actor (b. 1884) January 29 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954) February February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901) February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904) February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist (b. 1894) February 9 – Alia Al-Hussein, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1948) February 15 – Herman Johannes Lam, Dutch botanist (b. 1892) February 16 Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905) Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897) February 27 – John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (b. 1906) March March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925) March 3 Brian Faulkner, last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1921) Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883) March 4 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official, last führer of Nazi Germany (b. 1887) March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula One racing driver (b. 1949) March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890) March 10 E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b. 1906) Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894) March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917) March 15 – Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1921) March 17 – Claude Roger-Marx, French writer, and playwright (b. 1888) March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd President of Congo (b. 1938) March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888) March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909) March 29 – Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898) March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929) April April 2 – John Whitaker, British gymnast (b. 1886) April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, 11th President of Cuba (b. 1903) April 7 – Karl Ritter, German film producer and director (b. 1888) April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900) April 17 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913) April 20 Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion (b. 1904) Bryan Foy, American film producer and director (b. 1896) April 21 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892) April 27 Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915) Charles Alston, American artist and sculptor (b. 1907) April 28 Ricardo Cortez,