(b. 1922) Muhammad Sakizli, 2nd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1892) January 15 – Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1882) January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886) January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1896) January 23 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and activist (b. 1898) January 24 – Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b. 1904) January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907) January 29 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896) January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right (b. 1941) February February 1 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) Hans Hofmann, German artist (b. 1880) George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878) February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1906) February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b. 1925) February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b. 1908) February 11 Lee J. Cobb, American actor (b. 1911) Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1894) Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Mathematician and biochemical theorist (b. 1894) February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939) February 13 Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general (b. 1938) Lily Pons, French-American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1898) February 17 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (b. 1910) February 20 René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887) Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and faith healer (b. 1907) February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943) February 23 – L. S. Lowry, British artist (b. 1887) February 26 – Frieda Inescort, Scottish-born actress (b. 1901) March March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886) March 5 Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1910) Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889) March 6 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1907) March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908) March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, Swedish illustrator and American artist (b. 1899) March 14 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895) March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906) March 19 – Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (b. 1950) March 21 – Vladimir Peter "Spider" Sabich, American alpine pro