April April 8 – Lon L. Fuller, American legal philosopher (b. 1902) April 9 – Vivian McGrath, Australian tennis player (b. 1916) April 13 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1900) April 16 Lucius D. Clay, American military governor of Germany after World War II (b. 1897) Philibert Tsiranana, Malagasy leader and politician, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912) April 18 – Katherine Schmidt, American artist (b. 1899) April 21 – Sandy Denny, British singer-songwriter (b. 1947) April 27 Ralston Crawford, American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer (b. 1906) John Doeg, American tennis player (b. 1908) May May 1 – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903) May 6 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902) May 8 – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885) May 9 – Aldo Moro, Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1916) May 13 – Alby Roberts, New Zealander cricketer (b. 1909) May 15 – Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) May 16 – William Steinberg, German-American conductor (b. 1899) May 17 – Armin T. Wegner, German human rights activist (b. 1886) May 18 – Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, English politician (b. 1904) May 22 Joseph Colombo, American gangster (b. 1923) Aubrey Fitch, American admiral (b. 1883) May 26 – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (b. 1885) May 27 – Jorge Icyaza, Ecuadorean novelist (b. 1906) May 31 József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) José Gonzalvo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920) June June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer, player and president of Real Madrid C.F. (b. 1906) June 4 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (b. 1919) June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) June 12 – Guo Moruo, Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1892) June 17 – Robert B. Williams, American actor (b. 1904) June 20 – Mark Robson, Canadian film director (b. 1913) June 24 – Ahmad al-Ghashmi, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1935) June 27 – Josette Day, French actress (b. 1914) June 28 – Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) June 29 – Bob Crane, American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. 1928) July July 1 – Kurt Student, Luftwaffe general and commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b.