1903) January 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (b. 1887) January 23 Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908) Marcolino Gomes Candau, Brazilian medical doctor, 2nd Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1911) January 24 Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b. 1900) George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899) Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine Olympic athlete (b. 1911) January 26 – Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (b. 1913) January 27 Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader and politician, 82nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1899) Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914) January 28 Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia, leader of the World War II (b. 1890) Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940) January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898) February February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950) February 6 – Eben Bartlett, American military officer and politician (b. 1912) February 7 – Raja Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937) February 8 Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917) Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1893) February 9 – Patriarch Khoren I Paroian (b. 1914) February 12 Italo Acconcia, Italian football player and manager (b. 1925) Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887) February 13 – Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899) February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903) February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904) February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889) February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892) February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911) February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908) February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914) March March 1 Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902) Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905) March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907) March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913) March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912) March 8 Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902) Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920) March 9 Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917) Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910) March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927) March 15 Dame Rebecca West, British writer (b.