politician, three-time Prime Minister of Greece (born 1894) February 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (born 1888) February 10 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (born 1905) February 12 – Gerald Gardner, English polymath, founder of Wiccan religion (born 1884) February 13 – Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer (born 1896) February 15 Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, French theologian (born 1877) Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (born 1880) February 18 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile and founder of Bombardier Inc. (born 1907) February 25 Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor (born 1887) Johnny Burke, American lyricist (born 1908) Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Filipino politician and writer (born 1888) Grace Metalious, American writer (born 1924) February 27 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-born costume designer (born 1897) March March 6 Paul of Greece, King of Greece (born 1901) Edward Van Sloan, American actor (born 1882) March 9 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (born 1870) March 12 – Abbās al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist (born 1889) March 18 Sigfrid Edström, Swedish industrialist, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1870) Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (born 1894) March 19 – Leo Maximilian Baginski, German entrepreneur (born 1891) March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer (born 1923) March 23 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (born 1904) March 25 – Alfredo Bigatti, Argentine sculptor (born 1898) March 30 – Birinchi Kumar Barua, Indian folklorist (born 1890) April April 1 – Božidar Kunc, Yugoslav composer (born 1903) April 3 – Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (born 1891) April 4 – Georgia Caine, American actress (born 1876) April 5 – Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan after World War II (born 1880) April 6 – Jigme Palden Dorji, 1st Prime Minister of Bhutan (born 1919; assassinated) April 7 – Bruce W. Klunder, American Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist (born 1937) April 13 – Veit Harlan, German film director (born 1899) April 14 Tatyana Afanasyeva, Soviet mathematician and physicist (born 1876) Rachel Carson, American biologist and environmental writer (born 1907) April 18 Fumio Asakura, Japanese sculptor (born 1883) Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (born 1894) April 20 Dimitar Ganev, Bulgarian communist politician, head of the State (born 1890) August Sander, German photographer (born 1876) April 24 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (born 1895) April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (born 1882)