Editing 1945 (section)

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno]]]]
[[File:Else Lasker-Schüler 1875.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Else Lasker-Schüler]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Bertram Ramsay|Sir Bertram Ramsay]], British admiral (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Edgar Cayce]], American mystic (b. [[1877]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno]], 3-time [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Josefa Llanes Escoda]], Filipino women's [[suffrage]] advocate, founder of the [[Girl Scouts of the Philippines]] (b. [[1898]])
** [[Edith Frank]], German-Dutch mother of [[Anne Frank]] (b. [[1900]])<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706062831/http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-07-06|title=Edith Frank|date=2010-07-06|access-date=2017-10-18}}</ref>
** [[Herbert Lumsden]], British general (killed in action) (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://generals.dk/general/Lumsden/Herbert/Great_Britain.html  Lumsden, Herbert]</ref>
** [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], Soviet mineralogist, geochemist (b. [[1863]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Alexander Stirling Calder]], American sculptor (b. [[1870]])
** [[Thomas McGuire]], American World War II fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1920]])
** [[Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (killed in action) (b. [[1900]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Jüri Uluots]],  8th [[Prime Minister of Estonia]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Pēteris Juraševskis]], 8th [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Teresio Olivelli]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] soldier and venerable (b. [[1916]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Pedro Abad Santos]], Filipino politician, brother of [[José Abad Santos]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[January 16]] – [[José Fabella]], Filipino physician (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 19]]
** [[Petar Bojović]], Serbian field marshal (b. [[1858]])
** [[Gustave Mesny]], French Army general (b. [[1886]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Federico Pedrocchi]], Italian artist, writer (killed on active service) (b. [[1907]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Archibald Murray|Sir Archibald Murray]], British Army general (b. [[1860]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Else Lasker-Schüler]], German poet, author (b. [[1869]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Eugen Bolz]], German politician, [[20 July Plot]]ter (executed) (b. [[1881]])
** [[Nikolaus Gross]], German [[Roman Catholic]] layman, martyr and blessed (b. [[1898]])
** [[Newton E. Mason]], United States Navy rear admiral (b. [[1850]])
* [[January 30]]
** Sir [[William Goodenough]], British admiral (b. [[1867]])
** [[Pedro Paulet]], Peruvian scientist (b. [[1874]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Eddie Slovik]], American soldier (executed for desertion) (b. [[1920]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kimmelman |first=Benedict B. |date=September–October 1987 |title=The Example Of Private Slovik |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/node/55767 |journal=[[American Heritage Magazine]] |volume=38 |issue=6 |access-date=October 5, 2012}}</ref>

===February===
[[File:Anne Frank passport photo, May 1942.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Anne Frank]]]]
[[File:Jose Maria Moncada 1910.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[José María Moncada]]]]
[[File:ANTolstoy.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]]]]
* February (or March) – [[Anne Frank]], German-born Jewish diarist, writer (typhus in [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]]) (b. [[1929]])<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_17318/cf_21/def_AFS_one_day_2015.PDF |title=One day they simply weren't there any more... |work=anne frank house |date=March 2015 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref>
* [[February 1]]
** [[Ivan Bagryanov]], 30th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (executed) (b. [[1891]])
** [[Dobri Bozhilov]], 29th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (executed) (b. [[1884]])
** [[Bogdan Filov]], Bulgarian archaeologist, historian and politician, 28th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (executed) (b. [[1883]])
** [[Petar Gabrovski]], acting [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (executed) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Johan Huizinga]], Dutch cultural historian (b. [[1872]])
** [[Prince Kiril of Bulgaria]] (executed) (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Adolf Brand]], German campaigner for homosexuality (air raid victim) (b. [[1874]])
** [[Alfred Delp]], German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance, [[20 July plot]]ter (executed) (b. [[1907]])
** [[Carl Friedrich Goerdeler]], German politician, civil servant, executive and economist, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. [[1884]])
** [[Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg]], German general, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Joe Hunt]], American tennis champion (military aircraft crash) (b. [[1919]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Roland Freisler]], [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] German judge (air raid victim) (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 5]]
** [[Denise Bloch]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1916]])
** [[Lilian Rolfe]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1914]])
** [[Violette Szabo]], French/British World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1921]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Robert Brasillach]], French writer (executed) (b. [[1909]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kaplan|first=Alice|title=The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach|date=2000|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-42414-9|author-link=Alice Kaplan|page=210}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Robert Mallet-Stevens]], French architect, designer (b. [[1886]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Al Dubin]], Swiss-born American songwriter (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Maria Orosa]], Filipino technologist, chemist, humanitarian and WWII heroine (air raid victim) (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ivan Chernyakhovsky]], Soviet general (died of wounds) (b. [[1906]])
* [[February 19]] – [[John Basilone]], American war hero (killed in action) (b. [[1916]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Eric Liddell]], British Olympic athlete (in internment camp) (b. [[1902]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Sara Josephine Baker]], American physician (b. [[1873]])
* [[February 23]]
** [[José María Moncada]], 19th [[President of Nicaragua]] (b. [[1870]])
** [[Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy]], Russian writer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksey-Nikolayevich-Graf-Tolstoy|title=Aleksey Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy &#124; Soviet writer &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=January 6, 2024 }}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Josef Mayr-Nusser]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] layman, martyr and blessed (b. [[1910]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Mário de Andrade]], Brazilian writer, photographer (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Millard Harmon]], American general (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108084/lieutenant-general-millard-f-harmon/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108084/lieutenant-general-millard-f-harmon/|title=LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILLARD F. HARMON|website=Air Force}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

===March===
[[File:David Lloyd George.jpg|upright=0.45|thumb|[[David Lloyd George]]]]
[[File:Hans Fischer (Nobel).jpg|upright=0.45|thumb|[[Hans Fischer]]]]
* [[March 2]] – [[Emily Carr]], Canadian painter (b. [[1871]])
* [[March 3]]
** [[Gheorghe Avramescu]], Romanian general (in custody) (b. [[1884]])
** [[Aleksandra Samusenko]], Soviet WWII tank commander (died of wounds) (b. [[1922]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[Harry Chauvel]], Australian Army general (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Hill|first =Alec|year=1979|id=A070634b|title='Chauvel, Sir Henry George (Harry) (1865–1945)'|access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref>
** [[Lucille La Verne]], American actress (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/107039613 | title=Preview unavailable | website=[[ProQuest]] | id={{ProQuest|107039613}} }}</ref>
** [[Mark Sandrich]], American film director (b. [[1900]])
* [[March 5]] – [[George Alan Vasey]], Australian general (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. [[1895]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Friedrich Fromm]], German Nazi official (executed) (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Antônio Francisco Braga]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1868]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Sava Caracaș]], Romanian general (b. [[1890]])
* [[March 18]] – [[William Grover-Williams]], British/French racing driver, war hero (executed) (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Casualty Details {{!}} CWGC|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2146381/WILLIAM%20CHARLES%20FREDERICK%20GROVER-WILLIAMS/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=www.cwgc.org|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Marcel Callo]], French [[Roman Catholic]] layman, martyr and blessed (in concentration camp) (b. [[1921]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], English poet (b. [[1870]])
* [[March 22]]
** [[Enrico Caviglia]], Italian marshal (b. [[1862]])
** [[Heinrich Maier]], Austrian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1908]])
** [[Takeichi Nishi]], Japanese equestrian gold medalist (1932), tank commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (killed in action) (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Élisabeth de Rothschild]], French WWII heroine (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 26]]
** [[David Lloyd George]], British politician and statesman, 51st [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1863]])
** [[Tadamichi Kuribayashi]], Imperial Japanese Army general, commander of the battle of Iwo Jima (probably killed in action) (b. [[1891]])
** [[Boris Shaposhnikov]], Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. [[1882]])
** [[Ichimaru Toshinosuke]], Japanese naval aviator, commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (b. [[1891]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil]], Turkish author (b. [[1867]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Ferenc Csik]], Hungarian swimmer (air raid victim) (b. [[1913]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Maurice Rose]], American general (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=3022 MG Maurice Rose]</ref>
* [[March 31]]
** [[Hans Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (suicide) (b. [[1881]])
** [[Torgny Segerstedt]], Swedish newspaper editor, publicist (b. [[1876]])
** [[Maria Skobtsova]], Soviet [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] nun and saint (killed by poison) (b. [[1891]])
** [[Natalia Tulasiewicz]], Polish teacher and [[Roman Catholic]] blessed (murdered in concentration camp) (b. [[1906]])

===April===
[[File:FDR 1944 Color Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]]]
[[File:Mussolini biografia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Benito Mussolini]]]]
[[File:Hitler portrait crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolf Hitler]]]]
* [[April 3]] – [[Raoul Dutheil]], French footballer (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Seiichi Itō]], Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Aruga Kōsaku]], Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. [[1897]])
* [[April 9]]
** [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], German theologian (executed) (b. [[1906]])
** [[Wilhelm Canaris]], German admiral, head of the [[Abwehr]] (executed) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Hans von Dohnanyi]], Hungarian-born German lawyer, member of the German Resistance, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. [[1902]])
** [[Georg Elser]], German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (executed) (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Georg Elser |url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/georg-elser/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |website=www.gdw-berlin.de}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] 
** [[Gloria Dickson]], American actress (fire victim) (b. [[1917]])
** [[Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman]], Dutch artist and printer (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/83672|title=Ontdek amateurschilder, drukker, fotograaf Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman|website=rkd.nl}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard]], British colonial administrator (b. [[1858]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], American political leader and statesman, 32nd [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Ernst Cassirer]], German philosopher (b. [[1874]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Joachim Albrecht Eggeling]], German SS general (suicide) (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 18]]
** [[John Ambrose Fleming|Sir Ambrose Fleming]], British electrical engineer and physicist (b. [[1849]])
** [[Ernie Pyle]], American journalist (killed in action) (b. [[1900]])
** [[William, Prince of Albania]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Walter Model]], German field marshal (suicide) (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Käthe Kollwitz]], German artist (b. [[1867]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Klaus Bonhoeffer]], German resistance fighter, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. [[1901]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Ernst-Robert Grawitz]], German SS Reichsphysician (suicide) (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 28]]
** Executed:
*** [[Hermann Fegelein]], German SS general (b. [[1906]])
*** [[Benito Mussolini]], Italian politician, journalist, 27th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] and [[Duce|Duce of Fascism]] (b. [[1883]])
*** [[Clara Petacci]], mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. [[1912]])
*** [[Nicola Bombacci]], Italian Fascist politician (b. [[1879]])
*** [[Roberto Farinacci]], Italian Fascist politician (b. [[1892]])
*** [[Alessandro Pavolini]], Italian Fascist politician (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Achille Starace]], Italian Fascist politician (executed) (b. [[1889]]) 
* [[April 30]]
** [[Luisa Ferida]], Italian actress (executed) (b. [[1914]])
** [[Adolf Hitler]], Austrian-born German politician, [[Führer|Führer of Germany]] (suicide) (b. [[1889]])
** [[Eva Braun]], wife of Adolf Hitler (suicide) (b. [[1912]])

===May===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Joseph Goebbels]]]]
[[File:Prince Waldemar Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich of, Germany.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945)|Prince Waldemar of Prussia]]]]
[[File:Prince Kanin Kotohito with handlebar moustaches (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Prince Kan'in Kotohito]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Joseph Goebbels]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] for 1 day and [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|Reich Minister of Propaganda]] (suicide) (b. [[1897]])
** [[Magda Goebbels]], wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 2]]
** [[Martin Bormann]], Nazi Party leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler (presumed suicide) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Wilhelm Burgdorf]], German general (suicide) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general)|Hans Krebs]], German general (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945)|Prince Waldemar of Prussia]] (haemophilia) (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Mario Blasich]], Italian physician, politician (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Fedor von Bock]], German field marshal (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite book  |last=Evans  |first=Richard J.  |title=The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945  |year=2008  |publisher=Allen Lane  |location=London  |isbn=978-0-7139-9742-2|page=750}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Xhem Hasa]], Albanian nationalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Vladimir Boyarsky]], Soviet army officer (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Francis Bruguière]], American photographer (b. [[1875]])
** [[Julius Hirsch]], German footballer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The imperishable story of Julius Hirsch: the great goalscorer murdered at Auschwitz who adorns Stamford Bridge mural|first=Sam|last=Wallace|date=January 25, 2020|newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Wilhelm Rediess]], [[SS and Police Leader]] of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Bernhard Rust]], education minister of [[Nazi Germany]] (presumed suicide) (b. [[1883]])
** [[Josef Terboven]], ''[[Reichskommissar]]'' of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Gustav Becking]], German musicologist (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Konrad Henlein]], Sudeten German Nazi leader (suicide) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Kiyoshi Ogawa]], Japanese [[kamikaze]] pilot (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[Joseph Barthélemy]], French jurist, politician and journalist (b. [[1874]])
** [[Heber J. Grant]], 7th President of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[May 15]] 
** [[Kenneth J. Alford]], British soldier and composer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alfordassociation.org/BIOS/bio_Kenneth%20J.%20Alford.htm|title=AAFA Bio - Kenneth J. Alford}}</ref>
** [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], British author (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Kaju Sugiura]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 18]] – [[William Joseph Simmons]], American founder of the second [[Ku Klux Klan]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Philipp Bouhler]], German Nazi leader and general (suicide) (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Prince Kan'in Kotohito]], Japanese prince, member of the [[Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Heinrich Himmler]], German politician, [[Reichsführer-SS]] (suicide) (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Robert Ritter von Greim]], German field marshal (suicide) (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 25]] 
** [[Rafael Estrella Ureña]], Dominican lawyer and politician, acting [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ishii Kikujirō]], Japanese diplomat and politician (killed in bombing raid) (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ishii-Kikujiro|title=Ishii Kikujiro &#124; Biography & Facts &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=March 15, 2024 }}</ref>
* [[May 31]]
** [[Odilo Globocnik]], Austrian Nazi leader (suicide)  (b. [[1904]])
** [[Curt von Gottberg]], German SS general (suicide) (b. [[1896]])

===June===
[[File:Prince Luis Fernando d'Orleans.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón]]]]
* [[June 4]] – [[Georg Kaiser]], German dramatist (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Kitaro Nishida]], Japanese philosopher (b. [[1870]])
* [[June 8]]
** [[Robert Desnos]], French poet, resistance fighter (typhoid) (b. [[1900]])
** [[Karl Hanke]], German Nazi general and last [[Reichsführer-SS]] (killed) (b. [[1903]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Lurana W. Sheldon]], American author and editor (b. [[1862]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Minoru Ōta]], Japanese admiral (suicide) (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 15]]
** [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]], Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1872]])
** [[Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy]], American author (b. [[1863]])
** [[Aris Velouchiotis]], Greek World War II resistance leader (b. [[1905]])
* [[June 16]]
** [[Nikolai Berzarin]], Soviet Red Army general (b. [[1904]])
** [[Nils Edén]], 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1871]])
* [[June 18]]
** [[Florence Bascom]], American geologist and educator (b. [[1862]])
** [[Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.]], American general (killed in action at [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]) (b. [[1886]])
** [[Friedrich, Prince of Wied]], German prince (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 20]]
** [[Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe]], British politician (b. [[1858]])
** [[Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón]], Spanish prince (b. [[1888]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Isamu Chō]], Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Mitsuru Ushijima]], Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 24]] – [[José Gutiérrez Solana]], Spanish painter (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Emil Hácha]], 3rd [[President of Czechoslovakia]], State President of [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 30]]
** [[Germogen (Maximov)]], Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (b. [[1861]])
** [[Gabriel El-Registan]], Soviet poet (b. [[1899]])

===July===
[[File:Óscar Benavides.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Óscar R. Benavides]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Félix Evaristo Mejía]], Dominican diplomat, educator and writer (b. [[1866]])
* [[July 2]] – [[Óscar R. Benavides]], Peruvian field marshal, diplomat, politician and [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 5]] – [[John Curtin]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Peter To Rot]], Papuan [[Roman Catholic]] layman, martyr and blessed (b. [[1912]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti]], Italian politician, diplomat (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 12]] 
** [[Boris Galerkin]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Boris+Galerkin|title=Boris Galerkin|website=TheFreeDictionary.com}}</ref>
** [[Wolfram von Richthofen]], German field marshal (brain tumor) (b. [[1895]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Alla Nazimova]], Russian-born American actress (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Ernst Busch (field marshal)|Ernst Busch]], German field marshal, as prisoner of war (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Paul Valéry]], French poet (b. [[1871]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Arnold von Winckler]], German general (b. [[1856]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Malin Craig]], United States Army general (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Maria Pierina|Maria Pierina De Micheli]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, mystic and blessed (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Artemio Ricarte]], Filipino general (b. [[1866]])

===August===
[[File:El Ingeniero Don Florencio Harmodio Arosemena.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Florencio Harmodio Arosemena]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Blas Cabrera Felipe]], Spanish physicist (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Pietro Mascagni]], Italian composer (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Roman Kochanowski]], Polish painter, illustrator (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Gerhard Gentzen]], German mathematician and logician (starvation in prison camp) (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Nat Jaffe]], American swing jazz pianist (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Le Pétomane|Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane]], French flatulist (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Jacques Vaillant de Guélis]], British/French WWII hero (injuries received in automobile accident) (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[Harry Hillman]], American track athlete (b. [[1881]])<ref>Harry Hillman Taken by Death, ''Cumberland News'', August 10, 1945</ref>
** [[Jun Tosaka]], Japanese philosopher (in prison) (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Robert H. Goddard]], American rocket scientist (b. [[1882]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Karl Leisner]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1915]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Korechika Anami]], Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Matome Ugaki]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Takijirō Ōnishi]], Japanese admiral (ritual suicide) (b. [[1891]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Leader of Indian National Army (Third-degree burns from aircrash) (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Firoz Alam|title=Subhas Chandra Bose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sG4wAQAAIAAJ|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Sahni Publications|isbn=978-81-7564-242-3|page=121}}</ref>
** [[Sarala Devi Chaudhurani]], Indian educationist (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Shizuichi Tanaka]], Japanese general (suicide) (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Willis Augustus Lee]], American admiral, Olympic shooter (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Pio Collivadino]], Argentinian painter (b. [[1869]])
** [[Franz Werfel]], Austrian writer (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 27]] – Blessed [[María Pilar Izquierdo Albero]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Fritz Pfleumer]], German engineer, inventor (b. [[1881]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Florencio Harmodio Arosemena]], 6th [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Stefan Banach]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1892]])
** [[Pope Macarius III of Alexandria]], Egyptian patriarch, saint (b. [[1872]])

===September===
[[File:Bartók Béla 1927.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Béla Bartók]]]]
* [[September 6]]
** [[Witold Leon Czartoryski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1864]])
** [[John S. McCain Sr.]], American admiral (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Aage Bertelsen]], Danish painter (b. [[1873]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Hajime Sugiyama]], Japanese general (suicide) (b. [[1880]])
* [[September 15]]
** [[Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer]], German physician and bacteriologist (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, 1858-1945|first=P.|last=Fildes|date=February 13, 1956|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=2|pages=237–247|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1956.0016|s2cid=73380545|doi-access=free}}</ref>
** [[André Tardieu]], 3-time prime minister of France (b. [[1876]])
** [[Anton Webern]], Austrian composer (b. [[1883]])
** [[Zhang Mingqi]], Qing dynasty politician (b. [[1875]])
* [[September 16]] – [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]], Irish tenor (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 18]]
** [[José Agripino Barnet]], Cuban politician and diplomat, acting [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1864]])
** [[Blind Willie Johnson]], American gospel blues singer (b. [[1897]])
* [[September 20]]
** [[Augusto Tasso Fragoso]], Brazilian soldier, statesman and Interim [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1869]])
** [[Eduard Wirths]], German doctor, chief SS doctor at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] (suicide) (b. [[1909]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Hans Geiger]], German physicist, inventor (b. [[1882]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Béla Bartók]], Hungarian composer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Stevens|2018}}|reference=Stevens, Halsey. 2018. "[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bela-Bartok#ref84023 Béla Bartók: Hungarian Composer]". ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' online (accessed 27 September 2018).}}</ref>
** [[Kiyoshi Miki]], Japanese philosopher (b. [[1897]])

===October===
[[File:Pierre Laval a Meurisse 1931.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Pierre Laval]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Walter Bradford Cannon]], American physiologist (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. W.B. Cannon, 73, Neurologist, Dead. Harvard Psychology Professor for 36 Years Noted for His Work on Traumatic Shock Became Professor in 1906 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/10/02/archives/dr-wb-cannon-73-neurologist-dead-harvard-psychology-professor-for.html |work=[[New York Times]] |date=October 2, 1945 |access-date=October 5, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Leonardo Conti]], German physician, Nazi officer (suicide) (b. [[1900]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Felix Salten]], Austrian author (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Felix-Salten|title=Felix Salten &#124; Austrian novelist &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=September 2, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Joseph Darnand]], Vichy French politician (executed) (b. [[1897]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Dmytro Antonovych]], Soviet politician (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Milton S. Hershey]], American chocolate tycoon (b. [[1857]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Pierre Laval]], French politician, 2-time [[Prime Minister of France]] (executed) (b. [[1883]])<ref name=Jessup/>
* [[October 18]] – [[Frederick Hovey]], American tennis player (b. [[1868]])
* [[October 19]]
** [[Plutarco Elías Calles]], Mexican general, politician and 40th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1877)
** [[N. C. Wyeth]], American illustrator (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 21]] 
** [[Henry Armetta]], Italian actor (b. [[1888]])
** [[Felicija Bortkevičienė]], Lithuanian politician and publisher  (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/felicija-bortkeviciene/|title=Felicija Bortkevičienė|website=www.vle.lt}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] 
** [[Franklin Carmichael]], Canadian landscape painter and graphic designer  (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://thegroupofseven.ca/franklin-carmichael/ Franklin Carmichael]</ref>
** [[Vidkun Quisling]], Norwegian Nazi collaborator (executed) (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Robert Ley]], German Nazi politician (suicide) (b. [[1890]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[Adolf von Brudermann]], Austro-Hungarian general (b. [[1854]])
** [[Paul Pelliot]], French explorer (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Xian Xinghai]], Chinese composer (b. [[1905]])
* [[October 31]]
** [[Henry Ainley]], British actor (b. [[1879]])
** [[Ignacio Zuloaga]], Basque Spanish painter (b. [[1870]])

===November===
[[File:Sigurður Eggerz.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[Sigurður Eggerz]]]]
* [[November 8]] – [[August von Mackensen]], German field marshal (b. [[1849]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Jerome Kern]], American composer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II|author=Hugh Fordin, Stephen Sondheim|year=1995|publisher=Da Capo Press|page=237|isbn=0-306-80668-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPnW73J9xBMC&pg=PA237}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[November 13]] – [[Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair|Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair]], British admiral (b. [[1865]])<ref>[Sinclair, Sir Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-, of Freswick (1865–1945)]</ref>
* [[November 16]] – [[Sigurður Eggerz]], [[Minister for Iceland]] during [[World War I]] and 2nd [[Prime Minister of Iceland]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Francis William Aston]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 21]]
** [[Robert Benchley]], American humorist, theater critic and actor (b. [[1889]])<ref>Billy Altman, ''Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley''. (New York City: [[W. W. Norton]], 1997. {{ISBN|0-393-03833-5}}) Pages 352-362</ref>
** [[Ellen Glasgow]], American novelist (b. [[1873]])<ref>Inge, Tonette Bond. ''Encyclopedia of Southern Culture'', ed.  Charles Reagan Wilson and William R. Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Page 884.</ref>
** [[Alexander Patch]], United States Army lieutenant general, World War II army commander (b. [[1889]])
** [[Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1878)|Jimmy Quinn]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.celticfc.com/|title=Jimmy Quinn|first=Celtic|last=FC|website=Celtic FC}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] – [[Charles Coborn]], British singer (b. [[1852]]) 
* [[November 27]] – [[Josep Maria Sert]], Spanish Catalan muralist (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Dwight F. Davis]], American tennis player (b. [[1879]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Shigeru Honjō]], Japanese general (suicide) (b. [[1876]])

===December===
[[File:General George S Patton.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|[[George S. Patton]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Anton Dostler]], German general (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]], American biologist, geneticist, embryologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient (b. [[1866]])
** [[Richárd Weisz]], Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_j1DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Rich%C3%A1rd+Weisz%22+jewish&pg=PA270|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame|first=Joseph|last=Siegman|date= 2020|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9781496222121}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Gabriellino D'Annunzio]], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Juana Bormann]], German [[Nazi concentration camp]] guard (executed) (b. [[1893]])
** [[Henri Dentz]], French general (b. [[1881]])
** [[Irma Grese]], German warden at [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] (executed) (b. [[1923]])
** [[Josef Kramer]], German commandant of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] (executed) (b. [[1906]])
** [[Elisabeth Volkenrath]], German supervisor at [[Nazi concentration camp]]s (executed) (b. [[1919]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Forrester Harvey]], Irish actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[Giovanni Agnelli]], Italian entrepreneur, founder of [[Fiat]] (b. [[1866]])
** [[Fumimaro Konoe]], Japanese general, politician and 23rd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Leonard F. Wing]], American general and politician (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://generals.dk/general/Wing/Leonard_Fish/USA.html Wing, Leonard Fish]</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[George S. Patton]], American general (injuries from automobile accident) (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{citation |first=Alan |last=Axelrod |author-link=Alan Axelrod |year=2006 |title=Patton: A Biography |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |location=[[London]] |isbn=978-1-4039-7139-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/patton00axel | pages=168–9}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Otto Neurath]], Austrian philosopher, political economist (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 26]] 
** [[Duy Tân]], [[Emperor of Vietnam]] (b. [[1900]])
** [[Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes]], British admiral (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Theodore Dreiser]], American novelist (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Theodore Dreiser Recalled|publisher=Clemson University Press|year=2017|isbn=9781942954446|page=311}}</ref>