Italian Fascist journalist and politician (b. 1895) January 10 – Colin Gregory, Australian tennis player (b. 1903) January 14 Eivind Berggrav, Norwegian Lutheran bishop and reverend (b. 1884) G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist, economist and historian (b. 1889) January 16 – Eduardo Braun-Menéndez, Argentine physiologist (b. 1903) January 19 – Jennie Ross Cobb, American photographer (b. 1881) January 20 – Roger Gray, American actor (b. 1881) January 21 Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881) Frances Gertrude McGill, Canadian forensic pathologist (b. 1882) Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927) January 22 Elisabeth Moore, American tennis champion (b. 1876) Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929) January 25 – William Flannery, American director (b. 1898) January 26 Margaret Elizabeth Egan, American librarian (b. 1905) MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1882) January 28 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899) February February 1 – Frank Shannon, Irish-born American actor (b. 1874) February 3 – Killed in the crash of a private plane: The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American rock singer (b. 1930) Buddy Holly, American rock singer (b. 1936) Ritchie Valens, American rock singer (b. 1941) February 3 Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1891) Herbert Greenwald, American real estate developer (b. 1915) Francesco De Robertis, Italian screenwriter, editor and director (b. 1902) Beulah Zachary, American television director and producer (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1911) February 4 Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880) Robert Emerson, American scientist (b. 1903) February 7 Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874) D. F. Malan, South African politician, 4th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874) February 11 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1921) February 12 – George Antheil, American composer (b. 1900) February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898) February 15 Ralph Eastwood, British army officer (b. 1890) Sir Owen Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) February 17 – Luigi Emanueli, Italian engineer (b. 1883) February 18 – Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer (b. 1869) February 20 Gregório Bondar, Russian-Brazilian agronomist (b. 1881) Laurence Housman, English playwright and writer (b. 1865) February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress (b. 1924) February 23 Pierre Frieden, Luxembourgish politician and writer, 18th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1892) Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet (b.