and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b. 1880) June 2 – R. Norris Williams, American tennis player (b. 1891) June 4 Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898) Sir Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1882) June 6 Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) Robert F. Kennedy, American lawyer and politician (United States Senator, U.S. Attorney General) (b. 1925) June 7 – Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907) June 14 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (b. 1916) Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) June 15 Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880) Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923) June 17 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901) June 18 – Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general and war criminal (b. 1885) June 25 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924) July July 1 Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903) Virginia Weidler, American actress (b. 1927) July 2 Zaki al-Arsuzi, Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, and historian (b. 1899) Francis Brennan, American cardinal (b. 1894) July 9 Viktor Blinov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1945) Alexander Cadogan, British diplomat (b. 1884) July 12 – José Bordas Valdez, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1874) July 14 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian-Soviet writer (b. 1892) July 15 – Cai Chusheng, Chinese film director (b. 1906) July 18 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) July 20 – Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (b. 1908) July 21 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (b. 1879) July 22 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908) July 23 Luigi Cevenini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1895) Sir Henry Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist (b. 1875) July 27 – Lilian Harvey, Anglo-German actress and singer (b. 1906) July 28 Otto Hahn, German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) Ángel Herrera Oria, Spanish journalist, politician, cardinal and servant of God (b. 1886) August August 3 – Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soviet officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896) August 5 – Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928) August 19 – George Gamow, Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904) August 25 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910) August 26 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905) August 27 Robert Z. Leonard, American film director (b. 1889) Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906) August 29 – Ulysses S.