player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1872) August 17 – Charles W. Ryder, American general (b. 1892) August 18 – Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, Italian mathematician (b. 1892) August 22 Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898) Johannes Sikkar, Estonian politician (b. 1897) August 23 Jersey Flegg, English-Australian rugby league player and chairman (b. 1878) Oscar Hammerstein II, American librettist (b. 1895) August 27 – Stanley Clifford Weyman, American impostor (b. 1890) August 28 – Sir Charles Forbes, British admiral (b. 1880) August 29 Hazza' al-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917) Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (b. 1888) David Diop, French West African poet (b. 1927) September September 1 – Hisamuddin of Selangor, King of Malaysia (b. 1898) September 4 – Alfred E. Green, American film director (b. 1889) September 8 Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1912) Oscar Pettiford, American jazz string player (b. 1922) September 9 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) September 11 – Edwin Justus Mayer, American screenwriter (b. 1896) September 13 – Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer (b. 1885) September 20 Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1883) Ernest William Goodpasture, American pathologist and physician (b. 1886) September 22 – Melanie Klein, Austrian-British psychoanalyst (b. 1882) September 23 – Kathlyn Williams, American stage and silent film actress (b. 1879) September 24 – Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (b. 1905) September 25 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873) September 27 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882) September 30 – St John Philby, Ceylonese-born British Arabist (b. 1885) October October 5 – Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (b. 1876) October 11 – Richard Cromwell, American film actor (b. 1910) October 12 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (assassinated) (b. 1898) October 14 – Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (b. 1903) October 15 Henny Porten, German actress and producer (b. 1890) Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890) October 19 – Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (b. 1891) October 21 Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, Scottish aristocrat and politician (b. 1874) Ma Hongbin, Chinese warlord (b. 1884) October 24 Mitrofan Nedelin, Soviet Chief Marshal of the Artillery, chief of the Strategic Missile Force, Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1902) Yevgeny Ostashev, Soviet head of the 1st control polygon NIIP-5 (Baikonur), Lenin prize winner (b. 1924) October 25 – Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer and inventor (b. 1884) October 31 – H. L.