January • January 1 •
Aldo Aimi, Italian footballer (b. 1906) •
Adolph Deutsch, British-born American composer (b. 1897) •
Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891) •
Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909) • January 3 •
Joy Adamson, Austrian conservationist, author of Born Free (b. 1910) •
Amos Milburn, American R&B singer and pianist (b. 1927) •
Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (b. 1898) •
Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist and champion of the
Tour de France (b. 1892) • January 4 –
Tobie Goedewaagen, Dutch philosopher and Nazi collaborator (b. 1895) • January 6 •
Antonio Bilbao La Vieja, Argentine international rugby union footballer (b. 1892) •
Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935) •
Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and original member of the girl group
the Marvelettes (b. 1944) • January 7 •
Irene Beasley, American singer (b. 1904) •
Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908) •
Larry Williams, American rhythm and blues and
rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1935) •
Sarah Selby, American actress (b.1905) • January 8 •
John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907) •
Oscar Ewing, American lawyer, social reformer, and politician (b. 1889) • January 9 –
Gaetano Belloni, Italian professional road racing cyclist (b. 1892) • January 10 –
George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894) • January 11 •
Valentine Blomfield, Major-General in the British Army (b. 1898) •
Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913) • January 12 –
Finn Ronne, Norwegian-born American explorer (b. 1899) • January 13 •
Eric Aldwinckle, designer, illustrator and official Second World War artist (b. 1909) •
Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901) • January 14 –
Robert Ardrey, American playwright, screenwriter and science writer (b. 1908) • January 17 –
Barbara Britton, American film and television actress (b. 1920) • January 18 – Sir
Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904) • January 19 •
Kwak Sang-hoon, Korean politician, independence activist •
Richard Franko Goldman, conductor, educator, author, music critic, and composer (b. 1910) •
William O. Douglas, American jurist who served as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975 (b. 1898) • January 21 –
Clyde Barnhart, American Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates (b. 1895) • January 22 –
Teresa Noce, Italian labour leader, activist and journalist (b.
1900) • January 23 •
Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887) •
Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (b. 1888) •
Babs Gonzales, American
bebop vocalist, poet, and self-published author (b. 1919) • c. January 24 –
Terry Anderson, English footballer, predominantly for Norwich City (b. 1944) • January 25 –
Queenie Watts, English actress and an occasional singer, (b. 1923) • January 26 –
Lynn Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (b. 1911) • January 27 –
Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903) • January 28 •
Kroger Babb, American film producer and showman (b. 1906) •
Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926) • January 29 •
Ali Adbo, Iranian boxer and founder of Persepolis F.C. (b. 1928) •
Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893) • January 30 –
Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918) • January 31 •
Jose Vasquez Aguilar, first Filipino recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (b. 1900) •
Lady Evelyn Beauchamp, first woman in modern times to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun (b. 1901) •
Jacobus Duminy, South African academic who became principal and vice-chancellor of the
University of Cape Town (b. 1897) • January unknown date •
Don Albert, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1900) •
Nureddine Rifai, 25th
Prime Minister of Lebanon (b.
1899)
February • February 1 –
Jack Bailey, American actor and daytime game show host (b. 1907) • February 2 •
William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1911) •
Toshiko Yuasa, first Japanese female physicist,
nuclear physicist who worked in France • February 3 •
Marnie Bassett, Australian historian, biographer and travel writer (b. 1889) •
Hanna Rovina, Russian-Israeli actress (b. 1888) • February 4 –
Stojan Aralica, Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883) • February 5 –
Nachman Aronszajn, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1907) • February 6 •
Sir William Abraham, British Army officer (b. 1887) •
Albert Kotin, Russian-born American painter (b. 1907) • February 7 •
Rudolf Bosshard, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1890) •
Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904) •
Sir Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890) • February 8 •
Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen, titular Princess consort of Lippe (b. 1886) •
Erwin Friedrich Baumann, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1890) •
Isadora Bennett, American theater manager and modern dance publicity agent (b. 1900) •
Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936) •
Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902) • February 9 •
Charles Fowlkes, American baritone saxophonist, member of the
Count Basie Orchestra (b. 1916) •
Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900) • February 10 –
Wally Wales, American film actor who specialized in westerns (b. 1895) • February 11 –
R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1884) • February 12 –
Samuel D. Berger, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Korea (b. 1911) • February 13 •
David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931) •
Marian Rejewski,
Polish mathematician and
cryptologist (b. 1905) • February 14 •
Kitsuju Ayabe, general in Imperial Japanese Army in World War II (b. 1894) •
Marie Besnard, French accused and acquitted serial poisoner (b. 1896) •
Victor Gruen, Austrian-American architect and inventor of the shopping mall (b. 1903) • February 15 –
Sohn Won-yil, Korean naval vice admiral and Chief of Naval Operations • February 16 –
Erich Hückel, German physicist and physical chemist (b. 1896) • February 17 •
Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903) •
Jerry Fielding, American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and
film composer (b.1922) • February 19 •
Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902) •
Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian rock singer (
AC/DC) (b. 1946) • February 20 •
Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895) •
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American writer and socialite (b. 1884) • February 21 •
Alfred Andersch, German writer, publisher, and radio editor (b. 1914) •
Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924) •
Gordon Boyd, Scotland international rugby union player (b. 1905) •
Chester Lauck, comic actor who played the character of Lum Edwards on the American radio comedy,
Lum and Abner (b. 1902) • February 22 •
Sadaaki Akamatsu, Japanese ace fighter pilot (b. 1910) •
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886) •
Dick Kallman, American actor (b. 1933) • February 23 –
Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889) • February 24 –
Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893) • February 26 –
Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898) • February 28 –
Ian Peebles,
cricketer who played for
Oxford University,
Middlesex,
Scotland and
England; later becoming a journalist on
The Sunday Times (b. 1908) • February 29 –
Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and army general, acting Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)
March • March 1 •
Emmett Ashford, first African-American Major League Baseball umpire (b. 1914) •
Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and owner of model agency (b. 1939) •
Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907) • March 2 –
Roland Armontel, French actor (b. 1901) • March 4 •
Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892) •
Vakhtang Ananyan, Armenian writer and journalist (b. 1905) • March 5 –
Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912) • March 9 •
Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1899) •
Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897) • March 10 •
José Américo de Almeida, Brazilian writer, a politician, lawyer and teacher (b. 1887) •
Herman Tarnower, American
cardiologist and co-author of a bestselling diet book; would later be murdered by his wife (b. 1910) •
March 12 •
Gerritdina Benders-Letteboer, member of the Dutch Resistance (b. 1909) •
Roland Symonette, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (b. 1898) • March 14 •
Henk Blomvliet, Dutch footballer, represented the Netherlands) (b. 1911) •
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter (b. 1928) •
Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902) •
Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950) •
Allard Lowenstein, American Democratic politician; served as a
U.S. representative for the
5th congressional district of
Nassau County, New York. (b. 1929) • March 15 •
Charles Austin (rugby union), American rugby union player, official, and coach (b. 1892) •
Octávio Brandão, Brazilian pharmacist, politician and activist (b. 1896) • March 17 •
Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1911) •
Rudolf George Escher, Dutch composer and music theorist (b. 1912) • March 18 •
Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900) •
Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (b. 1898) •
Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b.
1895) •
Herman Griffith,
West Indian cricketer; played in West Indies' first
Test match in their
inaugural Test tour of England; was one of the leading bowlers on that tour (b.1893) • March 19 –
Millen Brand, American writer and poet (b. 1906) • March 21 –
Marcel Boussac, thoroughbred race horse breeder (b. 1889) • March 23 –
S. W. Alexander, British journalist and political activist (b. 1895) • March 24 •
John Barrie, English actor (b. 1917) •
Eric Bensted, Australian first-class cricketer (b. 1901) •
Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893) •
Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917) • March 25 •
Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901) •
Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902) •
Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) • March 26 –
Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915) • March 28 •
Fenton Atkinson, British High Court judge, oversaw the trial of the Moors murderers (b. 1906) •
Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918) •
David Sharpe, American actor and stunt performer (b. 1910) •
Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (b. 1888) • March 31 •
Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905) •
Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
April • April 2 –
Dick Howorth, English cricketer (b. 1909) • April 3 •
Archie Benn, Australian Federal Senator (b. 1897) •
Herbert Bowman, American tennis player (b. 1897) •
Luella Gear, American actress (b. 1897) • April 4 –
Rita Romilly Benson, American stage actress and acting teacher (b. 1900) • April 6 –
Antony Balch, English film director and distributor (b. 1937) • April 8 –
Wilhelm Arwe, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1898) • April 9 –
Kim Jae-gyu, Korean politician, soldier (b. 1926) • April 10 –
Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919) • April 11 •
Charley Borah, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905) •
Florence Lake, American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the
Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts (1904) • April 12 •
Ruggero Bonomi, Italian Air Force general during the Spanish Civil War and World War II (b. 1898) •
William Tolbert, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913) • April 13 –
Frederick D. Alexander, American businessman, civil rights activist, and politician, first African American to serve on Charlotte City Council since the 1890s (b. 1910) • April 14 –
Tom Fadden, American actor; performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career. • April 15 •
Gerty Archimède, Guadeloupe politician, first female lawyer to pass the Guadeloupe Bar (b. 1909) •
Raymond Bailey, American actor comedian, best known as Milburn Drysdale in The Beverly Hillbillies (b. 1904) •
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (b. 1905) •
Marshall Reed, American actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978 (b. 1917) • April 19 •
Tony Beckley, English actor (b. 1929) •
Charles Seel, American actor (b. 1897) •
Ethel Wilson, Canadian writer of short stories and novels (b. 1888) • April 20 •
Günther Ballier, German actor (b. 1900) •
Charles Stanley Blair, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (b. 1927) •
Helmut Käutner, German film director (b. 1908) •
Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892) • April 21 •
Dante Agostini, Italian-born French drummer (b. 1921) •
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928) •
Aleksandr Oparin, Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the
origin of life; also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and
enzyme reactions in
plant cells (1894) • April 22 •
Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907) •
Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902) • April 24 •
James Buis, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Kota Kinabalu (b. 1902) •
Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904) • April 25 –
Katia Mann, American actress and singer who performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems • April 26 –
Dame Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893) • April 27 –
Mario Bava, Italian director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter (b. 1914) • April 28 •
Andrija Anković, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1937) •
Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (b.
1895) • April 29 –
Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899) • April 30 •
Harold Robert Aaron, United States Army lieutenant general (b. 1921) •
Arthur Banner, English footballer (b. 1918) •
Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist, politician and statesman (b. 1898)
May • May 2 •
Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born Australian cricketer (b. 1891) •
George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908) •
Alioune Diop, Senegalese writer and editor, founder of the journal
Présence Africaine, and a central figure in the
Négritude movement (b. 1910) • May 4 •
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) •
Kay Hammond, English stage and film actress (b. 1909) •
Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, Scottish pianist and composer • May 5 –
Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897) • May 6 –
María Luisa Bombal, Chilean novelist and poet (b. 1910) • May 7 –
Sigval Bergesen the Younger, Norwegian shipping magnate (b. 1893) • May 8 –
Sir Geoffrey Baker, British field marshal, Chief of the General Staff • May 12 –
Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910) • May 13 –
Elliott Arnold, American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter (b. 1912) • May 14 •
Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887] •
Fatmawati, inaugural First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923) •
Wilhelm Weismann, German composer and
musicologist (b. 1900) •
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912) • May 15 –
Lela Bliss, American actress (b. 1896) • May 16 –
Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922) • May 17 •
Leo A. Berg, American politician, Mayor of Akron, Ohio (b. 1907) •
Ernst Blum, German international footballer (b. 1904) • May 18 •
Reid Blackburn, American photojournalist, killed in the
1980 volcanic eruption (b. 1952) •
Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956) •
David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) •
Harry R. Truman, American businessman, bootlegger and prospector (b. 1896) • May 21 –
Ida Kamińska, Polish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899) • May 26 –
Franz Bachelin, German
art director (b. 1895) • May 28 –
Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895) • May 30 –
Otome Amatsu, Japanese dancer and actress (b. 1905)
June • June 1 –
Rube Marquard, American
Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1886) • June 3 •
Naum Akhiezer, Jewish-Soviet mathematician (b. 1901) •
Fred Beir, American film and television actor (b. 1927) • June 5 •
Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer and politician (b. 1907 •
Margret Dünser, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1926) • June 6 •
Ruth Aarons, US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager (b. 1918) •
Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor (b. 1899) • June 7 •
Richard Bonelli, American operatic baritone (b. 1889) •
Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1913) •
Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891) •
Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former Polish head of State (b. 1908) • June 8 •
Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904) •
Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900) • June 12 •
Lawrence Anionwu, Nigerian administrator and diplomat, Nigeria's first Ambassador to Italy (b. 1921) •
Milburn Stone, 75, American actor (b. 1904) •
Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910) •
Billy Butlin, entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British
Butlin holiday camp. • June 13 –
Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942) • June 18 •
Henry Aurand, American Lieutenant General, served in WWI, WWII and the Korean War (b. 1894) •
Cliff Bergere, American stuntman and racecar driver (b. 1896) •
Maurice Bridgeman, English oilman (b. 1904) •
Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904) •
André Leducq, French cyclist who won the 1930 and 1932
Tours de France and a gold medal at the
1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1904) • June 20 –
Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer and
violist considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers • June 21 –
Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923) • June 23 •
Vadim Berezinskii, Soviet physicist (b. 1935) •
V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894) •
Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904) •
John Laurie, Scottish stage, film, and television actor (b. 1897) •
Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician who was a member of
parliament and
Lok Sabha. • June 24 •
Connie Mack Berry, American who played professional football, baseball, and basketball (b. 1915) •
Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897) • June 26 •
Hal Aloma, Hawaiian steel guitarist, singer and bandleader (b. 1908) •
Ignatius Jacob III, Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1912) • June 27 –
Barney Bigard, American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington (b. 1906) • June 28 •
Herbie Faye, American actor (b. 1899) •
José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895) •
Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (b. 1900) • June 29 •
Filipp Agaltsov, Soviet Order of Lenin recipient (b. 1900) •
Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903) • June 30 –
Lester Brain, pioneer Australian aviator and airline executive (b. 1903)
July • July 1 –
C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905) • July 2 –
Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (b. 1897) • July 3 •
Sir Adesoji Aderemi, Governor of Western Region, Nigeria (b. 1889) •
Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910) •
Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939) • July 4 –
Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904) • July 6 –
Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911) • July 7 •
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901) •
Dore Schary, American film writer, director and producer (b. 1905) • July 8 –
Don G. Abel, American attorney and Washington State Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894) • July 9 •
Nazario Belmar, Spanish footballer, film producer and lawyer (b. 1919) •
Ian Botting, New Zealand international rugby union player (b. 1922) •
Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913) • July 10 •
Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor (b. 1887) •
Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist (b.
1902) • July 11 –
Zygmunt Berling, Polish general and politician (b. 1896) • July 12 –
Donald Beatty, American aviator, explorer, and inventor (b. 1900) • July 13 •
Joseph Brennan, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (b. 1913) •
Sir Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921) • July 14 –
Felix Berezin, Soviet Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1931) • July 16 –
Robert Brackman, American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and
still lifes. (b. 1898) • July 17 •
Don "Red" Barry, American film and television actor (b. 1912) •
Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890) • July 19 •
Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912) •
Hans Morgenthau, German-American jurist and political scientist who specialized in foreign relations; made landmark contributions to
international relations theory and the study of
international law (b. 1904) • July 20 •
William P. Battell, Major General of the US Marine Corps (b.1906) •
Piet Bouman, Dutch amateur footballer who played for his country (b. 1892) •
Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896) • July 21 –
Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, two-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912) • July 22 –
Bob Bawden, Australian rules footballer with Richmond (b. 1917) • July 23 •
Eliot Hyman, American film executive and co-founder of
Seven Arts Productions (b. 1904) •
Mollie Steimer, Ukrainian anarchist activist; relocated multiple times for anarchist activities before becoming a photographer (b. 1897) • July 24 •
J. S. Brenner, American politician in the state of Montana (b. 1911) •
Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925) •
Uttam Kumar, Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in
Bengali cinema (b. 1926) • July 25 –
Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938) • July 26 •
Peter René Oscar Bally, Swiss botanical illustrator, botanist and taxonomist (b. 1895) •
Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927) •
Allen Hoskins, American child actor, who portrayed the character of Farina in 105
Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931 (b. 1920) •
Ibn-e-Safi,
fiction writer, novelist and poet of
Urdu from Pakistan. • July 27 •
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919) •
Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian film and television actor (b. 1926) • July 30 –
Charles McGraw, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1914) • July 31 –
Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902) • July unknown date –
Herbert Best, British-American author of children's literature and science fiction (b. 1894)
August • August 1 •
Gardner Boultbee, Canadian sailor and Olympic medalist (b. 1907) •
Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944) •
Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919) • August 2 •
Page Belcher, American Republican politician (b. 1899) •
Verdun Scott, sportsman who represented New Zealand in both Test
cricket and
rugby league. As of 2022, he is the only player to have done so (b. 1916) •
Leo Soileau, American
Cajun musician (b. 1904) • August 4 –
Georg Aumann, German mathematician (b. 1906) • August 5 •
Joachim Hämmerling, German-born Danish biologist (b. 1901) •
Harold L. Runnels,
U.S. Representative from New Mexico (b. 1924) • August 6 –
Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and educator (b. 1901) • August 7 –
Albert Bittner, German conductor (b. 1900) • August 8 •
Arman, Iranian-Armenian actor (b. 1921) •
Paul Triquet, Canadian captain in WWII and recipient of the
Victoria Cross in WWII (b. 1910) •
Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, member of Soviet
cosmonaut group LII-1 •
Kim Hong-il, Korean diplomat and politician, independence activist (b. 1898) • August 9 •
Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906) •
Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (b. 1909) •
Elliott Nugent, American actor, playwright, writer, and film director (b. 1896) • August 10 •
Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946) •
Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917) • August 13 –
Bogislaw von Bonin, Colonel in the German Wehrmacht (b. 1908) • August 14 •
Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright (b. 1911) •
Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960) • August 15 –
William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888) • August 16 –
Kevin Blackwell, New Zealand road and track cyclist, Commonwealth Games medallist (b. 1955–56) • August 17 •
Harold Adamson, American lyricist (b. 1906) •
Azaria Chamberlain, killed by a dingo leading to false imprisonment for murder for her mother (b. 1980) • August 18 •
Fred Beaver, Muscogee Creek-Seminole painter and muralist (b.
1911) •
Norman Cazden, American composer (b. 1914) • August 19 –
Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist
Anne Frank (b. 1889) • August 20 •
Astaman, Indonesian actor (b. 1900) •
Naemi Briese, Swedish film actress (b. 1908) •
Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938) •
Dame Lucy Sutherland, Australian-born British historian, academic and public servant (b.
1903) • August 21 –
Jack Cheetham, South African
cricketer who played in 24
Test matches (b. 1920) • August 22 •
L. C. Bates, African-American civil rights activist (b. 1904) •
Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile (b. 1898) •
Alfred Neubauer, racing manager of the
Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955 (b. 1891) •
James Smith McDonnell, American aviator, engineer, and businessman. (b. 1899) • August 24 •
Andre Parrot, French
archaeologist specializing in ancient Near East. He led excavations in
Lebanon,
Iraq and
Syria (b. 1901) •
Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927) • August 25 •
Santos P. Amadeo, Puerto Rican attorney, law professor and Senator (b. 1902) •
Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919) • August 26 •
Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian film and stage actress, with Nazi sympathies (b. 1874) •
Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor (b. 1908) •
Jimmy Forrest, American
jazz musician who played
tenor saxophone throughout his career (b. 1920) •
Miliza Korjus, Polish-Estonian
lyric coloratura soprano opera singer who appeared in classical American and
Mexican sound films during the
Golden Age of Hollywood (b. 1909) • August 27 •
Herman Beam, NASCAR Grand National Series driver and team owner (b. 1929) •
Sam Levenson, American humorist and author (b. 1911) • August 29 •
Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist, neurologist and professor (b. 1924) •
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French Nazi collaborationist and
Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the
Vichy Régime • August 30 –
Big Brown, American street poet, performer, and recording artist (b. 1920) • August 31 –
Rodolfo Arena, Brazilian actor (b. 1910)
September • September 1 •
Reg Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914) •
Frank LaManna, American baseball player (b. 1919) • September 2 –
C. K. Alexander, Egyptian actor, director, composer, and playwright (b. 1923) • September 3 •
Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909) •
Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926) •
Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-born American actor (b. 1904) •
Fabian von Schlabendorff, German jurist, soldier, and member of the
German resistance against Adolf Hitler (b. 1907) • September 4 –
Wolfgang Gentner, German experimental
nuclear physicist (b. 1906) • September 5 •
Don Banks, Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music (b. 1923) •
Barbara Loden, American actress and director of film and theater (b. 1932) • September 6 –
Joe Bradford, English professional international footballer (b. 1901) • September 8 •
Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (b. 1908) •
Bruce Dooland, Australian
cricketer who played in three
Test matches for the
Australian national cricket team (b. 1923) • September 9 •
Harold Clurman, American theatre director and drama critic (b. 1901) •
John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author who wrote about racial equality (b.1920) • September 11 •
Junius "Rainey" Bibbs, American baseball player (b. 1910) •
Harry Hulihan, American baseball player (b. 1899) •
Ernie Ovitz, American baseball player (b. 1885) •
Garth Mann, American baseball player (b. 1915) • September 12 •
Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898) •
André Chéron, French chess player,
endgame theorist, and a
composer of
endgame studies (b. 1895) • September 13 –
Fred D. Beans, brigadier general of the US Marine Corps, (b. 1906) • September 14 –
Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player (b. 1898) • September 15 –
Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929) • September 16 –
Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896) • September 17 •
Harold Boas, Australian town planner and architect (b. 1883) •
Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925) • September 18 •
Frank Anderson, Canadian chess master and writer (b. 1928) •
Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890) • September 19 –
Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890) • September 20 •
Marie Bremner, Australian soprano, remembered for performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas (b. 1904) •
Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner (b. 1904) • September 21 –
Eberhard von Breitenbuch, German cavalry officer who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler (b. 1910) • September 23 •
Jim Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898) •
Alan Strode Campbell Ross, British academic specializing in
linguistics (b. 1907) • September 24 –
Bill Ayers, American baseball player • September 25 •
Richard Reeve Baxter, American jurist (b. 1921) •
John Bonham, British rock drummer (
Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948) •
Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895) •
Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883) • September 26 •
Princess Anne of Denmark, (b. 1917) •
Albert C. Bostwick Jr., American steeplechase jockey, thoroughbred racehorse owner, breeder and trainer (b. 1901) • September 29 •
Juxon Barton, British colonial administrator, Governor of Fiji, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (b. 1891) •
Harold F. Blum, physiologist who explored the interaction of light and chemicals on cells (b. 1899) •
Bindo Maserati, Italian automotive engineer and businessman, known as the manager of
Maserati and one of the
Maserati Brothers (b. 1883)
October • October 1 –
Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst, worked for the National Security Agency (b. 1924) • October 2 •
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, oldest daughter and fifth child of Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (b. 1915) •
Sir John Kotelawala, Sri Lankan soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1897) •
Valentin Varlamov, Russian jet pilot who was selected for
Air Force Group 1 (b. 1934) • October 3 –
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist (b. 1904) • October 6 •
Sir Edric Bastyan, British Army officer, Governor of South Australia and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1903) •
Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922) •
Jean Robic, French
road racing cyclist who won the
1947 Tour de France • October 8 •
Suzanne Bertillon, French WWII resistance fighter, awarded the Legion of Honour (b. 1891) •
Maurice Martenot, French cellist, radio
telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor (b. 1898) • October 10 •
Carlo Annovazzi, Italian footballer (b. 1925) •
Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (b.
1897) • October 12 –
Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, former president of Uruguay (de facto) (b. 1896) • October 14 •
Lawrence Baker, American tennis administrator and player, US Davis Cup captain (b. 1890) •
Oscar Alemán, Argentine jazz guitarist, singer, and dancer (b. 1909) • October 15 •
John Henry Balch, United States Naval Reserve officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I (b. 1896) •
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908) •
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and
hydrodynamicist • October 16
Sergey Taboritsky, Russian ultranationalist and journalist (b. 1897) • October 17 –
Narciso J. Alegre, Filipino civil liberties advocate, and a founder of Young Philippines (b. 1911) • October 18 •
Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887) •
Song Yo-chan, Korean prime minister (b. 1918) • October 19 –
Bobby Bauld, Scottish professional footballer (b. 1902) • October 20 –
Isobel Barnett, Scottish radio and television personality (b. 1918) • October 21 •
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906) •
Kanjūrō Arashi, Japanese film actor (b. 1903) •
Élie-Oscar Bertrand, Canadian businessman and House of Commons representative (b. 1894) •
Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian Communist leader and statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900) •
Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (b. 1887) • October 22 –
Sammy Angott, American boxer, World Lightweight champion (b. 1915) • October 23 •
Charles Adler Jr., American engineer and inventor (b. 1899) •
Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897) • October 25 •
Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912) •
Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948) •
Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921) • October 26 –
Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906) • October 27 •
Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster (b. 1924) •
Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949) •
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (b. 1899) • October 29 –
Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911) • October 31 •
Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (b. 1892) •
Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (b. 1905)
November • November 2 –
Willie Sutton, American bank robber (b. 1901) • November 3 –
Ludwig Hohl, Swiss writer writing in the German language (b. 1904) • November 4 •
Sir Kenneth Blackburne, British colonial official, first governor-general of Jamaica (b. 1907) •
Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer, the first woman in the world to earn an
aeronautical engineering degree, and the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering (b. 1905) •
Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956) • November 5 •
Louis Alter, American pianist, songwriter and composer (b. 1902) •
Caroline Brady, American philologist (b. 1905) • November 6 –
Aedy Moward, Indonesian actor (b. 1929) • November 7 •
Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930) •
Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer, journalist, and actor (b. 1904) • November 8 •
Gordon Robert Archibald, Scottish painter (b. 1905) •
Claudio Bincaz, Argentine international football and rugby union player (b. 1897) • November 9 –
Victor Sen Young, 65, American
character actor (b. 1915) • November 10 –
Marion Allnutt, welfare worker, commanding officer of the NGO, Women's Australian National Services (b. 1896) • November 11 –
Renato Barbieri, Italian rower and Olympic medalist (b. 1903) • November 12 –
Andrei Amalrik, Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1938) • November 16 •
Nikolaus Biewer, German international footballer (b. 1922) •
Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942) • November 18 •
Arthur S. Adams, President of the University of New Hampshire (b. 1896) •
Conn Smythe, Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing (b. 1895) • November 19 •
Margaret Aitken, Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician (b. 1906) •
E. J. Bowen, British physical chemist (b. 1898) • November 20 •
Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, German general in the Wehrmacht (b. 1889) •
Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922) •
Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) • November 21 –
Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895) • November 22 •
Leonard Barr, American stand-up comedian, film actor, and dancer (b. 1903) •
Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901) •
Mae West, American actress (b. 1893) • November 23 –
R. Allatini, Austrian-British novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms R. Allatini, A.T. Fitzroy, Mrs Cyril Scott, Lucian Wainwright, and Eunice Buckley (b. 1890] • November 24 •
George Aarons, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1896) •
Herbert Agar, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient (b. 1897) •
George Raft, American actor (b. 1901) • November 25 •
George Amsberg, Australian barrister and judge (b. 1905) •
Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928) • November 26 •
Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927) •
Pete DePaolo, American
racing driver who is remembered as one of the greatest racers of his generation (b. 1898) • November 29 •
Dorothy Day, American journalist and social activist (b. 1897) •
Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)
December • December 1 –
Frank Booth, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (b. 1910) • December 2 –
Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914) • December 3 – Sir
Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896) • December 4 •
Snu Abecassis, Danish-Portuguese publisher (b. 1940) •
Adelino Amaro da Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1943) •
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan, President of United Nations General Assembly (b. 1913) •
Joe Birch, English professional footballer (b. 1904) •
Jenő Brandi, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic medalist (b. 1913) •
Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934) •
Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born American runner, Olympic champion (
1932) (b. 1911) • December 6 –
Margot Bennett, Scottish-born screenwriter and author of crime and thriller novels (b. 1912) • December 7 •
Beechi, humorist in the Kannada language (b. 1913) •
Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958) • December 8 •
Theo Breuer, German international footballer (b. 1909) •
John Lennon, 40, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beatles),
murdered. • December 10 –
Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892) • December 11 –
Hawayo Takata, Japanese-born American teacher and master practitioner of
Reiki (b. 1900) • December 12 –
Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and premier from
Quebec (b. 1912) • December 13 –
Fleming Alexander, American minister, businessman, and newspaper publisher, founded the Roanoke Tribune (b. 1888) • December 14 •
Sir Hugh Beadle, Rhodesian lawyer, politician, judge, Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1905) •
Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist (b. 1894) •
Elston Howard, American
professional baseball player who was a
catcher and a
left fielder (b. 1929) • December 16 •
Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936) •
Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890) •
Jose B. Lingad, Filipino lawyer and politician who served as governor and congressman from
Pampanga (b. 1914) •
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900) • December 17 –
Ahmet Berman, Turkish international footballer (b. 1932) • December 18 •
Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909) •
Frances Fuller, American actress (b.1907) •
Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904) • Sir
Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910) • December 21 •
Philip Lemont Barbour, American linguist, historian and radio broadcaster (b. 1898) •
Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890) • December 22 –
Miriam Battista, American actress known principally for her early career as a child star in silent films (b. 1912) • December 24 •
Caroline van Hook Bean, American Impressionist painter (b. 1879) •
Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891) •
Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894) •
Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of
The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893) • December 25 –
Fred Emney, English
character actor and comedian (b. 1900) • December 26 •
Edward Ajado, Nigerian sprinter and Empire Games medal winner (b. 1929) •
Giuseppe Balbo, Italian painter (b. 1902) •
Richard Chase, American serial killer & cannibal (b. 1950) • December 28 •
James N. Bloodworth, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (b. 1921) •
Amir Elahi, Indian-Pakistani test cricketer who represented both countries (b. 1908) •
Sam Levene, Russian-American
Broadway, films, radio, and television actor and director (b. 1905) • December 29 –
Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941) • December 30 •
Frank Baker, Australian-American actor and stuntman (b. 1892) •
George Beel, English footballer (b. 1900) • December 31 •
Alan Bellhouse, Australian mathematician, teacher, musician, founder of North Sydney Symphony Orchestra (b. 1914) •
Bob Shawkey, American baseball
pitcher who played fifteen seasons in
Major League Baseball (b. 1890) •
Dalbir Bindra, Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1922) •
Abdelhafid Boussouf, Algerian nationalist and a leader of the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence (b. 1926) •
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911) •
Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887) •
J.W. Milam, American murderer and white supremacist (b. 1919)
Unknown month •
Justicia Acuña, first woman to become a civil engineer in Chile (b. 1893) •
M. P. Alladin, Trinidad and Tobago artist, poet, writer, teacher and public servant (b. 1919) •
María Álvarez de Guillén, Salvadoran businesswoman, writer and women's rights activist (b. 1889) •
Lev Balandin, Soviet swimmer and European Championships medalist (b. 1934) •
Margaret Ballinger, South African politician, first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa (b. 1894) •
Robert Barbour, Scottish airman and flying ace of World War I (b. 1895) •
Archie Bayes, English football goalkeeper (b. 1896) •
Juan Besuzzo, Uruguayan international footballer (b. 1913) •
Frank Bielby, English professional rugby league footballer (b. 1897) •
Lily Eberwein, Sarawakian nationalist, women's rights activist (b.
1900) •
Asia Tawfiq Wahbi, Iraqi writer and social reformer (b. 1901) ==References==