Chinese nuclear physicist (b. 1913) Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion (b. 1936) June 29 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919; assassinated) July July 2 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950) July 4 Francis Perrin, French nuclear physicist (b. 1901) Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer (b. 1921) July 7 – Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish Olympic athlete (b. 1927) July 9 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912) July 10 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1905) July 11 – Deng Yingchao, Chinese Communist politician, widow of Zhou Enlai (b. 1904) July 15 – Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922) July 18 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896) July 19 Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (b. 1940) Allen Newell, American computer scientist (b. 1927) July 22 Suleiman Frangieh, Lebanese politician, 5th President of Lebanon (b. 1910) John Meyendorff, Russian scholar (b. 1926) July 23 – Rosemary Sutcliff, British author (b. 1920) July 24 Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898) Gavriil Ilizarov, Soviet physician and inventor (b. 1921) July 25 – Alfred Drake, American actor (b. 1914) July 26 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943) July 30 Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915) Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book artist (b. 1914) July 31 – Leonard Cheshire, British war hero, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1917) August August 2 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter (b. 1947) August 3 Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist politician (b. 1935) Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician (b. 1899) August 4 Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909) František Tomášek, Czech Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1899) August 5 Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1921) Jeff Porcaro, American musician (b. 1954) August 7 – Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, Spanish politician, former Foreign minister (b. 1930) August 8 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian-Iraqi Shia ayatollah and scholar (b. 1899) August 12 – John Cage, American composer (b. 1912) August 18 John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911) Chris McCandless, American hiker and explorer (b. 1968) August 29 – Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher and semiologist (b. 1930) September September 1 – Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909) September 2 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902) September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910) September 6 – Mervyn Johns, Welsh actor (b. 1899)