Bert Niehoff, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1884) Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, Little Jimmy (b. 1875) September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892) September 11 – Robert Nodar Jr., American Republican politician from New York and its member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1916) September 12 Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900) Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918) September 15 – René Capistrán Garza, Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1898) September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885) September 17 – Claudia Morgan, American actress, The Edge of Night in the 1950s (b. 1912) September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900) September 19 Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918) Zack Taylor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898) September 20 Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor (b. 1896) Sir Arthur Rylah, Australian lawyer and politician. (b. 1909) September 21 Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best Supporting Academy Award-winning actor (1936, 1938, and 1940) (b. 1894) Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918) September 22 Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888) George Spahn, American rancher connected to the Manson family (b. 1889) September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who created the character Charlie Weaver (b. 1905) September 24 – Dorothy Stone, American actress (b. 1905) September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912) September 27 Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and lawyer (b. 1907) James R. Webb, American soldier and screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for How the West Was Won (b. 1909) September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889) September 30 Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915) Sofía Cuthbert, wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918) October October 1 Stephen Latchford, American diplomat and aviation expert (b. 1883) Frederick Moosbrugger, American admiral (b. 1900) October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter, and director from the Altai region (b. 1929) October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce, American historian (b. 1888) October 4 Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician (b. 1882) Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928) October 5 Virgil Miller, American cinematographer (b. 1886) Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1889) October 6 – V. K. Krishna