March 25 Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902) Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913) Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901) March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915) March 28 Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Czechoslovak illustrator (b. 1894) Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918) March 29 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905) March 30 – Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1888) March 31 Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905) Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913) April April 6 – Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906) April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919) April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935) April 12 Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895) William Tolbert, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913) April 13 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913) April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) April 20 – Helmut Käutner, German director (b. 1908) April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928) April 22 Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907) Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902) April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904) April 26 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893) April 27 – Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914) April 29 – Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899) April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected Governor of Puerto Rico (1949 to 1965) (b. 1898) May May 2 George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904) May 4 Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909) Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897) May 9 Prince Himalaya of Nepal (b. 1921) Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1928) May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910) May 14 Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887) Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912) Fatmawati, inaugural First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923) May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922) May 18 David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens) Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956) Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for