– John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886) June 27 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902) Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897) June 30 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873) July July 1 Nasuhi al-Bukhari, Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1881) Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894) July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899) July 4 – Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878) July 6 Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) Woodall Rodgers, American politician, 43rd Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890) July 9 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case July 15 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) July 17 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1886) July 23 Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885) Valentine Davies, American screenwriter (b. 1905) Princess Teru of Japan (b. 1925) July 28 – Harry Gribbon, American actor of silent films (b. 1885) July 30 – Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (b. 1882) August August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892) August 4 Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889) Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873) August 5 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893) August 8 – Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894) August 9 – Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895) August 11 – William Jackson, American gangster (b. 1920) August 14 Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877) Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893) August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) August 23 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879) August 26 Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903) Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924) August 30 Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877) Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894) September September 1 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910) September 3 Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934) September 4 – Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875) September 7 – Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885) September 16 Percy Chapman, English