(R-MO) from 2019 Deaths January January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887) January 4 – Vincent Korda, Hungarian art director (b. 1897) January 5 Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894) Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922) January 11 – Jack Soo, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1917) January 13 – Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945) January 15 – Charles W. Morris, American philosopher and semiotician (b. 1901) January 16 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932) January 22 – Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian Leader of Black September and mastermind of the 1972 Munich Massacre (b. 1940) January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908) January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine publisher, writer and critic (b. 1890) February February 1 William H. Brockman Jr., United States Navy admiral (b. 1904) Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and human rights activist (b. 1929) February 2 Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903) Sid Vicious, English musician (b. 1957) February 7 – Josef Mengele, German officer and physician (b. 1911) February 10 Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910) Karl von Eberstein, German politician (b. 1894) February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director and actor (b. 1894) February 14 – Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917) February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905) February 20 – Nereo Rocco, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1912) February 25 – Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer (b. 1890) March March 1 Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903) Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903) March 15 – Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1896) March 18 – Marjorie Daw, American actress (b. 1902) March 19 – Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947) March 22 – Ben Lyon, American actor (b. 1901) March 24 – Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (b. 1915) March 26 – Jean Stafford, American writer (b. 1915) March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan and 6th King of Malaysia (b. 1917) March 30 Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916) José María Velasco Ibarra, Ecuadorian politician, 24th President of Ecuador (b. 1893) April April 4 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928) Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903) April 10 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911) April 11 – Hassan Pakravan, Iranian