Deaths
- January 14 – Kurt Gödel (b. 1906), American mathematician.
- March 9 – Gaston Julia (b. 1893), French mathematician.
- March 23 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer (b. 1893) Jewish biochemist.
- March 30 – Bill Hamilton (b. 1899), New Zealand mechanical engineer.
- March 31 – Charles Best (b. 1899), Canadian medical scientist.
- July 22 – André Chapelon (b. 1892), French steam locomotive designer.
- September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898), German aircraft engineer.
- November 15 – Margaret Mead (b. 1901), American cultural anthropologist.
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