and college professor December 27 – Barbara Olson, American television commentator (d. 2001) December 28 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2017) December 31 – Jim Tracy, American baseball player and manager Deaths January January 1 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian scientist (b. 1894) January 2 – José Antonio Remón Cantera, 19th President of Panama (assassinated) (b. 1908) January 6 – Yevgeny Tarle, Soviet historian (b. 1874) January 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (b. 1882) January 15 Johannes Baader, German artist (b. 1875) Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900) January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880) January 22 – Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892) January 24 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (b. 1923) January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, 14th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1903) January 31 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865) February February 3 - Vasily Blokhin, Soviet executioner (b. 1895) February 6 – Constantin Argetoianu, 41st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1871) February 10 – Mokichi Okada, Japanese religious leader (b. 1882) February 11 – Ona Munson, American actress (b. 1903) February 12 Tom Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1883) S. Z. Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883) February 20 – Oswald Avery, American physician and medical researcher (b. 1877) February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat (b. 1868) February 27 – Trixie Friganza, American actress (b. 1870) March March 3 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic foundress and saint (b. 1858) March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director (b. 1878) March 9 Miroslava Stern, Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (b. 1926) Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866) March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881) March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920) March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian painter (b. 1914) March 19 – Mihály Károlyi, 1st President of Hungary and 20th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875) March 23 – Arthur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875) March 24 – John W. Davis, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (b. 1873) April April 5 – Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918) April 7 – Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885) April 10 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist