1904) August 12 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941) Manfred Winkelhock, German racing driver (b. 1951) August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899) August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904) August 20 – Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1904) August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888) August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895) August 25 Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917) Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972) August 28 Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896) Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer (b. 1908) August 29 Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918) Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908) Paul Kligman, Canadian actor (b. 1923) August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900) August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) September September 1 Stefan Bellof, German racing driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957). Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and founder of the Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893) September 4 Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891) George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899) September 6 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917) September 7 Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914) José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911) George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887) September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897) September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) September 10 Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893) Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922) September 11 William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905) Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer (b. 1905) Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957) September 13 – Augusto Rademaker, Brazilian admiral and former military junta member (b. 1905) September 14 Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925) John Holt, American writer and educator (b. 1923) September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925) September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923) September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912) September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902) September