pianist (b. 1886) January 24 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884) January 26 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900) January 29 – Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899) January 30 – Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (b. 1893) February February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress (b. 1905) February 3 – Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893) February 4 Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896) Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876) February 6 – Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876) February 7 – William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879) February 9 – Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894) February 12 – Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885) February 13 – Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897) February 15 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944) February 16 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) February 17 Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892) Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894) February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882) February 22 George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885) Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889) February 26 Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (b. 1896) King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909) February 28 – Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890) March March 3 Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1903) Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887) March 6 George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (b. 1904) Oswald Rayner, British MI6 agent (b. 1888) March 8 Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879) Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879) March 12 Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete (b. 1887) Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935) March 17 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860) March 22 – Nikolai Massalitinov, Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880) March 23 – Valentin Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) March 25 – Arthur Drewry, English administrator, 5th President of FIFA (b. 1891) March 26 – Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888) April April 2 – Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885) April 3 – Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927) April 6