(b. 1904) July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934) July 11 – Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953) July 12 – Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (b. 1947) July 15 – Roger Revelle, American scientist and scholar (b. 1909) July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915) July 18 – Ambrus Nagy, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (1956) (b. 1927) July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) July 25 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, former member of the CPSU Politburo and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1893) July 27 – Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (b. 1902) July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general (b. 1902) August August 3 – Ali Sabri, Egyptian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920) August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920) August 5 Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908) Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917) August 6 Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915) Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923) August 8 James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930) Ivan Kozhedub, Soviet aviator (b. 1920) August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman, Marine, activist, and politician (b. 1907) August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian film-maker (b. 1905) August 22 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924) Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician, Soviet minister of the Interior (b. 1937) August 23 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist (b. 1897) August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshall of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1923) August 30 Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944) Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925) September September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911) September 3 Frank Capra, Italian-born American film director (b. 1897) Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player (b. 1904) September 4 – Tom Tryon, American actor and writer (b. 1926) September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) September 8 Alex North, American film composer (b. 1910) Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949) September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908) September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1901) September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902) September 24 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss