(b. 1892) July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach (b. 1924) July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1921) August August 3 Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet (b. 1901) Jack Molinas, American basketball player (b. 1931) August 6 – Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince, military aviator (b. 1886) August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1906) August 10 – Anthony McAuliffe, American general (b. 1898) August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. 1885) August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (b. 1920) August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927) August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895) August 19 Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937) Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (b. 1882) Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909) August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b. 1902) August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer (b. 1894) August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1896) August 27 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892) August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907) August 29 Charles C. Bass, American physician and medical researcher (b. 1875) Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882) September September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881) September 9 Minta Durfee, American actress (b. 1889) Ethel Griffies, British actress (b. 1878) September 10 – Sir George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour (b. 1895) September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917) September 20 Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (b. 1908) Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900) September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. 1905) September 27 Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947) Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876) September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890) October October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France (b. 1905) October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886) October