the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1900) May 22 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900) May 23 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902) May 24 – Jim Barnes, English golf champion (b. 1886) May 25 – Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (b. 1890) May 29 – James Woolf, British film producer (b. 1919) June June 1 – Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873) June 3 – Nicholas Straussler, Hungarian engineer (b. 1891) June 6 – Ethel Clayton, American actress (b. 1882) June 7 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1886) June 8 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890) June 11 – Wallace Ford, English-born American actor (b. 1898) June 12 William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (b. 1873) Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891) June 15 – Robert G. Fowler, American pioneer aviator (b. 1884) June 19 – Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (b. 1886) June 20 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894) June 30 Margery Allingham, British detective fiction writer (b. 1904) Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906) July July 2 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900) John the Wonderworker, Chinese Orthodox bishop, American archbishop and saint (b. 1896) July 3 – Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885) July 5 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) July 7 – Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901) July 9 – Venerable Marija Petković, Yugoslav Roman Catholic foundress and Servant of God (b. 1892) July 11 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913) July 12 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese scholar and essayist (b. 1870) July 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878) July 18 – Bobby Fuller, American rock and roll musician (b. 1942) July 21 Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1875) Philipp Frank, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1884) July 23 Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920) Douglass Montgomery, American actor (b. 1907) July 25 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926) July 29 – Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian head of state (b. 1924) July 31 Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general and military advisor, 20 July Plotter (b. 1878) Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924) August August 1 – Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (b. 1941) August 3 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913) August 12 – Artur Alliksaar, Estonian