William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908) April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947) April 30 Lê Nguyên Vỹ, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1933) Lê Văn Hưng, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1933) Nguyễn Khoa Nam, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1927) Phạm Văn Phú, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1927) May May 1 – Trần Văn Hai, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1927) May 4 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897) May 8 – Avery Brundage, American administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887) May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901) May 14 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer (b. 1878) May 18 Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908) Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician (b. 1914) May 20 – Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903) May 22 Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900) Torben Meyer, Danish actor (b. 1884) May 28 Ezzard Charles, American boxer, former World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1921) Lung Chien, Chinese screenwriter and film director (b. 1916) May 30 Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951) Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895) June June 3 Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901) Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (b. 1906) June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1899) June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat (b. 1898) June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (b. 1884) June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina (b. 1910) June 15 – William Austin, English actor (b. 1884) June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883) June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. 1886) June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator (b. 1924) June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947) July July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907) July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1893) July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1898) July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director (b. 1924) July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893) July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928) July 21 – Billy West, American actor