cryptozoologist and writer (b. 1911) Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892) February 22 Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899) Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900) February 23 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) February 28 – Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (b. 1890) March March 3 – Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905) March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) March 8 – Benjamín de Arriba y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1886) March 10 – Robert Siodmak, German-born American director (b. 1900) March 13 – Melville Cooper, British actor (b. 1896) March 17 – Giuseppe Ferretto, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899) March 18 Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (b. 1880) Lauritz Melchior, Danish opera singer (b. 1890) March 22 – Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (b. 1893) March 25 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-born American photographer (b. 1879) March 26 – Sir Noël Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899) April April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881) April 12 – Arthur Freed, American film producer (b. 1894) April 13 – Dudley Senanayake, 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1911) April 14 – Károly Kerényi, Hungarian philologist and mythologist (b. 1897) April 16 Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944) Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929) April 19 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881) April 21 Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, director, and producer (b. 1893) Sir Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) April 25 Fuad Chehab, 8th President of Lebanon (b. 1902) Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (b. 1885) April 26 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902) April 28 – Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (b. 1882) May May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914) May 6 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (b. 1933) May 8 – Alexander Vandegrift, American general (b. 1887) May 11 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) May 12 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter (b. 1888). May 16 – Jacques Lipchitz, French-American sculptor (b. 1891) May 18 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician (b. 1880) May 20 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945) May 21 Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897) Vaughn Monroe, American singer (b. 1911) May 26 Karl Löwith, German philosopher (b. 1897) May 27 – Constantin