Prize laureate (b. 1886) September 27 – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (b. 1897) September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912) September 30 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) October October 4 – Roy L. Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (b. 1961) October 8 – Karl Swenson, American actor (b. 1908) October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (b. 1929) October 10 Ralph Metcalfe, American Olympic athlete (b. 1910) Hermes Lima, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Brazil (b. 1902) October 11 – Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (b. 1914) October 12 – Nancy Spungen, American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958) October 15 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918) October 16 – Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1915) October 19 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913) October 21 – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (b. 1895) October 23 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896) October 28 – Geoffrey Unsworth, British cinematographer (b. 1914) November November 4 – Arshad al-Umari, 15th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1888) November 8 – Norman Rockwell, American artist (b. 1894) November 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor (b. 1903) November 15 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901) November 18 Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925) Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931) November 20 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888) November 24 – Warren Weaver, American scientist and mathematician (b. 1894) November 27 – George Moscone, American politician and then-mayor of San Francisco November 27 – Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (b. 1930) December December 3 – William Grant Still, American composer (b. 1895) December 7 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and avian palaeontologist (b. 1886) December 8 – Golda Meir, Israeli teacher, politician and stateswoman, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898) December 10 Emilio Portes Gil, Acting president of Mexico, 1928-1930 (b. 1890) Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor and author (b. 1924) December 11 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist (b. 1901) December 12 – Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894) December 14 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist (b. 1886) December 17 Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) Josef Frings, German cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1887) December 22 – Olaf M. Hustvedt, American admiral (b. 1886) December 27 Chris