I fully support everything said here about this fruitcake, but I think he died a little more recently, like in the mid-eighties.

From the first line of the following link: "L. Ron Hubbard [March 13, 1911 - January 14, 1986] lived an extraordinary and adventurous life."

http://www.egnet.co.uk/HallofFame/hubbard.htm