Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913) July 10 – Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist (b. 1902) July 12 – John Warren Davis, American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (b. 1888) July 13 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921) July 17 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890) July 19 – Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912) July 20 – Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896) July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912) July 22 – Hans-Georg Bürger, German racing driver (b. 1952) July 24 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925) July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938) July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927) July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919) July 28 – Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908) July 30 – Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893) July 31 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902) August August 1 – Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944) August 4 – Ioan Arhip, Romanian general (b. 1890) August 9 Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897) Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906) August 10 Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946) Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917) August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960) August 18 – Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b. 1921) August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889) August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938) August 22 – Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile (b. 1898) August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919) August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator and director (b. 1908) August 29 – Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist and professor (b. 1924) September September 3 Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909) Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926) September 4 Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932) George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921) September 5 – Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923) September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) September 9 – Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922) September 12 – Lillian Randolph,