cancer activist (b. 1958) July July 1 Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born American architect (b. 1902) George Voskovec, Czech-American actor, writer, dramatist and director (b. 1905) July 3 – Ross Martin, American actor (b. 1920) July 7 – Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, South Yemenite socialist leader, 1st President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) (b. 1920) July 8 – Joe McDonnell, Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1951) July 10 – Giorgio De Lullo, Italian actor and director (b. 1921) July 16 – Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942) July 27 – William Wyler, American movie director (b. 1902) July 28 – Stanley Francis Rother, American priest, martyr, and Blessed (b. 1935) July 29 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888) July 31 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian leader (b. 1929) August August 1 Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter (b. 1923) Álvaro de Laiglesia, Spanish writer (b. 1922) August 2 Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete (b. 1919) Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900) August 4 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901) August 14 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894) August 15 Carlo Buscaglia, Italian football player (b. 1909) Karl Gero, Duke of Urach, Lichtenstein noble (b. 1899) August 18 Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (b. 1894) Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1888) August 19 – Jessie Matthews, English dancer, singer and actress (b. 1907) August 22 – Glauber Rocha, Brazilian filmmaker (b. 1939) August 26 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American social activist (b. 1884) August 27 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948) August 28 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian-born Association footballer and coach (b. 1899) August 29 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892) August 30 Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 47th Prime Minister of Iran and 2nd President of Iran (assassinated) (b. 1933) Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian theologian and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Iran (assassinated) (b. 1933) Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921) September September 1 Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1902) Albert Speer, German Nazi architect and war minister (b. 1905) September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897) September 7 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (b. 1932) September 8 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901) September 9 Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901) Ricardo Balbín, Argentine politician, leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) (b. 1904)