Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897) September 21 – Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (b. 1951) September 22 Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908) Dan Rowan, American comedian (b. 1922) Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (b. 1929) September 23 Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927) Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (b. 1953) September 25 Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906) Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor (b. 1905) September 29 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917) September 30 – Alfred Bester, American author (b. 1913) October October 2 Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906) Sir Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915) October 3 Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b. 1910) Catherine Bramwell-Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1883) Hans Gál, composer, teacher and author (b. 1890) October 8 Spencer Gordon Bennet, American film producer (b. 1893) Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899) October 9 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892) October 11 – Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (b. 1941) October 12 Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887) Fahri Korutürk, Turkish diplomat, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903) October 13 Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) Kishore Kumar, Indian actor and playback singer (b. 1929) October 15 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe politician, 5th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and 2nd President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949) October 19 Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b. 1945) Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909) October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903) October 22 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919) October 27 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (b. 1911) October 28 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896) October 29 – Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913) October 30 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904) November November 1 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922) November 5 – Georges Franju, French filmmaker (b. 1912) November 6 Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955) Jean Rivier, French composer of classical music (b. 1896) November 7 – Arne Borg, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1901) November 10 – Seyni Kountché, Nigerien military officer and statesman, 2nd President of