Minter, American actress (b. 1902) August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925) August 8 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1922) August 11 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916) August 13 Clyde Cook, Australian actor (b. 1891) Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929) August 14 – J. B. Priestley, British novelist and playwright (b. 1894) August 25 Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924) Viktor Chukarin, Russian Olympic gymnast (b. 1921) August 28 – Mohammed Naguib, 30th Prime Minister of Egypt and 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901) August 29 – Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese politician, founder of the Kataeb Party (b. 1905) September September 1 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898) September 5 Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917) Jane Roberts, American writer (b. 1929) September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914) September 7 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906) September 8 – Frank Lowson, English Test Cricketer 1951–1955 (b.1925) September 9 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish film director (b. 1937) September 10 – Ismael Merlo, Spanish actor (b. 1918) September 12 – Yvon Petra, French tennis player (b. 1916) September 14 Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (b. 1935) Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (b. 1906) September 16 – Vincenzo Cotroni, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1911) September 17 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914) September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948) September 24 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899) September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897) September 27 – Toke Townley, English actor (b. 1912) October October 1 Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911) Blagoje Marjanović, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1907) October 4 – Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1901) October 5 – Leonard Rossiter, British actor (b. 1926) October 6 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (b. 1902) October 13 – George Kelly, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1895) October 14 – Sir Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918) October 16 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (b. 1932) October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957) October 19