Famous Deaths
- Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies
- G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69
- George Treweeke, Australian Rugby League second rower (7 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 86
- John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
- Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
- Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78