April 29 – Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, Spanish journalist and novelist (born 1885) May May 2 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (born 1879) May 5 – Tadao Ikeda, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1905) May 6 – José Maza Fernández, Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat (born 1889) May 8 – Kichisaburō Nomura, Japanese admiral and diplomat (born 1877) May 10 – Carol Haney, American dancer and actress (born 1924) May 13 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (born 1906) May 17 – Steve Owen, American football coach (New York Giants) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1898) May 20 – Rudy Lewis, American rhythm and blues singer (born 1936) May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882) May 26 – Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (born 1906) May 27 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889) May 30 Dave MacDonald, American sports car driver (born 1936) Eddie Sachs, American auto racing driver (born 1927) Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born American physicist (born 1898) June June 3 Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, French army officer (born 1892) Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888) June 6 Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1886) Robert Warwick, American actor (born 1878) June 7 Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee, wife of former British PM Clement Attlee (born 1895) Charlie Llewellyn, first non-white South African Test cricketer (born 1876) June 8 – Carlos Quintanilla , 37th President of Bolivia (born 1888) June 9 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British newspaper publisher and politician (born 1879) June 11 Catharine Carter Critcher, American painter (born 1868) John Eke, Swedish Olympic athlete (born 1886) Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai field marshal and 3rd Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1897) June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (born 1890) June 24 – Stuart Davis, American painter (born 1892) June 25 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (born 1888) June 27 Salvatore Aldisio, Italian politician (born 1890) Mona Barrie, English actress (born 1909) June 29 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist (born 1928) July July 1 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (born 1875) July 2 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver and a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame (born 1929) July 6 – Zeng Junchen, Sichuan's 'King of Opium' (born 1888) July 7 – Lillian Copeland, American athlete (born 1904) July 11 – Maurice Thorez, leader of the