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==Deaths== {{BD ToC|deaths}} ===January=== [[File:Kaj Munk.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kaj Munk]]]] [[File:Andrey Toshev.png|thumb|100px|[[Andrey Toshev]]]] [[File:Musinga.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yuhi V Musinga]]]] [[File:Portrett av Edvard Munch (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edvard Munch]]]] [[File:Mère Teresa Michel.png|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Teresa Grillo Michel]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Edwin Lutyens|Sir Edwin Lutyens]], British architect (b. [[1869]]) ** [[Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)|Charles Turner]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1862]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Franz Reichleitner]], Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (b. [[1906]]) * [[January 4]] ** [[Kaj Munk]], Danish playwright, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] [[pastor]] and martyr (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Jean Tatlock]], American psychiatrist (b. [[1914]]) * [[January 6]] – [[Ida Tarbell]], American journalist and [[muckraker]] (b. [[1857]]) * [[January 7]] – [[Lou Henry Hoover]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1874]]) * [[January 9]] – [[Antanas Smetona]], President of Lithuania (b. [[1874]]) * [[January 10]] ** [[William Emerson Ritter]], American biologist (b. [[1856]]) ** [[Andrey Toshev]], Bulgarian scientist and diplomat, 26th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1867]]) * [[January 11]] ** Italian leaders of the [[Grand Council of Fascism]] executed following the [[Verona Trial]] *** [[Emilio De Bono]], general (b. [[1866]]) *** [[Galeazzo Ciano]], aristocrat and diplomat (b. [[1903]]) *** [[Giovanni Marinelli]], politician (b. [[1879]]) ** [[Charles King (musical actor)|Charles King]], American actor (b. [[1889]]) ** [[Edgard Potier]], Belgian spy (suicide) (b. [[1903]]) * [[January 12]] ** [[Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung]], Thai [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Juliette Atkinson]], American tennis champion (b. [[1873]]) * [[January 13]] – King [[Yuhi V of Rwanda]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Mehmet Emin Yurdakul]], Turkish writer (b. [[1869]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Léon Brunschvicg]], French philosopher (b. [[1869]]) * [[January 20]] – [[James McKeen Cattell]], American psychologist (b. [[1860]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Yoshimi Nishida]], Japanese general (b. [[1892]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Edvard Munch]], Norwegian painter (b. [[1863]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Teresa Grillo Michel]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1855]]) * [[January 29]] – [[William Allen White]], American journalist (b. [[1868]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Jean Giraudoux]], French writer (b. [[1882]]) ===February=== [[File:Piet Mondriaan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Piet Mondrian]]]] [[File:Margaret Woodrow Wilson 1912.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]]]] [[File:Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Piet Mondrian]], Dutch painter (b. [[1872]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Yvette Guilbert]], French singer and actress (b. [[1867]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Robert E. Park]], American sociologist (b. [[1864]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux]], British poet, essayist and novelist (b. [[1857]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Carl Meinhof]], German linguist (b. [[1857]]) * [[February 12]] ** [[Kenneth Gandar-Dower]], English sportsman, aviator, explorer and author (b. [[1908]]) ** [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]], American singer; [[Woodrow Wilson|Presidential]] daughter (b. [[1886]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Edgar Selwyn]], American screenwriter (b. [[1875]]) * [[February 16]] ** [[Carl August Ehrensvärd (1858-1944)|Carl August Ehrensvärd]], Swedish admiral (b. [[1858]]) ** [[Henri Nathansen]], Danish writer and director (b. [[1868]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Valentin Kotyk]], [[Soviet partisans|partisan]] scout, the youngest-ever [[Hero of Soviet Union]] (killed in action) (b. [[1930]]) * [[February 18]] – [[David Griffin (athlete)|David Griffin]], Royal Canadian Air Force flying officer, Olympic athlete, and journalist (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2954007|title=Flying Officer David Francis Griffin|date=January 29, 2024|website=Canadian Virtual War Memorial|publisher=[[Veterans Affairs Canada]]|location=Ottawa, Ontario|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> * [[February 21]] – [[Ferenc Szisz]], Hungarian-born race car driver (b. [[1873]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Leo Baekeland]], Belgian-born American chemist (b. [[1863]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Fanny Clar]], French journalist and writer (b. [[1875]]) * [[February 29]] – [[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]], Finnish politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Finland|Prime Minister]] and 3rd [[President of Finland]] (b. [[1861]]) ===March=== [[File:PaulEmileJanson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul-Émile Janson]]]] [[File:Otto von Below LOC.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Otto von Below]]]] *[[March 3]] – [[Paul-Émile Janson]], Belgian politician, 30th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1872]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Louis Buchalter]], Jewish-born American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (executed) (b. [[1897]]) * [[March 5]] **[[Max Jacob]], French poet (b. [[1876]]) **[[Neel E. Kearby]], American fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1911]]) *[[March 8]] – [[Xu Zonghan]], Chinese medical doctor, politician and revolutionary (b. [[1877]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Demetrios Capetanakis]], Greek poet, essayist and critic (b. [[1912]]) * [[March 11]] ** [[Hendrik Willem van Loon]], Dutch-born American historian, journalist and writer (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Irvin S. Cobb]], American writer (b. [[1876]]) * [[March 15]] **[[Otto von Below]], German general (b. [[1857]]) **[[Mariya Oktyabrskaya]], Soviet national hero (b. [[1905]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Mario Bravo]], Argentinian politician and writer (b. [[1882]]) * [[March 19]] ** [[Giuseppe de Liguoro]], Italian actor and director (b. [[1869]]) ** [[Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau]], French general (b. [[1851]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Pierre Brossolette]], journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. [[1903]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Myron Selznick]], American film producer (b. [[1898]]) * [[March 24]] ** [[Pietro Pappagallo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1888]]) ** [[Orde Wingate]], British soldier (b. [[1903]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Omelyan Kovch]], Soviet [[Roman Catholic]] and Greek [[Orthodox priest]], martyr and blessed (b. [[1884]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Stephen Leacock]], British-born Canadian humorist, author and economist (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Leacock|title=Stephen Leacock | Canadian author | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=March 24, 2024 }}</ref> * [[March 31]] ** [[Antoni Kiewnarski]], Polish WWII hero (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Mineichi Koga]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Włodzimierz Kolanowski]], Polish army officer (b. [[1913]]) ===April=== [[File:Retrato do Dr. Bernardino Machado.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bernardino Machado]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Sharifzyan Kazanbaev]], Soviet army officer (b. [[1916]]) * [[April 2]] – [[John Batchelor (missionary)|John Batchelor]], British missionary and reverend (b. [[1855]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Yevgeniya Rudneva]], Soviet WWII heroine (b. [[1920]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Bartolomeo Gosio]], Italian scientist (b. [[1863]]) * [[April 15]] ** [[Giovanni Gentile]], Italian philosopher and Fascist politician (assassinated) (b. [[1875]]) ** [[Nikolai Vatutin]], Soviet military commander, commander of the [[1st Ukrainian Front]], [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1901]]) * [[April 17]] – [[J. T. Hearne]], English cricketer (b. [[1867]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Hans-Valentin Hube]], German army general (b. [[1890]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Charles Jordan (magician)|Charles Jordan]], American magician (b. [[1888]]) * [[April 25]] – [[George Herriman]], American cartoonist (b. [[1880]]) * [[April 28]] ** [[Mohammed Alim Khan]], [[Emir of Bukhara]] (b. [[1880]]) ** [[Frank Knox]], American Secretary of the Navy during WWII (b. [[1874]]) * [[April 29]] ** [[Billy Bitzer]], American cinematographer (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Bernardino Machado]], Portuguese political figure, 2-time [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] and 2-time [[President of Portugal]], leader of the [[World War I]] (b. [[1851]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Paul Poiret]], French couturier (b. [[1879]]) ===May=== [[File:Leon Kozłowski.PNG|100px|thumb|[[Leon Kozłowski]]]] [[File:Edel Quinn.png|100px|thumb|[[Edel Quinn]]]] [[File:Патриарх Сергий.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow]]]] [[File:Thomas Curtis.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]]]] * [[May 5]] – [[Bertha Benz]], German automotive pioneer, wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b. [[1849]]) * [[May 7]] – [[William Ledyard Rodgers]], American admiral and military and naval historian (b. [[1860]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Leon Kozłowski]], Polish archaeologist and politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (b. [[1892]]) * [[May 12]] ** [[Max Brand]], American author (b. [[1892]]) ** [[Harold Lowe]], British sailor, 5th officer of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Arthur Quiller-Couch]], British writer and academic (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Edel Quinn]], Irish [[Roman Catholic]] laywoman, missionary and venerable (b. [[1907]]) * [[May 15]] – Patriarch [[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow|Sergius I]] (b. [[1867]]) * [[May 16]] ** [[George Ade]], American author (b. [[1866]]) ** [[Filip Mișea]], Aromanian activist, physician and politician (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://opiniabuzau.ro/celebritati-medicale-buzoiene/|title=Celebrități medicale buzoiene / Doctor Mișea Filip, creatorul secției de contagioase a Spitalului Gârlași|first=Anghel C.|last=Tudor|newspaper=Opinia Buzău|date=10 April 2019|language=ro}}</ref> * [[May 17]] – [[Milena Jesenská]], Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and translator (b. [[1896]]) * [[May 20]] ** [[Fraser Barron]], New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (b. [[1921]]) ** [[Eugenio Colorni]], Italian philosopher and activist (b. [[1909]]) ** [[Vincent Rose]], American musician and band leader (b. [[1880]]) * [[May 21]] **[[Edmund Mortimer (actor)|Edmund Mortimer]], American actor and director (b. [[1874]]) **[[Li Jiayu]], Chinese general of the [[National Revolutionary Army]] (b. [[1892]]) * [[May 23]] – [[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1873]]) * [[May 24]] ** [[Inigo Campioni]], Italian admiral (executed) (b. [[1878]]) ** [[Matsuji Ijuin]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Luigi Mascherpa]], Italian admiral (executed) (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Harold Bell Wright]], American writer (b. [[1872]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Clark Daniel Stearns]], 9th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[May 30]] ** Patriarch [[Mesrob I Naroyan of Constantinople]] (b. [[1875]]) ** [[Jessie Ralph]], American actress (b. [[1864]]) ===June=== [[File:Berinkey Dénes.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dénes Berinkey]]]] * [[June 5]] – [[Józef Beck]], Polish statesman (b. [[1894]]) * [[June 6]] ** [[Joseph Campbell (poet)|Joseph Campbell]], Northern Irish poet and lyricist (b. [[1879]]) ** [[Wilhelm Falley]], German general (killed in action) (b. [[1897]]) ** [[Don Pratt]], American general (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) ** [[Ker-Xavier Roussel]], French painter (b. [[1867]]) * [[June 12]] – [[Erich Marcks]], German general (b. [[1891]]) * [[June 16]] ** [[Marc Bloch]], French historian (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Prafulla Chandra Ray|Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray]], Indian chemist (b. [[1861]]) ** [[George Stinney]], a 14-year-old African-American boy convicted of murder in his hometown of [[Alcolu, South Carolina]]. Executed by [[electric chair]]. (b. [[1929]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Harry Fielding Reid]], American geophysicist and seismologist (b. [[1859]]) * [[June 25]] ** [[Dénes Berinkey]], 21st [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1871]]) ** [[Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer)|Lucha Reyes]], Mexican singer (b. [[1906]]) ** [[María Chinchilla Recinos]], Guatemalan teacher (b. [[1909]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Milan Hodža]], Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b. [[1878]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Anton Breinl]], Australian medical practitioner and researcher (b. [[1880]]) ===July=== [[File:Carl-mayer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl Mayer]]]] [[File:LC-DIG-ggbain-37582.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Theodore Roosevelt Jr.]]]] [[File:Сестра Тарсикія Мацьків.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tarsykiya Matskiv]]]] [[File:Reza shah uniform.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Reza Shah]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Carl Mayer]], Austrian-born screenwriter (cancer) (b. [[1894]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[Andrée Borrel]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1919]]) ** [[Vera Leigh]], British World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1903]]) ** [[Chūichi Nagumo]], Japanese admiral (suicide) (b. [[1887]]) ** [[Sonya Olschanezky]], German World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1923]]) ** [[Diana Rowden]], British World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1915]]) * [[July 7]] ** [[Georges Mandel]], French politician and WWII hero (executed) (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch]], American dentist (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bakersfield.com/bakersfield-life/dr-leonie-von-meusebach-zesch-adventurous-female-dentist-made-friends-throughout-kern-county/article_75456efc-87be-11ec-af70-337ef0200736.html|title=Dr. Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch: Adventurous female dentist made friends throughout Kern County|first=CLAUDIA|last=ELLIOTT|website=The Bakersfield Californian|date=February 26, 2022 }}</ref> * [[July 8]] ** [[George B. Seitz]], American director (b. [[1888]]) ** [[Takeo Takagi]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) * [[July 9]] ** [[Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson]], Swedish pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1920]]) ** [[Kent Rogers]], American voice actor (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. [[1923]]) * [[July 12]] ** [[Jesus Baza Duenas]], Guamese [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. [[1911]]) ** [[Theodore Roosevelt Jr.]], American Brigadier General, political and business leader (heart attack) (b. [[1887]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Asmahan]], Syrian-born Egyptian singer (automobile accident) (b. [[1912]]) * [[July 15]] – [[Joseph Sadi-Lecointe]], French aviator (died from effects of torture) (b. [[1891]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Moncena Dunn (inventor)|Moncena Dunn]], American inventor (b. [[1867]]) * [[July 17]] ** [[Tarsykiya Matskiv]], Soviet [[Eastern Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (killed) (b. [[1919]]) ** [[William James Sidis]], American mathematician and linguist (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/william-sidis?utm_content=cmp-true|title=William Sidis|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> * [[July 18]] ** [[Augusto De Angelis]], Italian writer and journalist (b. [[1888]]) ** [[George Holt (actor)|George Holt]], American actor and director (b. [[1878]]) ** [[Rex Whistler]], British painter (killed in action) (b. [[1905]]) * [[July 20]] ** [[Ludwig Beck]], German general, former Chief of the German General Staff and resistance member (assisted suicide) (b. [[1880]]) ** [[Mildred Harris]], American actress (complications following surgery) (b. [[1901]]) <ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Mildred Harris Dies In West |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vGkxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7265,295518&dq=mildred+harris+dies&hl=en |quote=... actress in the silent film days, and first wife of Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin, died yesterday of pneumonia which followed a major abdominal operation....|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=July 21, 1944 |access-date=2021-11-29 }}</ref> ** [[Günther Korten]], German colonel-general, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe (died of injuries received in assassination attempt on Hitler) (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Claus von Stauffenberg]], German resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1907]]) * [[July 21]] ** [[Heinz Brandt]], German officer (b. [[1907]]) ** [[Werner von Haeften]], German resistance member (executed) (b. [[1908]]) ** [[Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim]], German resistance leader (b. [[1905]]) ** [[Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen]], German resistance member (suicide) (b. [[1915]]) ** [[Friedrich Olbricht]], German resistance leader (b. [[1888]]) ** [[Henning von Tresckow]], German general and resistance leader (suicide) (b. [[1901]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Eduard Wagner]], German general and resistance member (suicide) (b. [[1894]]) * [[July 25]] ** [[Lesley J. McNair]], American general (b. [[1883]]) ** [[Jakob von Uexküll]], Baltic German biologist (b. [[1864]]) * [[July 26]] ** [[Clóvis Beviláqua]], Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist (b. [[1859]]) ** [[Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven]], German resistance member (suicide) (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Takakazu Kinashi]], Japanese submarine commander (killed in action) (b. [[1902]]) ** [[Reza Shah]], 20th [[Prime Minister of Iran]] and [[Pahlavi dynasty|Shah of Iran]] (b. [[1878]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Perry McGillivray]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1893]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Werner Schrader]], German resistance member (suicide) (b. [[1895]]) * [[July 30]] **[[Nikolai Polikarpov]], Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (cancer) (b. [[1892]]) **[[Lee Powell (actor)|Lee Powell]], American actor (killed in action) (b. [[1908]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], French pilot and children's writer (missing on active service) (b. [[1900]]) ===August=== [[File:J%C4%99drzej Moraczewski.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jędrzej Moraczewski]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2008-0184, Berlin, Berthold Schenk Graf v. Stauffenberg.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]]]] [[File:Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Navy.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.]]]] [[File:Teresa Bracco.jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Teresa Bracco]]]] * [[August 1]] – [[Manuel L. Quezon]], Filipino statesman, soldier and politician, 2nd [[President of the Philippines]] (b. [[1878]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Kakuji Kakuta]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1890]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]], Polish poet (b. [[1921]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Jędrzej Moraczewski]], Polish politician, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[August 7]] ** [[Agustín Barrios]], Paraguayan guitarist and composer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://classicalguitarmagazine.com/the-unsung-years-it-took-many-years-for-barrios-to-get-his-due/|title=The Unsung Years: It Took Many Years for Barrios to Get his Due|website=Classical Guitar|date=March 5, 2019 }}</ref> ** [[Jadwiga Falkowska]], Polish teacher and activist (b. [[1889]]) * [[August 8]] ** [[Robert Bernardis]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1908]]) ** [[Albrecht von Hagen]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1904]]) ** [[Paul von Hase]], German general and resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Erich Hoepner]], German colonel-general and resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski]], Polish journalist and novelist (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Hellmuth Stieff]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1901]]) ** [[Michael Wittmann]], German tank commander (killed in action) (b. [[1914]]) ** [[Erwin von Witzleben]], German field marshal and resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1881]]) ** [[Peter Yorck von Wartenburg]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1904]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Felix Nussbaum]], German painter (b. [[1904]]) * [[August 10]] ** [[Alfred Kranzfelder]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1908]]) ** [[Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1902]]) ** [[Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg]], Nazi opponent and lawyer (b. [[1905]]) ** [[Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1917]]) * [[August 11]] ** [[Francesco Federico Falco]], Italian doctor (b. [[1866]]) ** [[Hideyoshi Obata]], Japanese general (b. [[1890]]) * [[August 12]] ** [[Jose Garvida Flores]], Filipino writer, poet and playwright (b. [[1900]]) ** [[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.]], American fighter pilot, oldest son of [[Joseph P. Kennedy]] (b. [[1915]]) ** [[Suzanne Spaak]], Belgian World War II heroine (b. [[1905]]) * [[August 15]] ** [[Egbert Hayessen]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1913]]) ** [[Hans Bernd von Haeften]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1905]]) ** [[Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff]], German police chief and resistance fighter (b. [[1896]]) * [[August 17]] ** [[Franciszek Brodniewicz]], Polish actor (b. [[1892]]) ** [[Eugénio de Castro]], Portuguese poet and writer (b. [[1869]]) * [[August 18]] ** [[Eugeniusz Horbaczewski]], Polish pilot (b. [[1917]]) ** [[Ernst Thälmann]], German Communist leader (executed) (b. [[1886]]) * [[August 19]] ** [[Günther von Kluge]], German field marshal (suicide) (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Henry Wood|Sir Henry Wood]], British conductor (b. [[1869]]) * [[August 21]] ** [[Friedrich Gustav Jaeger]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Maciej Kalenkiewicz]], Polish engineer and military officer (b. [[1906]]) ** [[Marian Lalewicz]], Polish architect (b. [[1876]]) * [[August 23]] ** [[Aleksander Augustynowicz]], Polish painter (b. [[1865]]) ** [[Abdülmecid II]], last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1868]]) ** [[Nikolai Roslavets]], Soviet composer (b. [[1880]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia]], Italian aviator (b. [[1915]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Teresio Vittorio Martinoli]], Italian pilot (b. [[1917]]) * [[August 26]] ** [[Hans Georg Klamroth]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Otto Kiep]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Hans Leesment]], Estonian general (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1906]]) ** [[Adam von Trott zu Solz]], German diplomat and resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1909]]) * [[August 27]] – [[Carlo Fecia di Cossato]], Italian navy officer (b. [[1908]]) * [[August 28]] ** [[Teresa Bracco]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (killed in battle) (b. [[1924]]) ** [[Rudolf Breitscheid]], German politician (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Bronislaw Kaminski]], Polish army officer (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Princess Mafalda of Savoy]] (b. [[1902]]) * [[August 30]] ** [[Moissaye Boguslawski]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1887]]) ** [[Eberhard Finckh]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Hans Otfried von Linstow]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel]], German general and resistance leader (b. [[1886]]) ===September=== [[File:Robert Benoist Monza 1927 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Benoist]]]] [[File:Joseph Mueller (Priester).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Joseph Müller (priest)|Joseph Müller]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0113-0500-001, Gustav Bauer(cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Gustav Bauer]]]] [[File:Hendrik Colijn (1925).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Hendrikus Colijn]]]] [[File:David Dougal Williams (artist).jpg|100px|thumb|[[David Dougal Williams]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Krystyna Dąbrowska]], Polish sculptor and painter (b. [[1906]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Maria Vetulani de Nisau]], Polish soldier (b. [[1898]]) *[[September 3]] – [[Friedrich Alpers]], German Nazi politician and general (b. [[1901]]) * [[September 4]] ** [[Erich Fellgiebel]], German general and resistance fighter (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1909]]) ** [[Fritz Thiele]], German general and resistance fighter (b. [[1894]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Gustave Biéler]], Swiss WWII hero (b. [[1904]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Jan Franciszek Czartoryski]], Polish [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar, martyr and blessed (b. [[1897]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes]], Cuban composer (b. [[1897]]) * [[September 8]] ** [[Georg Hansen]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1904]]) ** [[Ulrich von Hassell]], German diplomat and resistance fighter (b. [[1881]]) ** [[Paul Lejeune-Jung]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1902]]) ** [[Günther Smend]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1912]]) ** [[Josef Wirmer]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1901]]) * [[September 11]] ** [[Robert Benoist]], French race car driver and war hero (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Joseph Müller (priest)|Joseph Müller]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and Servant of God (executed) (b. [[1894]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Robert Fiske (actor)|Robert Fiske]], American actor (b. [[1889]]) * [[September 13]] ** [[Yolande Beekman]], French WWII heroine (executed) (b. [[1911]]) ** [[Madeleine Damerment]], French WWII heroine (executed) (b. [[1917]]) ** [[Noor Inayat Khan]], Indian WWII heroine (executed) (b. [[1914]]) ** [[Eliane Plewman]], British WWII heroine (executed) (b. [[1917]]) ** [[W. Heath Robinson]], British cartoonist and illustrator (b. [[1872]]) * [[September 14]] ** [[Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1882]]) ** [[John Kenneth Macalister]], Canadian WWII hero (b. [[1914]]) ** [[Michael Graf von Matuschka]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1888]]) ** [[Frank Pickersgill]], Canadian WWII hero (b. [[1915]]) ** [[Roméo Sabourin]], Canadian WWII hero (b. [[1923]]) ** [[Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband]], German resistance fighter (executed) (b. [[1877]]) ** [[Hermann Josef Wehrle]], German Catholic priest and resistance member (executed) (b. [[1899]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Gustav Bauer]], 11th [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1870]]) * [[September 18]] ** [[Hendrikus Colijn]], Dutch policeman, politician and businessman, 25th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1869]]) ** [[Anton Saefkow]], German communist (executed) (b. [[1903]]) * [[September 19]] – [[Guy Gibson]], British bomber pilot (b. [[1918]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Friedrich Boedicker]], German admiral (b. [[1866]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Fritz Lindemann]], German army officer (died of wounds) (b. [[1894]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Matylda Palfyova]], Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (b. [[1912]]) * [[September 25]] ** [[Walter Breisky]], Austrian civil servant, acting [[Chancellor of Austria]] (b. [[1871]]) ** [[Eugeniusz Lokajski]], Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer (b. [[1909]]) ** [[Leo Chiozza Money]], Italian-British economist and politician (b. [[1870]]) * [[September 27]] ** [[Aimee Semple McPherson]], Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Bahr|first=Robert|title=Least of All Saints: the Story of Aimee Semple McPherson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4wcAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Prentice-Hall|location=Englewood Cliffs|isbn=978-0-13-527978-6|oclc=4493103}}</ref> ** [[Aristide Maillol]], French sculptor and painter (b. [[1861]]) ** [[David Dougal Williams]], British painter (b. [[1888]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Josef Bürckel]], German Nazi gauleiter (b. [[1895]]) * [[September 29]] ** [[Otto Herfurth]], German general and resistance fighter (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Wilhelm Leuschner]] German politician and resistance fighter (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Joachim Meichssner]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1906]]) ** [[Joachim Sadrozinski]], German resistance fighter (b. [[1907]]) ===October=== [[File:Stefanina Moro.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stefanina Moro]]]] [[File:Ramoncastillo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ramón Castillo]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1977-018-13A, Erwin Rommel(brighter).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Erwin Rommel]]]] [[File:Jose de la Riva Aguero y Osma.jpg|thumb|100px|[[José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma]]]] * [[October 1]] ** [[Max Ehrlich]], German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/western-europe/westerbork/max-ehrlich/|title=Max Ehrlich|website=holocaustmusic.ort.org}}</ref> ** [[William Mulock|Sir William Mulock]], Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman (b. [[1843]]) ** [[Rudolf Schmundt]], German general (b. [[1896]]) * [[October 2]] ** [[Benjamin Fondane]], Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (gassed in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]) (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Julián Felipe]], Filipino musician and bandleader (b. [[1861]]) ** [[Maeda Toshisada]], Japanese politician (b. [[1874]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Al Smith]], American politician (b. [[1873]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Prince Gustav of Denmark]] (b. [[1887]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Wendell Willkie]], American politician (b. [[1892]]) * [[October 9]] ** [[Kitty Marion]], German-born actress and women's rights activist in England and the United States (b. [[1871]]) ** [[Stefanina Moro]], Italian resistance member (b. [[1927]]) * [[October 12]] ** [[Ramón Castillo]], Argentinian politician, 25th [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Carl Langbehn]], German resistance member (b. [[1901]]) ** [[Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz]], German resistance member (b. [[1886]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal]], German resistance member (b. [[1907]]) ** [[Roland von Hößlin]], German resistance member (b. [[1915]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Erwin Rommel]], German field marshal (b. [[1891]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Anton Hafner]], German aviator (b. [[1918]]) * [[October 18]] ** [[Alexander, Prince of Erbach-Schönberg]] (b. [[1872]]) ** [[Josef Maria Eder]], Austrian chemist (b. [[1855]]) * [[October 19]] ** [[Isadore Bernstein]], American screenwriter (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Deneys Reitz]], South African soldier and diplomat (b. [[1882]]) * [[October 20]] ** [[Eduard Brücklmeier]], German diplomat and resistance member (b. [[1903]]) ** [[Hermann Maaß]], German politician and resistance member (b. [[1897]]) ** [[Adolf Reichwein]], German politician and resistance member (b. [[1898]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Nell Brinkley]], American illustrator and comic artist (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Nell_Brinkley/70374/Nell_Brinkley.aspx|title=Nell Brinkley - Biography|website=www.askart.com}}</ref> ** [[Hilma af Klint]], Swedish abstract painter (b. [[1862]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Richard Bennett (actor)|Richard Bennett]], American actor (b. [[1870]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Charles Glover Barkla]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]]) * [[October 24]] ** [[Louis Renault (industrialist)|Louis Renault]], French industrialist, founder of ''[[Renault]]'' (b. [[1877]]) ** [[Karl Freiherr von Thüngen]], German general and resistance member (executed) (b. [[1893]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Shōji Nishimura]], Japanese vice admiral (b. [[1889]]) ** [[José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma]], Peruvian historian, writer and politician, 84th [[Prime Minister of Peru]] (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Yukio Seki]], Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. [[1921]]) * [[October 26]] ** [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom]], youngest and last surviving child of [[Queen Victoria]] (b. [[1857]]) ** [[Hiroyoshi Nishizawa]], Japanese fighter ace (b. [[1920]]) ** [[William Temple (bishop)|William Temple]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1881]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Judith Auer]], German World War II resistance fighter (b. [[1905]]) * [[October 31]] ** [[Henrietta Crosman]], American actress (b. [[1861]]) ** [[Joseph Hubert Priestley]], British botanist (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Prof. J. H. Priestley|first=W. H.|last=Pearsall|date=December 21, 1944|journal=Nature|volume=154|issue=3918|pages=694|doi=10.1038/154694a0|bibcode=1944Natur.154..694P |s2cid=3998725 |doi-access=free}}</ref> ===November=== [[File:Andrzej Szeptycki (a).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrey Sheptytsky]]]] [[File:Carl Lampert (1918).jpg|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Carl Lampert]]]] [[File:(Joseph Caillaux) - (photographie de presse) - (Agence Rol).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Caillaux]]]] [[File:Florence Foster Jenkins.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Florence Foster Jenkins]]]] * [[November 1]] ** [[Ismael Pérez Pazmiño]], Ecuadoran journalist and politician (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Andrey Sheptytsky]], Soviet [[Eastern Catholic]] archbishop and venerable (b. [[1865]]) * [[November 2]] ** [[Karol Irzykowski]], Polish writer (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Thomas Midgley Jr.]], American chemist and inventor (b. [[1889]]) * [[November 4]] – [[John Dill|Sir John Dill]], British field marshal (b. [[1881]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Alexis Carrel]], French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1873]]) * [[November 7]] ** [[Max Bergmann]], German biochemist (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Richard Sorge]], German-born Soviet spy, executed (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Hannah Szenes]], Hungarian World War II heroine, poet, executed (b. [[1921]]) * [[November 10]] ** [[Wang Jingwei]], Chinese statesman, President of the Nanjing-based and Japanese-supported collaborationist Government of the Republic of China (b. [[1883]]) ** [[Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg]], German diplomat and resistance member (b. 1875) * [[November 12]] ** [[George David Birkhoff]], American mathematician (b. [[1884]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-David-Birkhoff George David Birkhoff American mathematician]</ref> ** [[George Houston (actor)|George Houston]], American actor (b. [[1896]]) ** [[Otto Frank (physiologist)|Otto Frank]], German physiologist (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per380|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115072637/http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per380|url-status=live|archive-date=November 15, 2009|title=Frank, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Otto|accessdate=April 15, 2023}}</ref> * [[November 13]] ** [[Carl Lampert]], Austrian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1894]]) ** [[Friedrich Lorenz]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1897]]) * [[November 14]] ** [[Walter Cramer]], German resistance member (b. 1886) ** [[Trafford Leigh-Mallory|Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory]], British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (b. [[1892]]) ** [[Bernhard Letterhaus]], German trade unionist and resistance member (b. 1894) ** [[Ferdinand von Lüninck]], German politician and resistance member (b. 1888) * [[November 16]] – [[Maria Rodziewiczówna]], Polish writer (b. [[1863]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Ignacio Bolívar]], Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. [[1850]]) * [[November 22]] ** [[Joseph Caillaux]], French politician, 57th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Arthur Eddington|Sir Arthur Eddington]], British astronomer, physicist and mathematician (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Sadakichi Hartmann]], Japanese-born American critic and poet (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sadakichi-hartmann|title=Sadakichi Hartmann|first=Poetry|last=Foundation|date=June 14, 2022|website=Poetry Foundation}}</ref> ** [[Johan Pitka]], Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain and admiral (b. [[1872]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]], 1st commissioner of [[Major League Baseball]] (b. [[1866]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Florence Foster Jenkins]], American socialite and singer (b. [[1868]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Lilo Gloeden]], German resistance member (b. 1903) ===December=== [[File:Prince_Andrew_of_Greece.JPG|thumb|right|100px|[[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark]]]] [[File:Vassily-Kandinsky.jpeg|thumb|right|100px|[[Wassily Kandinsky]]]] [[File:Lupe Vélez in 1941.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lupe Vélez]]]] [[File:Sara Salkahazi.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Blessed [[Sára Salkaházi]]]] * [[December 1]] – [[Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł]], Polish nobleman and activist (b. [[1878]]) * [[December 2]] ** [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]], Italian poet, editor and art theorist, founder of the [[Futurism|Futurist]] movement (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Josef Lhévinne]], Soviet pianist (b. [[1874]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark]] (b. [[1882]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Roger Bresnahan]], American baseball player and member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Laird Cregar]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1919-1944)|Montgomery Cunningham Meigs]], American WWII hero (b. [[1919]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Bernard Chrzanowski]], Polish activist (b. [[1861]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Wassily Kandinsky]], Russian-born Polish artist (b. [[1866]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Lupe Vélez]], Mexican actress, dancer and singer (b. [[1908]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Glenn Miller]], American band leader (accident) (b. [[1904]]) * [[December 19]] – King [[Abbas II of Egypt]] (b. [[1874]]) * [[December 20]] ** [[Caesar von Hofacker]], German resistance member (b. 1896) ** [[Fritz Pfeffer]], German-Dutch housemate of [[Anne Frank]] (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/fritz-pfeffer/|title=Fritz Pfeffer}}</ref> ** [[Carl Wentzel]], German resistance member (b. 1875) * [[December 22]] – [[Harry Langdon]], American comedian (b. [[1884]]) * [[December 26]] – [[George Bellamy (actor)|George Bellamy]], British actor (b. [[1866]]) * [[December 27]] ** [[Amy Beach]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amybeach.org/|title=AMY BEACH (1867-1944)|website=AMY BEACH (1867-1944)}}</ref> ** [[Peter Deunov]], Bulgarian spiritual teacher (b. [[1864]]) ** [[Sára Salkaházi]], Hungarian [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (b. [[1899]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Romain Rolland]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1866]]) * [[December 31]] **[[Vicente Lim]], Filipino general of the [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] (b. [[1888]]) **[[Ruth Hanna McCormick]], American politician, activist and publisher (b. [[1880]])
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