1938) January 3 – Erwin Canham, journalist (b. 1904) January 5 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917) January 7 – Kay Hammond, American actress (b. 1901) January 8 Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912) Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908) January 11 A. W. Haydon, American inventor (b. 1906) Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer (b. 1903) Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (b. 1926) January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912) January 18 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b. 1905) January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945) January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 27th President of Chile (b. 1911) January 24 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian military officer, 48th President of Bolivia (b. 1918) January 25 – Mikhail Suslov, senior Soviet Communist Party official (b. 1902) January 27 – Trần Văn Hương, 3rd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1902) January 30 Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890) Lightnin' Hopkins, American blues musician (b. 1912) Helen Lynd, American sociologist and philosopher (b. 1896) February February 3, Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet and journalist (b. 1914) February 4 Sue Carol, American actress (b. 1906) Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935) February 5 – Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide) (b. 1953) February 6 Ioan Beldiceanu, Romanian general (b. 1892) Ben Nicholson, English painter (b. 1894) February 11 Eleanor Powell, American dancer and actress (b. 1912) Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905) February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902) February 17 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917) Lee Strasberg, Polish-American actor and acting coach, co-founder of method acting (b. 1901) February 18 – Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime fiction writer (b. 1895) February 19 – Dame Margery Perham, English Africanist (b. 1895) February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897) February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910) March March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928) March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. (b. 1936) March 5 – John Belushi, American comedian, actor and singer (b. 1949) March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (b. 1905) March 8 Rab Butler, British statesman (b. 1902) Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872) March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne (b. 1956) March 21 – Harry