French Communist Party (born 1900) July 13 – Stephen Galatti, Director of AFS, American Field Service (born 1888) July 14 – Prince Axel of Denmark (born 1888) July 15 – Luis Batlle Berres, Uruguayan political figure, 30th President of Uruguay (born 1897) July 16 – Alfred Junge, German-born art director (born 1886) July 21 – Jean Fautrier, French painter and sculptor (born 1898) July 22 Leonid Baratov, Soviet director (born 1895) Gildo Bocci, Italian actor (born 1886) July 23 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet and politician (born 1876) July 25 – Sir John Latham, Australian judge and politician (born 1877) July 26 – William A. Seiter, American film director (born 1890) July 31 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (born 1923) August August 3 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (born 1925) August 6 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (born 1893) August 7 Salima Machamba, Sultan of Mohéli (born 1874) Aleksander Zawadzki, Polish politician, 12th President of Poland (born 1899) August 9 – Fontaine Fox, American cartoonist (born 1884) August 11 – André Aymard, French historian (born 1900) August 12 Isidro Fabela, Mexican judge and politician (born 1882) Ian Fleming, British writer (born 1908) Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Soviet astronomer and inventor (born 1896) August 13 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Indian musician (born 1878) August 14 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (born 1934) August 18 – Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, Afghani politician (born 1885) August 20 – Anthony de Francisci, Italian-born American sculptor (born 1887) August 21 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party (born 1893) August 22 – Symeon Lukach, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (born 1893) August 23 – Estella Canziani, British painter (born 1887) August 27 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian, known as part of the comedy duo Burns and Allen (born 1895) August 28 – Lumsden Hare, Irish-born actor, theatre director, and theatre producer August 30 – Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin, Soviet commander (born 1893) August 31 – Peter Lanyon, British painter (born 1918) September September 2 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (born 1900) Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese military officer and politician, 12th President of Portugal (born 1894) Alvin Cullum York, American hero of World War I (born 1887) September 9 Sir George Abercromby, 8th Baronet, British baronet (born 1886) Herschel Bennett, American baseball player of St. Louis Browns (born 1896) September 15 – Herbert Heywood, American actor (born 1881) September