former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1916) April 23 – Johnny Thunders, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1952) April 26 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909) May May 1 Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898) Richard Thorpe, American film director (b. 1896) May 3 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American writer (b. 1933) May 4 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1902) May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903) May 8 Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907) Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903) May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of Mao Zedong (b. 1914) May 15 Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (b. 1924) Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935) May 21 Lino Brocka, Filipino film director (b. 1939) Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944) May 22 Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905) Stan Mortensen, English footballer (b. 1921) May 23 Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907) Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895) May 24 – Gene Clark, American singer (b. 1944) May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913) May 31 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (b. 1913) June June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941) June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899) June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927) June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903) June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907) June 15 Happy Chandler, 2nd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1898) W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922) June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900) June 20 – Harry Collinson, planning officer June 24 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899) June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910) June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1901) July July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor, writer, director, and producer (b. 1936) July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935) July 5 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901) July 6 Mudashiru Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954) Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Communist politician, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria