1902) January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904) January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902) January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899) January 28 – Klaus Fuchs, German-British physicist and spy (b. 1911) February 5 – Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British film producer (b. 1902) February 6 – Carmen Polo, wife of Francisco Franco (b. 1900) February 13 – Léon Goossens, British oboist (b. 1897) February 14 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901) February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) February 19 René Char, French poet (b. 1907) André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) March–April March 3 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894) March 7 – Divine, American singer and actor (b. 1945) March 8 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918) March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician, 28th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1904) March 10 Andy Gibb, English singer, songwriter, performer, and teen idol (b. 1958) Phạm Hùng, 3rd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1912) March 11 Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1930) Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1922) March 29 – Dulcie September, South African ANC activist (b. 1935; assassinated). March 30 – Edgar Faure, French politician, 69th Prime Minister of France (b. 1908) March 31 – Sir William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) April 12 – Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903) April 17 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor (b. 1900) April 18 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939) April 21 I. A. L. Diamond, American screenwriter (b. 1920) Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia (b. 1898) April 23 – Michael Ramsey, British Anglican bishop, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904) April 26 Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936) Valery Legasov, Soviet chemist, chief of the Chernobyl disaster investigation commission (b. 1936) April 28 – Fenner Brockway, British politician and anti-war activist (b. 1888) May–June May 3 Premendra Mitra, Indian poet, writer and film director (b. 1904) Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908) May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907) May 10 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902) May 11 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912) May