businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (b. 1918) April 6 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920) April 7 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903) April 8 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907) April 10 Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1920) April 13 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921) Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (b. 1968) April 16 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920) April 19 – Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (b. 1917) April 20 – Benny Hill, British comedian and actor (b. 1924) April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish author (b. 1920) April 23 Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912) Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921) April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1965) April 27 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908) April 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British painter (b. 1909) April 29 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910) May May 3 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (b. 1902) May 6 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901) May 8 – Otto Šimánek, Czech actor (b. 1925) May 10 – John Lund, American actor (b. 1911) May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932) May 14 Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949) Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899) May 17 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903) May 23 Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939) Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1908) May 25 Tulio Demicheli, Argentine film director (b. 1914) Philip Habib, Lebanese-born American diplomat (b. 1920) May 30 – Karl Carstens, German politician and statesman, 7th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1914) June June 3 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908) June 18 Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter (b. 1944) Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896) June 19 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, British tennis player (b. 1896) June 21 Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (b. 1922) Li Xiannian, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China and one of the Eight Elders of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1909) June 25 – Sir James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926) June 26 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921) June 27 – Allan Jones, American actor (b. 1907) June 28 Qian Sanqiang,