Minister of Belgium (b. 1873) January 10 – Ignacy Oziewicz, Polish general (b. 1887) January 11 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901) Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1889) Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian activist, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904) January 14 Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. 1907) Bill Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909) January 15 Samuel Akintola, Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (assassinated) (b. 1910) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigerian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Nigeria (assassinated) (b. 1912) Ahmadu Bello, Nigerian premier of the Northern region (assassinated) (b. 1910) January 16 – Courtney Hodges, American army general (b. 1887) January 17 – Vincent J. Donehue, American stage director (b. 1917) January 18 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880) January 22 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890) January 25 – Saul Adler, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (b. 1895) January 31 Elizabeth Patterson, American actress (b. 1875) Arthur Percival, British general (b.1887) February February 1 Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist (b. 1885) Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895) Joseph R. Knowland, American politician and newspaper publisher (b. 1873) February 3 – June Walker, American actress (b. 1900) February 5 – Louisa Martindale, British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (b. 1872) February 6 – Narcisa de León, Filipino film producer (b. 1877) February 9 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1886) February 10 J. F. C. Fuller, British general and military strategist (b. 1878) Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899) February 12 – Wilhelm Röpke, German economist (b. 1899) February 15 Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909) Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian socialist and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1929) February 17 Alfred P. Sloan, American automobile industrialist (b. 1875) Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880) February 18 – Robert Rossen, American film director (b. 1908) February 20 – Chester W. Nimitz, American Navy admiral (b. 1885) February 25 – Victor Kravchenko, Soviet writer (b. 1905) February 26 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (b. 1883) Gino Severini, Italian painter (b. 1883) February 28 Charles Bassett, American astronaut (b. 1931) Jonathan Hale, American actor (b. 1891) Elliot See, American astronaut (b. 1927) March March 1 Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903) William R. Munroe, American admiral (b. 1886) Donald Stewart,