– Brent Barry, American basketball player Deaths January January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (b. 1899) January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883) January 11 – Hussein Al Oweini, 18th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1900) January 12 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, British admiral (b. 1885) January 14 – Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900) January 15 – John Dall, American actor (b. 1920) January 17 – Lothar Rendulic, Austrian-born German general (b. 1887) January 20 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880) January 24 – Bill W., co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895) January 25 – Hermann Hoth, German general (b. 1885) January 27 – Jacobo Árbenz, 19th President of Guatemala (b. 1913) January 28 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896) January 31 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891) February February 1 – Raoul Hausmann, Austrian artist (b. 1886) February 3 – Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. 1899) February 4 – Brock Chisholm, Canadian physician, 1st Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1896) February 5 – Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1892) February 6 – Shigeru Fukudome, Japanese admiral (b. 1891) February 12 – James Cash Penney, American businessman, founder of J. C. Penney (b. 1875) February 17 – Adolf A. Berle, American lawyer, educator, author and diplomat (b. 1895) February 18 – Jaime de Barros Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894) February 19 – Ibrahim Mohammad Jahfar, Bruneian politician (b. 1902) February 25 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) March March 3 – António Silva, Portuguese actor (b. 1886) March 7 – Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (b. 1902) March 8 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1893) March 9 Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (b. 1893) Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902) March 11 Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906) C. D. Broad, English philosopher (b. 1887) March 12 – David Burns, American actor (b. 1902) March 16 Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901) Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York; American presidential candidate (b. 1902) March 22 – Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886) March 23 – Basil Dearden, English film director (b. 1911) March 24 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (b. 1902) April