1879) January 4 Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1913) Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (b. 1895) January 5 – Donald Knight, English cricketer (b. 1894) January 7 – Dorothea Chambers, English tennis champion (b. 1878) January 8 – Ion Codreanu, Romanian general (b. 1891) January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, English children's novelist (b. 1880) January 10 – Arthur S. Carpender, American admiral (b. 1884) January 11 – Isabel Emslie Hutton, Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (b. 1887) January 12 – Nevil Shute, English-born novelist (b. 1899) January 19 – Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker (b. 1890) January 24 Matt Moore, Irish-American actor (b. 1888) Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886) January 25 Diana Barrymore, American stage and film actress (b. 1921) Rutland Boughton, English composer (b. 1878) Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist (b. 1889) January 27 – Osvaldo Aranha, Brazilian politician (b. 1894) January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist, anthropologist and author (b. 1891) January 30 – J. C. Kumarappa, Indian economist (b. 1892) February February 2 – Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha, Hindu teacher (b. 1884) February 3 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921) February 6 – Jesse Belvin, American urban singer (b. 1932) February 7 – Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (b. 1903) February 8 J. L. Austin, British philosopher (b. 1911) Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880) February 9 Adolph Coors III, American brewer and kidnap victim (b. 1916) Ernst von Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877) February 10 – Aloysius Stepinac, Yugoslav Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1898) February 12 – Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (b. 1913) February 14 – Masatomi Kimura, Japanese admiral (b. 1891) February 20 Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880) Adone Zoli, Italian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1887) February 29 Jacques Becker, French director (b. 1906) Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1901), last Vicereine of India Melvin Purvis, American lawman and FBI agent (b. 1903) Walter Yust, American encyclopedia editor (b. 1894) March March 2 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874) March 4 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer (b. 1911) March 9 – Jack Beattie, Irish politician (b. 1886) March 11 Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, adventurer and naturalist (b. 1884) Takuma Kajiwara, Japanese-born American photographer (b.1876) March 13 Louis Wagner, French Grand Prix racer, aviator (b. 1882) Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and