Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941) March 17 – René Clément, French film director (b. 1913) March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911) March 19 Virginia Henderson, American nurse and theorist (b. 1897) Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933) March 22 – Robert F. Overmyer, American astronaut (b. 1936) March 25 – Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (b. 1932) March 26 Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914) David Packard, American engineer (b. 1912) March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958) April April 3 – Ron Brown, American politician (b. 1941) April 4 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918) April 6 – Greer Garson, British-American actress (b. 1904) April 8 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918) April 13 – James Burke, Irish-American gangster (b. 1931) April 16 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917) April 18 – Bernard Edwards, American bass player (b. 1952) April 20 – Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b. 1920) April 21 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen politician and President of Ichkeria (b. 1944) April 23 – P. L. Travers, British actress, journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1899) April 25 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b. 1920) April 26 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918) April 28 – Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923) May May 1 – David M. Kennedy, American politician, businessman (b. 1905) May 2 – Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer and politician (b. 1922) May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924) May 6 – Leo Joseph Suenens, Belgian cardinal (b. 1904) May 11 Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904) Scott Fischer, American mountaineer (b. 1955) Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961) Andrew Harris, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1964) Doug Hansen, American mountaineer (b. 1949) Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949) Tsewang Samanla, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1957) Tsewang Paljor, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1968) Dorje Morup, Indo-Tibetan Border police officer and mountaineer (b. 1948) Ademir de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922) May 17 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1935) May 19 – John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917) May 20 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919) May 23 – Sim Iness, American Olympic athlete (b. 1930) May 24 John Abbott,