February 6 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (b. 1932) February 8 William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901) Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913) February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898) February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924) February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904) February 21 Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893) Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909) John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907) February 22 Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist (b. 1889) Alexander Scourby, American film, television, and voice actor (b. 1913) February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) February 27 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902) J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904) March March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916) March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908) March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914) March 10 Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911) Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927) March 11 Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931) Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902) March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899) March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891) March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921) March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896) March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908) March 23 Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913) Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925) March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887) March 29 The Singing Nun (Jeannine Deckers), Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933) Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911) March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914) March 31 Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883) Richard McKeon, American philosopher (b. 1900) April April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author (b. 1891) April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900) April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901) April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888) April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean statesman (b. 1898) April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist politician, leader of the Party of Labour 22nd