– Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) April 7 Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879) Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886) Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress and radio personality (b. 1898) April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895) April 10 – Sir John Hope Simpson, British politician (b. 1868) April 11 – Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882) April 12 Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907) Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869) April 19 – Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892) April 21 – James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904) April 24 – Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888) April 25 Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875) George Melford, American actor (b. 1877) April 27 Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893) Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893) April 30 Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927) Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882) May May 3 Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901) Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908) May 6 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (b. 1895) May 13 – Gary Cooper, American actor (High Noon) (b. 1901) May 14 – Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician (b. 1881) May 16 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881) May 22 – Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912) May 30 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) June June – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884) June 6 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) June 9 – Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872) June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875) June 16 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904) June 17 Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918) Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1900) June 18 – Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925) June 19 – Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871) June 23 – Nikolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883) June 24 William J. Connors, American politician (b. 1891) George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914) June 25