1897) Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888) May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885) May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889) May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915) June June 3 – Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, British air force officer, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890) June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878) June 6 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (b. 1930) June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893) June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900) June 11 – Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist (b. 1887) June 13 Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895) Sir Edward Ellington, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1877) June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897) June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891) June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899) June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942) June 29 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906) Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933) July July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888) July 8 Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan's "Mother of the Nation" (b. 1893) Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913) July 9 – Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics (b. 1874) July 13 – Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American gangster (b. 1899) July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880) July 17 Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892) John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926) July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th President of Brazil (plane crash) (b. 1897) July 19 – John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to Robert McNamara (plane crash) (b. 1921) July 20 – Lewis H. Brereton, American aviation pioneer and air force general (b. 1890) July 21 Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907) Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1898) Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892) July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878) August August 1 Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) Adrien Arcand, Canadian politician (b. 1899) August 2 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (b. 1886) August 9 Joe Orton,