H. Corbett, English actor and comedian (b. 1925) March 22 – Pericle Felici, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1911) March 26 Sultan al-Atrash, Syrian nationalist and general (b. 1891) Sam Kydd, Irish-born English actor (b. 1915) March 27 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-born American architect (b. 1929) March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) March 29 Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895) Walter Hallstein, German diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901) Helene Deutsch, Polish-American psychoanalyst (b. 1884) April April 3 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928) April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910) April 9 – Robert Havemann, chemist and East German dissident (b. 1910) April 12 – Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945) April 15 Riccardo Billi, Italian actor (b. 1906) Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915) April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet (b. 1892) April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1896) April 25 Boris Andreyev, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1915) Celia Johnson, British actress (b. 1908) April 29 Kassim Al-Rimawi, 52nd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1918) Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach (b. 1891) May May 1 Hussein ibn Nasser, 36th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1902) William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903) May 3 – Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, Algerian politician (b. 1898) May 8 Salomea Andronikova, Georgian-Russian socialite (b. 1888) Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1950) May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916) May 12 – Humphrey Searle, English composer (b. 1915) May 13 Aleksandr Borisov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1905) Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer (b. 1908) May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909) May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (racing accident) (b. 1946) May 22 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish army officer and political leader, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899) May 24 – Stanisława Perzanowska, Polish actress (b. 1898) May 26 – Guillermo Flores Avendaño, acting President of Guatemala (b. 1894) May 28 – Lt Col H. Jones, VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940) May 29 – Romy Schneider, German-French actress (b. 1938) May 30 – Albert Norden, German politician (b. 1904) June June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904) June 8 – Satchel Paige, American Negro league baseball player and a member of the MLB