August 9 – Ernst von Salomon, German writer (b. 1902) August 11 – Max Theiler, South African-born American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) August 14 Oscar Levant, American pianist and actor (b. 1906) Jules Romains, French poet and writer (b. 1885) August 16 – Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905) August 19 – Rudolf Belling, German sculptor (b. 1886) August 20 – Juan Manuel Gálvez, 39th President of Honduras (b. 1887) August 24 – Jinichi Kusaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) August 26 – Francis Chichester, British sailor and aviator (b. 1901) August 28 – Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941) August 29 – René Leibowitz, French composer (b. 1913) September September 1 – He Xiangning, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter and poet (b. 1878) September 5 (Munich massacre): Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940) Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939) September 6 (Munich massacre): David Mark Berger, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) Ze'ev Friedman, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling referee (b. 1931) Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948) Amitzur Shapira, Israeli athletics coach (b. 1932) Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919) Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954) Andre Spitzer, Israeli fencing coach (b. 1945) September 8 – Warren Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1903) September 12 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895) September 15 Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (b. 1894) Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887) September 17 – Akim Tamiroff, Armenian actor (b. 1899) September 19 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899) September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896) September 25 – Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883) October October 1 – Louis Leakey, British paleontologist (b. 1903) October 5 – Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (b. 1908) October 9 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) October 10 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish army officer, economist and astronomer (b. 1880) October 16 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886) October 17 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) October 20 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885) October 24 Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player (b. 1919) Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892) October 26 – Igor Sikorsky, Soviet aviation engineer (b. 1889) October 28 – Mitchell Leisen, American film director (b. 1898) November November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885) November 5 –