(killed in plane crash) (b. 1907) March 26 Édouard Herriot, French politician, 66th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872) Max Ophüls, German film director and writer (b. 1902) March 28 – Gheorghe Tătărescu, Romanian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1886) March 29 Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888) María Josefa Segovia Morón, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1891) March 31 – Gene Lockhart, Canadian actor (b. 1891) April April 3 – Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor (b. 1883) April 4 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909) April 5 – Alagappa Chettiar, Indian philanthropist (b. 1909) April 6 – Pierina Morosini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and blessed (b. 1931) April 8 Dorothy Sebastian, American actress (b. 1903) Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1880) April 11 – William Skelly, American oil magnate (b. 1878) April 15 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917) April 16 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1882) April 21 – Boris Kozo-Polyansky, Soviet botanist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1890) April 23 – Roy Campbell, South African poet (b. 1901) April 24 – Elizabeth Hesselblad, Swedish nurse and Roman Catholic saint (b. 1870) April 25 – Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1880) April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903) May May 1 Grant Mitchell, American actor (b. 1874) Sir George Paish, English economist (b. 1867) May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, American senator (b. 1908) May 4 – Katie Johnson, British actress (b. 1878) May 7 Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877) Zenón Noriega Agüero, Peruvian general, interim President of Peru (b. 1900) May 9 Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892) Heinrich Campendonk, German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. 1889) May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (b. 1885) May 13 Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886) Prince Makonnen, Ethiopian prince (b. 1923) Robert Alfred Theobald, American admiral (b. 1884) May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Soviet artist (b. 1884) May 16 John Brown, British actor (b. 1904) Eliot Ness, American Prohibition agent (b. 1903) May 17 – Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian composer (b. 1880) May 20 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-British classical scholar and intellectual (b. 1866) May 29 – James Whale, English film director (b. 1889) May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) June June 1 Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader (b. 1897)