(b. 1916) February 28 – Chic Johnson, American actor (b. 1891) March March 1 Roscoe Ates, American actor (b. 1895) Richard L. Conolly, American admiral (b. 1892) W. Alton Jones, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1891) Arnold Kirkeby, American hotelier, art collector and real estate investor (b. 1901) Emelyn Whiton, American Olympic sailor (b. 1916) March 2 – Walt Kiesling, American football player (Chicago Cardinals) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903) March 3 – Pierre Benoit, French novelist (b. 1886) March 14 – Giovanna Berneri, Italian educationalist and anarchist (b. 1897) March 15 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) March 19 - Vasily Stalin, Soviet general and son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1921) March 20 C. Wright Mills, American sociologist (b. 1916) A. E. Douglass, American astronomer and founder of dendrochronology (b. 1867) March 23 – Josef van Schaik, Dutch politician (b. 1882) March 24 Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (b. 1893) Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, aeronaut and explorer (b. 1884) March 27 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (b. 1892) April April 1 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (b. 1910) April 3 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (died as result of injuries in the ring; b. 1937) April 4 – James Hanratty, English murderer, one of the last people to be hanged in the UK (b. 1936) April 8 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892) April 10 Michael Curtiz, Austrian-born film director (b. 1886) Manton S. Eddy, American general (b. 1892) April 14 – M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and politician (b. 1861) April 15 Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1876) Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911) April 17 – Louise Fazenda, American actress (b. 1895) April 20 – Grover Whalen, American politician (b. 1886) April 21 – Sir Frederick Handley Page, English aircraft manufacturer (b. 1885) April 22 – Vera Reynolds, American actress (b. 1899) April 24 – Milt Franklyn, American film composer (b. 1897) April 27 – Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. 1866) April 28 – Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician and saint (b. 1922) April 29 – Hajime Tanabe, Japanese philosopher (b. 1885) May May 3 – Helen Dortch Longstreet, American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (b. 1863) May 5 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) May 10 – Shunroku Hata, Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army