member of Bill Haley & The Comets (b. 1925) Jack Z. Anderson, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1904) February 10 – Hubert Shirley-Smith, British civil engineer (b. 1901) February 12 – Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, British admiral (b. 1888) February 15 Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926) Mike Bloomfield, American blues guitarist (b. 1943) February 18 John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895) Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha, Egyptian politician, 28th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1896) February 20 Bernard B. Brown, American sound engineer and composer (b. 1898) Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904) February 22 Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908) Curtis Bernhardt, German film director (b. 1899) Ilo Wallace, wife of Henry A. Wallace, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1888) February 25 Leonard Howell, Founder of Rastafari (b. 1898) Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) February 26 – Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896) February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920) March March 1 – Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, 14th President of Panama (b. 1903) March 4 – Torin Thatcher, American actor (b. 1905) March 5 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896) March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893) March 7 Peter Birch, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1911) Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914) Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German-Danish tennis player (b. 1908) March 9 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906) March 10 – Flavio Calzavara, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900) March 11 – Kazimierz Kordylewski, Polish astronomer (b. 1903) March 14 – Paolo Grassi, Italian actor (b. 1919) March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898) March 20 – Gerry Bertier, American college football player (b. 1953) March 21 – Mark Donskoy, Russian Soviet film director (b. 1901) March 22 John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (b. 1911) Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, Senator of the Philippines and Senate President (b. 1907) March 23 Sir Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (b. 1884) Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (b. 1940) Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (b. 1941) March 26 – Cyril Dean Darlington, English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, (b. 1903) March 29 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911) March 30 Sherman Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1919) Douglas Lowe, British Olympic athlete