religions and writer (b. 1907) April 23 Harold Arlen, American music composer (b. 1905) Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922) Otto Preminger, Austrian-American film director (b. 1905) April 24 – The Duchess of Windsor (b. 1896) April 26 Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911) Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898) Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian educator (b. 1919) Valery Khodemchuk, Soviet engineer, working at Chernobyl reactor 4 (b. 1951) April 27 – J. Allen Hynek, American ufologist (b. 1910) April 30 – Robert Stevenson, English film director (b. 1905) May May 2 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956) May 3 – Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914) May 7 – Herma Szabo, Austrian figure skater (b. 1902) May 9 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (b. 1923) Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914) May 11 Vladimir Pravik, Soviet firefighter (b. 1962) Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1953) May 12 Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897) Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist (b. 1885) May 13 – Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1961) May 15 Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958) Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915) May 20 – Helen B. Taussig, American cardiologist (b. 1898) May 23 Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916) Altiero Spinelli, Italian political theorist and European federalist (b. 1907) May 24 – Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (b. 1895) May 25 – Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901) May 26 – Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer (b. 1963) May 28 – Lurene Tuttle, American actress (b. 1907) May 30 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940) May 31 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) June June 3 – Dame Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904) June 5 – Bryan Grant, American tennis champion (b. 1909) June 11 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter (b. 1888) June 13 – Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b. 1909) June 14 Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (b. 1918) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899) June 16 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b. 1902) June 17 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907) June 19 Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963) Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b. 1944) June 23 – Sir