Prussia; in Bad Harzburg, West Germany.
Died. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 79, architect of some of Britain's handsomest buildings (including the restored House of Commons), who, though a Roman Catholic, designed the Anglican Cathedral at Liverpool, over a lifetime watched it go up but did not live to see it finished; in London.
Died. Ernst von Dohnanyi, 82, Hungarian composer whose works (Suite in F-Sharp Minor, Variations on a Nursery Song) hewed closely to the style of 19th century romanticism; in Manhattan.
Died. Betsy, 9, chimpanzee, whose speedily created (a dozen in half an hour) abstract finger paintings were compared with the works of de Kooning, fetched a total price of $4,500, received a stinging rebuke from Soviet Culture: "It is the most shining example of the decay of bourgeois art"; after a broken leg suffered when her mate (purchased, ironically, with the proceeds from sales of her paintings) tumbled on her at the zoo; in Baltimore.