(b. 1905) January 30 – Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (b. 1886) January 31 Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888) Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879) Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912) February February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894) February 15 Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887) George W. Snedecor, American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881) February 16 – Anita Bush, African American stage and silent film actress and playwright. Known as "The Little Mother of Colored Drama" February 17 – Ralph W. Gerard, American neurophysiologist and behavioural scientist (b. 1900) February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain (b. 1930) February 23 Harry Ruby, American musician, composer and writer (b. 1885) George Van Biesbroeck, American-born Belgian astronomer (b. 1880) February 24 Margaret Leech, American historian and fiction writer (b. 1893) Robert A. Stemmle, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903) March March 1 Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen, Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901) Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935) March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898) March 3 Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (b. 1930) Frank Wilcox, American character actor (b. 1907) March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903) March 5 John Samuel Bourque, French-Canadian politician, Cabinet Minister, military member, and businessman from Québec, Canada (b. 1894) Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (b. 1907) March 6 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his book The Denial of Death (b. 1924) March 7 Moriji Mochida, last person ever awarded the 10th dan rank in kendo (b. 1885) Hans Sachs, Holocaust survivor and poster collector (b. 1881) March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889) March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) March 10 – Alexander John Majeski, American architect and Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920) March 12 – Oleksii Shovkunenko, Ukrainian painter (b. 1884) March 13 – Red Wing, American actress (b. 1873) March 14 – Maulana Shams-ud-din Harifal, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944) March 15 – José Tohá, Chilean Socialist politician, minister (assassinated) (b. 1927) March 17 – Louis Kahn, Russian-born American architect (b. 1901) March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as "The Chief" on NBC/CBS's Get Smart (b. 1916) March 20