poet (b. 1923) August 15 Jan Kiepura, Polish tenor and actor (b. 1902) Seena Owen, American actress (b. 1894) August 17 – Ken Miles, British sports car racing engineer and driver (b. 1918) August 19 – Fritz Bleyl, German painter (b. 1880) August 23 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883) August 24 Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Polish general and statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1895) Vicente Mejía Colindres, 29th President of Honduras (b. 1878) August 26 – Art Baker, American actor (b. 1898) September September 6 Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879) Hendrik Verwoerd, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901) September 14 Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899) Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard (b. 1881) Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Turkey and 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895) September 17 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930) September 19 – Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Soviet scientist and general (b. 1874) September 21 – Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 77th Prime Minister of France (b. 1878) September 26 Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, Indian Independence activist (b. 1900) Helen Kane, American singer (b. 1904) September 28 André Breton, French poet and writer (b. 1896) Eric Fleming, American actor (b. 1925) October October 10 Charlotte Cooper, English tennis champion (b. 1870) Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900) October 13 – Clifton Webb, American actor, dancer and singer (b. 1889) October 16 – George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899) October 17 – Cléo de Mérode, French dancer (b. 1875) October 18 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born American beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878) October 23 – Claire McDowell, American silent screen actress (b. 1877) October 24 – Hans Dreier, German art director (b. 1885) October 26 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932) October 28 – Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1916) November November 2 Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) Mississippi John Hurt, African American singer and guitarist (b. 1893) November 5 – Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (b. 1894) November 8 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. 1891) November 13 – Esna Boyd, Australian tennis player (b. 1899) November 14 Steingrímur Steinþórsson, 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1893) Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) November 21 – Władysław Bortnowski,