wing politician (b. 1895) March 8 – Brian Swift, Australian cricketer, car accident (b. 1937) March 11 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (born 1891) March 12 – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (b. 1878) March 17 – Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877) March 21 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923) March 22 (in plane crash) Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909) Art Cohn, American screenwriter (b. 1909) March 23 Charlotte Walker, American actress (b, 1876) Florian Znaniecki, Polish philosopher and sociologist (b, 1882) March 24 Herbert Fields, American librettist and screenwriter (b. 1897) Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1874) March 25 Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (b. 1915) Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888) March 26 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887) March 28 W. C. Handy, African-American blues composer (b. 1873) Chuck Klein, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1904) April April 2 Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1868) Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (b. 1900) April 4 – María Luisa Sepúlveda, Chilean composer (b. 1898) April 5 – Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884) April 8 Alcibíades Arosemena, Panamanian politician, 15th President of Panama (b. 1883) George Jean Nathan, American drama critic (b. 1882) Frank Eaton, American Deputy Marshal (b. 1860) Frank Kingdon-Ward, English botanist and explorer (b. 1885) April 15 – Estelle Taylor, American actress (b. 1894) April 16 – Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (b. 1920) April 17 – Rita Montaner, Cuban singer, pianist and actress (b. 1900) April 18 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872) April 19 – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874) May May 2 – Henry Cornelius, South African-born director (b. 1913) May 3 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889) May 5 – James Branch Cabell, American writer (b. 1879) May 7 Joan Comorera, Spanish politician (b. 1894) Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor (b. 1880) May 9 – Koshirō Oikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1883) May 18 – Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist (b. 1881) May 19 Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891) Marie Pujmanová, Czechoslovak poet and novelist (b. 1893) Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870) May 20 – Frédéric François-Marsal, 59th Prime Minister of France (b. 1874) May 22 – Sir Richmond Palmer, British lawyer and colonial administrator (b. 1877) May 26 – Constantin Cantacuzino, Romanian