Rome (b. 1908) March 15 – Ken Carpenter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913) Konstantin Badygin, Soviet Naval officer and explorer (b. 1910) March 12 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896) March 16 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947) March 18 – Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (b. 1907) March 23 – Peter Kolosimo, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1922) March 24 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891) March 26 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (b. 1922) March 27 – Jack Donohue, American film screenwriter and director (b. 1908) March 30 – Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904) March 31 – Jack Howarth, English actor (b. 1896) April April 1 Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939) Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (b. 1900) April 5 Arthur "Bomber" Harris, British air marshal (b. 1892) Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894) April 7 – Frank Church, American politician, U.S. senator from 1957 to 1981 (b. 1924) April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894) April 9 – Willem Sandberg, Dutch typographer (b. 1897) April 12 – Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1938) April 15 Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921) William Empson, English poet and critic (b. 1906) April 16 – Byron Haskin, American film and television director (b. 1899) April 17 – Mark W. Clark, American general (b. 1896) April 19 – Machito, Cuban jazz musician (b. 1908) April 20 – Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (b. 1925) April 21 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895) April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902) April 23 – Roland Penrose, English artist, historian and poet (b. 1900) April 26 Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904) May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899) April 30 – Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1946) May May 2 Jack Barry, American television host and producer (b. 1918) Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913) May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931) May 6 – Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904) May 8 – Lila Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889) May 12 – Charlie Stubbs, English footballer (b. 1920) May 15 – Lionel Robbins, British economist (b. 1898) May 16 Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949) Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913) May