Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Queen consort of Hungary and Empress consort of Austria (b. 1892) March 16 – Jesús María de Leizaola, Spanish politician (b. 1896) March 17 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959) March 20 – Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress (b. 1938) March 25 – Sa`id Al-Mufti, Jordanian political figure, 9th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1898) March 27 May Allison, American actress (b. 1890) Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936) March 29 Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916) Aleksandr Prokopenko, Soviet footballer (b. 1953) April April 1 – George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (b. 1926) April 3 – Mustafa Çağatay, Turkish-Cypriot politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1937) April 6 – Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, British army officer and politician (b. 1917) April 12 Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936) Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer (b. 1921) April 15 Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1915) Bernard-Marie Koltès, French playwright (b. 1948) April 19 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907) April 20 — Edward DeSaulnier, American politician (b. 1921) April 21 Princess Deokhye of Korea (b. 1912) James Kirkwood Jr., American playwright (b. 1924) April 22 – Emilio Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) April 23 Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, 1st President of Niger (b. 1916) Hu Die, Chinese actress (b. 1907) April 24 – Edgar Sanabria, Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, Interim President of Venezuela (b. 1911) April 25 – George Coulouris, British actor (b. 1903) April 26 – Lucille Ball, American actress, comedian and entertainer (b. 1911) April 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894) April 30 Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929) Guy Williams, Italian-born American actor (b. 1924) May May 1 – Edward Ochab, Polish activist and politician, 13th President of Poland (b. 1906) May 2 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1906) May 3 – Christine Jorgensen, Norwegian actress, singer and writer (b. 1926) May 9 – Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955) May 10 – Woody Shaw, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1944) May 15 – Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908) May 19 Anton Diffring, German actor (b. 1916) Robert Webber, American actor (b. 1924) May 20 John Hicks, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946) May 26 – Don Revie, English footballer and manager