footballer December 23 – Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, singer-songwriter and First Lady of France Deaths January January 3 Mary Garden, Scottish-American opera singer (b. 1874) Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner and convicted criminal, best known as the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) January 4 – Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921) January 9 – Waldo Frank, American novelist and historian (b. 1889) January 12 – Holland Smith, American general (b. 1882) January 14 – Miklós Kállay, 34th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1887) January 17 Evelyn Nesbit, American actress and model (b. 1884) Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909) January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915) January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (b. 1899) January 23 – Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (b. 1878) January 24 – Luigi Federzoni, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1878) January 27 Crew of Apollo 1 (launch pad fire): Ed White, American astronaut (b. 1930) Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926) Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935) David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer, and judge (b. 1900) Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888) Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1938) January 28 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (b. 1877) January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908) February February 3 – Joe Meek, English record producer and sound engineer (b. 1929) February 6 Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920) Henry Morgenthau Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891) February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872) February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893) February 13 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889) February 14 Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet, writer and filmmaker (b. 1934) Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884) February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887) February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911) February 17 – Ciro Alegría, Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist (b. 1909) February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904) February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929) February 24 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906) February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898) March March 2 Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885) José Martínez Ruiz, 'Azorín', Spanish writer (b. 1873) March 5 Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)