Boero, Argentine composer (b. 1884) August 12 – Augustus Owsley Stanley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1867) August 14 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900) August 16 José Domingues dos Santos, Portuguese politician, 89th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1885) Paul Panzer, German actor (b. 1872) August 18 – Bonar Colleano, American actor (b. 1924) August 21 Stevan Hristić, Yugoslav composer (b. 1885) Kurt Neumann, German film director (b. 1908) August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) August 24 Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876) J. G. Strijdom, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1893) August 26 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872) August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) August 29 – Marjorie Flack, American artist, illustrator and writer (b. 1897) September September 3 – Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, British army general (b. 1889) September 11 Hans Grundig, German artist (b. 1901) Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874) September 16 – Alma Bennett, American actress (b. 1904) September 23 Alfred Piccaver, British-born American operatic tenor (b. 1884) Walter Friedrich Otto, German classical philologist (b. 1874) September 25 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878) September 27 – Adolfo Salazar, Spanish historian, composer and diplomat (b. 1890) September 30 – Estate Tatanashvili, Soviet general (b. 1902) October October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876) October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876) October 14 – Sir Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist and polar explorer (b. 1882) October 15 – Jack Norton, American actor (b. 1882) October 16 – Michalis Souyioul, Greek composer (b. 1906) October 17 Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1876) Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876) Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896) October 24 – G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia Ethica) (b. 1873) October 26 – Herbert A. Bartholomew, American farmer and politician (b. 1871) October 29 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and author (b. 1886) November November 4 – Sam Zimbalist, American film producer (b. 1904) November 8 – C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist (b. 1878) November 11 – André Bazin, French film critic and theorist (b. 1918) November 15 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914) November 16 – Samuel Hopkins Adams, American writer (b.