Henri Michaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899) Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1947) (Murdered) October 20 Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) Paul Dirac, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) October 21 – François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932) October 23 David Gorcey, American actor (b. 1921) Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922) October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899) October 25 – Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958) October 30 – June Duprez, English actress (b. 1918) October 31 Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1900) Indira Gandhi, Indian politician and political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of India (assassinated) (b. 1917) November November 11 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement (b. 1899) November 16 Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906) Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918) November 20 Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1910) Carlo Campanini, Italian actor (b. 1906) December December 4 – Jack Mercer, American voice artist (b. 1910) December 7 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919) December 8 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903) December 9 – Ivor Moreton, British singer and pianist (b. 1908) December 11 Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911) George Waggner, American film director (b. 1894) December 13 – Clemente de la Cerda, Venezuelan director (b. 1935) December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904) December 16 – J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920) December 20 Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946) Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (b. 1933) Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer and Minister of Defense (b. 1908) December 24 Ian Hendry, English actor (b. 1931) Peter Lawford, English-American actor and socialite (b. 1923) December 26 – Sheila Andrews, American country music singer (b. 1953) December 28 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925) December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900) Nobel Prizes Physics – Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer Chemistry – Robert Bruce Merrifield Medicine – Niels Kaj Jerne, Georges J. F. Köhler, César Milstein Literature – Jaroslav Seifert Peace – Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in