American actor (b. 1910) March 3 Joseph Fields, American playwright (b. 1895) William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887) Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917) March 5 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889) March 7 – Donald B. Beary, American admiral (b. 1888) March 8 William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politician (b. 1907) Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Egyptian painter (b. 1925) March 10 Frank O'Connor, Irish writer (b. 1903) Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) March 12 – Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, 40th President of Bolivia (b. 1890) March 20 Laurence Abrams, English professional footballer (b. 1889) Johnny Morrison, American professional baseball player (b. 1895) March 27 – Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901) March 29 – Stylianos Gonatas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876) March 30 – Erwin Piscator, German theater director (b. 1893) April April 1 – Brian O'Nolan, Irish humorist (b. 1911) April 2 – C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899) April 3 – Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893) April 6 – Julia Faye, American actress (b. 1893) April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903) April 11 - William H. Pitsenbarger, United States Air Force Medal of Honour recipient (b. 1944) April 13 Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881) Georges Duhamel, French author (b. 1884) Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi military officer and statesman, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921) April 17 – Mario Serandrei, Italian editor and screenwriter (b. 1907) April 19 – Javier Solís, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931) April 20 – Prince Frederick of Prussia (b. 1911) April 21 – Sepp Dietrich, Nazi German military leader and SS commander (b. 1892) April 23 – George Ohsawa, Japanese dietist, founder of Macrobiotics (b. 1893) April 24 – Tino Pattiera, Yugoslav-born Italian tenor (b. 1890) April 29 – Eugene O'Brien, American actor (b. 1880) May May 4 – Amédée Ozenfant, French painter (b. 1886) May 8 – Erich Pommer, German film producer (b. 1889) May 11 – Alfred Wintle, British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897) May 14 – Ludwig Meidner, German painter (b. 1884) May 15 Venceslau Brás, 9th President of Brazil, leader in World War II (b. 1868) Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, 30th President of El Salvador (assassinated) (b. 1882) Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress (b. 1932) May 20 – Carlos Arruza, Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920) May 21 – Lady Dorothy Macmillan, spouse of