Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907) September 11 – Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898) September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) September 14 – Charles L. Melson, American admiral (b. 1904) September 15 Harold Bennett, British actor (b. 1899) Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906) September 21 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1912) September 22 – Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893) September 23 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor and writer, tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (b. 1899) September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910) September 27 – Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (b. 1904) September 28 Rómulo Betancourt, 2-time President of Venezuela (b. 1908) Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923) September 29 Javad Fakoori, Iranian military officer, former minister of Defence (b. 1913) Mousa Namjoo, Iranian military officer, minister of Defence (b. 1938) Bill Shankly, British football manager (b. 1913) October October 2 Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902) Hazel Scott, American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1920) October 3 – Chrysostom Blashkevich, Soviet Benedict monk (b. 1915) October 4 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905) October 5 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923) October 6 – Anwar Sadat, 37th Prime Minister of Egypt and 3rd President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918) October 13 Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905) Nils Asther, Danish-born actor (b. 1897) October 16 Stanley Clements, American actor (b. 1926) Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915) October 22 – Michael Granger, American actor (b. 1923) October 24 – Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897) October 25 – Barbara Bedford, American actress (b. 1903) October 27 – John Warburton, British actor (b. 1899) October 29 – Georges Brassens, French singer and songwriter (b. 1921) November November 2 – Wally Wood, American cartoonist (b. 1927) November 3 – Jean Eustache, French film director (b. 1938) November 7 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885) November 10 – Abel Gance, French film director (b. 1889) November 12 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) November 13 – Gerhard Marcks, German sculptor (b. 1889) November 15 Walter Heitler, German physicist (b. 1904)Fellow of the Royal Society Enid Markey, American