(b. 1927) August 12 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) August 16 Veda Ann Borg, American actress (b. 1915) Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888) August 17 Conrad Aiken, American writer (b. 1889) Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928) Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939) August 18 François Bonlieu, French Olympic alpine skier (b. 1937) Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1888) August 30 – Michael Dunn, American actor (b. 1934) August 31 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894) September September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892) September 11 – Salvador Allende, 30th President of Chile (b. 1908) September 12 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman (b. 1887) September 13 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913) September 15 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882) September 16 Rafael Franco, 33rd President of Paraguay (b. 1896) Víctor Jara, Chilean political activist and singer-songwriter (b. 1932) September 18 – Théo Lefèvre, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1914) September 19 – Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946) September 20 – Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943) September 22 – Paul van Zeeland, 29th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893) September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) September 24 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer, and activist against hunger (b. 1908) September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908) September 28 Norma Crane, American actress (b. 1928) Mantan Moreland, American actor and comedian (b. 1902) September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907) October October 1 – Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921) October 2 Paul Hartman, American dancer and actor (b. 1904) Paavo Nurmi, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1897) October 6 – François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944) October 8 – Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889) October 9 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer and guitarist (b. 1915) October 10 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881) October 16 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909) October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author (b. 1926) October 18 Leo Strauss, German-American political philosopher (b. 1899) Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b.