record producer (b. 1964) July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967) July 19 – Kazimierz Sabbat, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1913) July 20 Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (b. 1913) Mary Treen, American actress (b. 1907) July 22 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935) July 23 Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931) Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (b. 1921) July 24 – Ernie Morrison, American actor (b. 1912) August August 1 – John Ogdon, British pianist (b. 1937) August 12 – William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) August 13 Hugo del Carril, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer (b. 1912) Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955) August 14 – Robert Bernard Anderson, American political figure (b. 1910) August 15 – Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (b. 1904) August 16 Jean-Hilaire Aubame, French-born Gabonese politician (b. 1912) Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929) August 18 – Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian politician (b. 1943) August 20 George Adamson, Indian-born American conservationist (b. 1906) Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (b. 1900) August 21 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian rock singer (b. 1945) August 22 Huey P. Newton, African-American political activist (b. 1942) Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (b. 1929) August 23 – R. D. Laing, British psychiatrist (b. 1927) August 26 – Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903) August 27 – Luiz Luz, Brazilian footballer (b. 1909) August 29 Pua Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902) Sir Peter Scott, British naturalist, artist and explorer (b. 1909) September September 4 Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (b. 1903) Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903) September 13 – Charles H. Russell, American politician, 20th Governor of Nevada (b. 1903) September 14 – Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916) September 15 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905) September 22 – Irving Berlin, American composer (b. 1888) September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917) September 30 Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896) Huỳnh Tấn Phát, Vietnamese politician, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1913) October October 2 Paola Barbara, Italian actress (b. 1912) Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921) October 4 Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941) Secretariat, American Thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1970) October 6 – Bette Davis, American actress