Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer (b. 1936) July 21 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929) Edward B. Lewis, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1918) July 22 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933) July 28 – Francis Crick, English Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1916) July 31 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917) August August 1 – Philip Abelson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913) August 3 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908) August 6 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948) August 8 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907) August 12 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English Nobel electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1919) August 13 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912) August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer (b. 1911) August 15 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1916) August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922) August 24 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926) August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1952) August 30 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906) September September 7 – Munir Said Thalib, Indonesian human right activist (b. 1965) September 8 – Frank Thomas, American animator and pianist (b. 1912) September 11 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949) September 13 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925) September 15 Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (b. 1948) Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (b. 1946) September 18 Russ Meyer, American director and photographer (b. 1922) Klara Rumyanova, Soviet and Russian actress and singer (b. 1929) September 20 Brian Clough, British football manager (b. 1935) Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, the second human to orbit the Earth (b. 1935) September 22 – Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925) September 23 – Bryce DeWitt, American theoretical physicist (b. 1923) September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935) October October 1 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923) October 3 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927) October 4 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927) October 5 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921) Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born Nobel physicist (b. 1916) October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (b. 1930) October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952) October 11 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919) October 25 – John Peel, British radio disc jockey (b. 1939) October 29 – Princess Alice,