geneticist (b. 1909) February 17 – Gavriil Popov, Soviet Russian composer (b. 1904) February 19 John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) Lee Morgan, American jazz trumpeter and composer (b. 1938) February 20 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897) February 25 – Gottfried Fuchs, German footballer (b. 1889) March March 8 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi politician and SS functionary (b. 1899) March 11 – Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (b. 1906) March 20 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921) March 23 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (b. 1895) March 27 M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (b. 1926) March 28 – Joseph Paul-Boncour, 71st Prime Minister of France (b. 1873) March 31 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress, singer and poet (b. 1933) April April 2 – Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) April 3 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892) April 4 – Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (b. 1902) April 5 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907) April 6 Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901) Heinrich Lübke, 2nd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1894) April 7 Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (b. 1905) August Zaleski, 6th President of Poland (b. 1883) April 9 – James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State and Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1882) April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (b. 1899) April 20 – Andrea Andreen, Swedish physician (b. 1888) April 24 – Nora K. Chadwick, English philologist (b. 1891) April 25 – George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (b. 1906) April 26 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) April 27 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909) April 29 – King Ntare V of Burundi (b. 1947) April 30 Gia Scala, British actress (b. 1934) Clara Campoamor, Spanish politician and suffragist (b. 1888) May May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American civil servant, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (b. 1895) May 3 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904) May 4 Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905) Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886) Josep Samitier, Spanish footballer (b. 1902) May 5 Reverend Gary Davis, American blues and gospel singer (b. 1896) Frank Tashlin, American animation director