(b. 1900) Max Woosnam, English sportsman (b. 1892) July 19 Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer (b. 1903) Ingrid Jonker, South African Afrikaans poet (b. 1933) Syngman Rhee, Korean statesman, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875) July 24 – Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904) July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894) July 30 Pier Ruggero Piccio, Italian World War I fighter ace, air force general (b. 1880) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886) August August 1 – John Miller, American Olympic rower - Men's eights (b. 1903) August 6 Nancy Carroll, American actress (b. 1903) Everett Sloane, American actor (b. 1909) August 8 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916) August 9 – Creighton Hale, American actor (b. 1882) August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 38th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899) August 25 – Johnny Hayes, American Olympic athlete (b. 1886) August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887) August 28 Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Iraqi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1892) Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909) August 29 – Paul Waner, American baseball player (b. 1903) September September 4 Tommy Hampson, British Olympic athlete (b. 1907) Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875) September 8 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922) Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) September 12 – Lucian Truscott, American general (b. 1895) September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886) September 17 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903) September 22 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born American engineer (b. 1879) September 27 – Clara Bow, American silent film actress (b. 1905) October October 1 – Anton Boisen, American founder of the clinical pastoral education movement (b. 1876) October 3 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914) October 6 – Edward Evans, English murder victim (b. 1948) October 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian author and journalist (b. 1885) October 11 Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895) Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884) October 12 – Samir Al-Rifai, 6-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1901) October 13 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) October 14 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (b. 1914) October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1891)