Happy Birthday RIP Luciano Pavarotti(1935–2007) ; Christopher Wallace–74 Susan Anton–71 Christopher Botti–59 Hugh Jackman–53 Adam Rich–53 Joshua Hutcherson–29 ; 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he is brutally beaten, suffers severe head trauma, and is robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie Wyoming. When he was found there was blood caked on his entire face except where tears had steamed down his cheeks. The two men that murdered him are serving double life sentences without parole in separate facilities.