(b. 1902) DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b. 1889) March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster (b. 1904) April April 3 – Juan Trippe, airline entrepreneur (b. 1899) April 5 Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete (b. 1900) Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1896) Bob Hite, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943) April 6 – Alfredo Guarini, Italian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1901) April 7 – Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899) April 8 Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian entomologist (b. 1895) Omar Bradley, American army general (b. 1893) April 12 Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914) Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1892) April 13 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887) April 15 John Thach, American naval aviator and admiral (b. 1905) Lorenzo Guerrero, former President of Nicaragua (b. 1900) April 17 – Ludwik Sempoliński, Polish actor (b. 1899) April 18 – James H. Schmitz, German-born writer (b. 1911) April 22 – Marcia King, murder victim (b. 1959) April 23 Nietta Zocchi, Italian actress (b. 1909) Josep Pla, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1897) April 26 Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909) Madge Evans, American actress (b. 1909) Muhammad Lafir, Sri Lankan snooker player (b. 1930) April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916) April 28 – Cliff Battles, American football player (Boston Redskins) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1910) May May 1 – Barry Jones, American actor (b. 1893) May 3 – Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929) May 5 – Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1954) May 6 – Frank O'Grady, Australian public servant (b. 1900) May 7 – Hiromichi Yahara, Imperial Japanese Army officer (b. 1902) May 8 – Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1897) May 9 Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909) Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910) May 11 Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) Bob Marley, Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1945) May 12 – Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean politician and professor, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907) May 13 – Ben Andrews, American actor (b. 1942) May 14 – J. Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1912) May 17 – Hugo Friedhofer, German-American film composer (b. 1901) May 18 Eleonore Baur, German Nazi and only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (b. 1885) Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908) William Saroyan, American author