judge (b. 1874) March 14 – Oliver Kirk, American Olympic boxer (b. 1884) March 22 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish politician (b. 1904) March 23 – Franklin P. Adams, American journalist (b. 1881) March 26 – Ian Keith, American actor (b. 1899) March 27 Mario Talavera, Mexican songwriter (b. 1885) Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, scientist, historian and philosopher. (b. 1887) April April 1 – Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia (b. 1895) April 3 – Norodom Suramarit, King of Cambodia (b. 1896) April 5 Cuthbert Burnup, English sportsman (b. 1875) Peter Llewelyn Davies, namesake for Peter Pan (b. 1897) Alma Kruger, American actress (b. 1868) April 10 – Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (b. 1893) April 17 – Eddie Cochran, American rock singer (b. 1938) April 19 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (b. 1894) April 24 Hope Emerson, American actress, performer, and strongwoman (b. 1897) Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) George Relph, English actor (b. 1888) April 25 Amānullāh Khān, Emir and King of Afghanistan (b. 1892) Turan Emeksiz, Turkish student killed during the demonstrations (b. 1940) April 26 – Gustaf Lindblom, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1891) April 28 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean army officer and political figure, 20th President of Chile (b. 1877) May May 2 – Caryl Chessman, American criminal (b. 1921) May 3 – Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (b. 1914) May 8 Hersch Lauterpacht, British international lawyer (b. 1897) J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904) May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874) May 12 – Prince Aly Khan, Pakistani United Nations ambassador (b. 1911) May 14 – Lucrezia Bori, Spanish opera singer (b. 1887) May 22 – İbrahim Çallı, Turkish painter (b. 1882) May 23 Georges Claude, French inventor (b. 1870) The Great Gama, Punjabi wrestler (b. 1878) May 24 – Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1887) May 25 – Rafael Gómez Ortega, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1882) May 27 George Zucco, English-born character actor (b. 1886) James Montgomery Flagg, American artist, comics artist and illustrator (b. 1877) May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890) May 31 – Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (b. 1890) June June 4 Józef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general (b. 1873) Lucien Littlefield, American actor (b. 1895) June 13 – Ken McArthur,