player (b. 1940) January 21 – Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (b. 1936) January 23 – Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor (b. 1924) January 26 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (b. 1912) January 27 – Sally Hayfron, First Lady of Zimbabwe (b. 1933) January 29 – Willie Dixon, American blues composer and musician (b. 1915) February February 4 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911) February 10 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921) February 11 – Ray Danton, American actor (b. 1931) February 12 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907) February 13 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909) February 15 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910) February 16 Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (b. 1940) Abbas al-Musawi, Lebanese Shia cleric and Secretary General of Hezbollah (b. 1952) Jânio Quadros, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917) February 20 Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (b. 1944) Dick York, American actor (b. 1928) February 22 – Sudirman Arshad, Malaysian singer and songwriter (b. 1954) February 23 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek Communist leader (b. 1906) February 27 – Algirdas Julien Greimas, French-Lithuanian literary scientist (b. 1917) March March 2 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937) March 4 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930) March 9 – Menachem Begin, Israel politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913) March 11 László Benedek, Hungarian film director (b. 1905) Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912) March 14 – Jean Poiret, French actor, screenwriter. and director (b. 1926) March 17 – Jack Arnold, American television and film director (b. 1912) March 19 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (b. 1926) March 20 Lina Bo Bardi, Italian-born Brazilian architect (b. 1914) Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925) March 21 – John Ireland, Canadian actor (b. 1914) March 23 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) March 25 – Nancy Walker, American actress and comedian (b. 1922) March 27 – Harald Sæverud, Norwegian composer (b. 1897) March 28 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909) March 29 – Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1908) March 30 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919) April April 2 – Juan Gómez González, Juanito, Spanish footballer (b. 1954) April 4 – Samuel Reshevsky, Polish chess player, seven-time U.S. Chess Champion (b. 1911) April 5 – Sam Walton, American