Deaths
- May 14 - Walter Pitts (born 1923), American logician and cognitive psychologist.
- June 24 - Willy Ley (born 1906), German American scientific populariser.
- August 8 - Otmar von Verschuer (born 1896), German eugenicist.
- August 17 - Otto Stern (born 1888), German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943.
- September 16 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. (born 1887), American conservationist.
- September 24 - Warren Sturgis McCulloch (born 1898), American neurophysiologist and cybernetician.
- October 21 - Wacław Sierpiński (born 1882), Polish mathematician.
- November 12 - William F. Friedman (born 1891), Russian American cryptanalyst.
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