laureate (b. 1881) August 19 – David Bomberg, British Vorticist painter (b. 1890) August 20 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (b. 1885) August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (b. 1903) September September 1 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921) (car crash) September 2 – Bobby Myers, American NASCAR driver (b. 1927) September 9 – Muhammad al-Muqri, grand vizier of Morocco (b. 1844) September 15 – Lee Hill, American actor (b. 1894) September 16 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864) September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865) September 21 Jimmy Callahan, American actor (b. 1891) Norma Giménez, Argentine actress (b. 1930) Margaret Ashmore Sudduth, American educator, editor, temperance advocate (b. 1859) King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872) September 22 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) September 25 – Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1895) September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888) September 29 – Prince George Bagration, Georgian nobleman (b. 1884) October October 3 Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (b. 1862) Lőrinc Szabó, Hungarian poet (b. 1900) October 9 – Hassiba Ben Bouali, Algerian militant (b. 1938) October 19 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (b. 1892) October 20 – Jack Buchanan, British actor (b. 1891) October 23 – Frederick Burton, American actor (b. 1871) October 24 Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905) Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African artist (b. 1886) October 25 Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b. 1902) Lord Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878) October 26 Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883) October 27 – Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil and electrical engineer, aircraft designer and industrialist (b. 1886) October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, American film studio mogul, former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (b. 1885) October 30 – José Patricio Guggiari, Paraguayan politician, 32nd President of Paraguay (b. 1884) October 31 – Helena Willman-Grabowska, Polish indologist, Sorbonne and Jagiellonian University professor (b. 1870) November November 2 William Haywood, British architect (b. 1876) Ted Meredith, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891) November 3 Charles Brabin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1882) Laika, Soviet space dog (b. c. 1954) Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1897) November 4 Joseph Canteloube, French composer and singer (b. 1879) Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b. 1897) Grigore Preoteasa, Romanian activist (b.