Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881) August 30 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915) August 31 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (b. 1908) September September 3 – Juan José Castro, Argentine composer and conductor (b. 1895) September 7 – Lucio Fontana, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) September 13 – Frank Barson, English footballer (b. 1891) September 17 – Armand Blanchonnet, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1903) September 18 Franchot Tone, American actor (b. 1905) Francis McDonald, American actor (b. 1891) September 19 Chester Carlson, American physicist, and inventor (b. 1906) Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910) September 23 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1887) September 24 – Virginia Valli, American actress (b. 1898) September 28 – Sir Norman Brookes, Australian tennis champion (b. 1877) October October 1 – Romano Guardini, Italian-German Catholic priest and theologian (b. 1885) October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887) October 4 Francis Biddle, American politician (b. 1886) Hitoshi Imamura, Japanese general (b. 1886) October 13 Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator (b. 1886) Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906) John L. Hines, American general, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (b. 1868) October 15 Franz Beyer, German general (b. 1892) Herbert Copeland, American biologist (b. 1902) October 18 – Lee Tracy, American actor (b. 1898) October 26 – Sergei Bernstein, Russian and Soviet mathematician (b. 1880) October 27 – Lise Meitner, German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b. 1878) October 28 – Hans Cramer, German general (b. 1896) October 30 Rose Wilder Lane, American author (b. 1886) Ramon Novarro, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1899) Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890) November November 1 – Georgios Papandreou, 3-Time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888) November 6 – Charles Munch, French conductor (b. 1891) November 7 – Alexander Gelfond, Soviet mathematician (b. 1906) November 8 – Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914) November 9 Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931) Gerald Mohr, American actor (b. 1914) November 11 – Jeanne Demessieux, French composer (b. 1921) November 14 – Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Spanish philologist and historian (b. 1869) November 15 – Charles Bacon, American athlete (b. 1885) November 16 Augustin Bea, German cardinal (b. 1881) Carl Bertilsson, Swedish gymnast (b. 1889) November 17 – Mervyn Peake, English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1911) November 18 – Walter Wanger, American film producer (b.