la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1873) June 23 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875) June 25 Ernest King, American Navy Fleet Admiral and Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II (b. 1878) Michio Miyagi, Japanese musician (b. 1894) June 26 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930) June 28 – Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, British civil servant (b. 1869) July July 1 – Tawfik Abu Al-Huda, 4-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1894) July 7 – Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886) July 8 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, novelist (b. 1881) July 10 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898) July 11 – John T. Raulston, American Scopes Monkey Trial judge (b. 1868) July 12 – Sprague Cleghorn, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890) July 20 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868) July 24 – Géza Zemplén, Hungarian chemist (b. 1883) July 29 – Ludwig Klages, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1872) August August 2 – Albert Woolson, last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War (b. 1847) August 6 – Ioan Popovici, Romanian general (b. 1857) August 9 – Archie Cameron, Australian politician (b. 1895) August 11 Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) Mincho Neychev, former Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (head of state) of Bulgaria (b. 1887) August 14 Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898) Konstantin von Neurath, Nazi German diplomat and foreign minister (b. 1873) August 16 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American film actor (Dracula) (b. 1882) Lynde D. McCormick, American admiral (b. 1895) August 19 – Bernard Griffin, English Cardinal, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1899) August 23 – Peaches Browning, American actress (b. 1910) August 24 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898) August 25 – Alfred Kinsey, American sex researcher (b. 1894) September September 6 Lee Jung-seob, Korean oil painter (b. 1872) Felix Borowski, British-American composer and teacher (b. 1872) September 7 – C. B. Fry, English sportsman and writer (b. 1872) September 11 Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I flying ace (b. 1894) Lucien Febvre, French historian (b. 1878) September 20 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian (b. 1897) September 22 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) September 27 Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (b. 1924) Babe Didrikson Zaharias,