Oswald, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880) Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889) September 17 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882) September 19 – David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891) September 25 Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886) Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895) September 30 – Paul Alexiu, Romanian general (b. 1893) October October 4 Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883) Kate Gordon Moore, American psychologist (b. 1878) October 7 – Gustaf Gründgens, German actor (b. 1899) October 9 – Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (b. 1938) October 10 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915) October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889) October 15 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (b. 1888) October 20 – Diana Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1909) October 21 – Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940-1945) (b. 1884) October 24 Karl Bühler, German psychologist and linguist (b. 1879) Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933) October 25 Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898) Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879) Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883) October 28 – Jack E. Bairstow, American politician and lawyer (b. 1902) October 29 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) October 30 Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician (b. 1866) Saburō Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1872) October 31 – Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894) November November 1 Hồ Tấn Quyền, South Vietnamese Navy officer (assassinated) (b. 1927) Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese Army officer (assassinated) (b. 1923) Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and hostess (b. 1883) November 2 Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (assassinated) (b. 1901) Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician (assassinated) (b. 1910) November 4 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico 1930-1932 (b. 1877) November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902) November 12 José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (b. 1925) John R. Hodge, United States Army general (b. 1893) November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) November 16 – Albert H. Pearson, American politician (b. 1920) November 19 – Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918) November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890) November 22 Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b.