February 21 – Mart Stam, Dutch architect (b. 1899) February 24 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of medicare" in Canada (b. 1904) February 25 – Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (b. 1927) February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929) February 28 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927) March March 4 Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943) Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936) March 6 Adolph Caesar, American actor (b. 1933) Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887) Zhu Guangqian, Chinese esthetician, modern literary theorist, and famous scholar (b.1897) March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1907) March 13 – Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician, 20 July Plotter (b. 1906) March 15 – Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, Mexican Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1895) March 17 – John Bagot Glubb, British soldier (b. 1897) March 18 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914) March 19 – Jon Lormer, American actor (b. 1906) March 22 Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903) Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (b. 1902) March 23 Moshe Feinstein, Orthodox rabbi (b. 1895) Anastasia Zuyeva, Soviet actress (b. 1896) March 24 – Michael, Prince of Montenegro (b. 1908) March 28 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (b. 1919) March 29 – Harry Ritz, American actor (b. 1907) March 30 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (b. 1899) March 31 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925) April April 1 – Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur and choreographer (b. 1928) April 3 – Sir Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910) April 7 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) April 8 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967) April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908) April 15 Jean Genet, French writer (b. 1910) Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944) Robert Marjolin, French economist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the OECD (b. 1911) April 17 Paul Costello, American Olympic rower – double sculls (b. 1894) Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b. 1892) Bessie Head, South African writer (b. 1937) April 19 – Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907) April 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (b. 1908) April 21 – Teodoro Casana Robles, Peruvian lawyer, historian, journalist, archaeologist, photographer and geographer (b. 1900) April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of