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==Deaths== ===January=== [[File:Hank Williams Promotional Photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hank Williams]]]] <!--[[File:Chichibunomiya Yasuhito.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu]]]]--> * [[January 1]] – [[Hank Williams]], American singer-songwriter and musician (b. [[1923]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31hZQKGNscoC&q=Andrew%20Johnson%20Hotel%20hank%20williams&pg=PA296 |title=Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual |author=Olson, Ted |publisher=Mercer University Press |year=2004|isbn=978-0-86554-866-4 |access-date=March 8, 2011|page=306}}</ref> * [[January 2]] – [[Guccio Gucci]], founder of [[Gucci]] (b. [[1881]]) * [[January 4]] ** [[Arthur Hoyt]], American actor (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu]], Japanese prince (b. [[1902]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Charles Edward Merriam]], American political scientist (b. [[1874]]) * [[January 28]] – [[James Scullin]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1876]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Reginald Wingate|Sir Reginald Wingate]], British army general and colonial administrator (b. [[1861]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Lionel Belmore]], English actor (b. [[1867]]) ===February=== <!--[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2000-0518-507, Julius Maniu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Iuliu Maniu]]]]--> [[File:Francesco-Saverio-Nitti1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Francesco Saverio Nitti]]]] * [[February 2]] – [[Alan Curtis (American actor)|Alan Curtis]], American actor (b. [[1909]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Iuliu Maniu]], 32nd [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1873]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Cecil Hepworth]], English director (b. [[1874]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Hal Colebatch]], Australian politician (b. [[1872]]) * [[February 16]] – [[James L. Kraft]], Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anb.org/display/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1000942|title=Kraft, James Lewis (1874-1953), businessman and inventor|website=American National Biography|date=2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1000942 |last1=Sponholtz |first1=Lloyd L. }}</ref> * [[February 19]] – [[Nobutake Kondō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1886]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Francesco Saverio Nitti]], Italian economist and political figure, 24th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1868]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen]], Bavarian general (b. [[1862]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Gerd von Rundstedt]], German field marshal (b. [[1875]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Sergei Winogradsky]], Russian scientist (b. [[1856]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Paul Hurst (actor)|Paul Hurst]], American actor (b. [[1888]]) ===March=== [[File:Joseph Stalin, 1950.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joseph Stalin]]]] [[File:K Gottwald.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Klement Gottwald]]]] * [[March 2]] – [[Jim Lightbody]], American middle-distance runner (b. [[1882]]) * [[March 3]] – [[James J. Jeffries]], American boxing champion (b. [[1875]]) * [[March 5]] ** [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]], American writer and producer (b. [[1897]]) ** [[Sergei Prokofiev]], Soviet and Russian composer (b. [[1891]]) ** [[Joseph Stalin]], Soviet leader (b. [[1878]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Edward Sedgwick]], American director (b. [[1892]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Johan Laidoner]], Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. [[1884]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Klement Gottwald]], 5th [[List of presidents of Czechoslovakia|President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1896]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Carl Stockdale]], American actor (b. [[1874]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Graciliano Ramos]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1892]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Toni Wolff]], Swiss psychoanalyst (b. [[1888]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Gustav Herglotz]], German mathematician (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herglotz/|title=Gustav Herglotz – Biography|website=Maths History}}</ref> * [[March 23]] ** [[Raoul Dufy]], French painter (b. [[1875]]) ** [[Oskar Luts]], Estonian writer and playwright (b. [[1887]]) * [[March 24]] ** [[Mary of Teck]], consort of [[George V|George V of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1867]]) ** [[Paul Couturier]], French priest (b. [[1881]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Jim Thorpe]], Native-American athlete, Olympic medalist and professional baseball player (b. [[1887]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Ivan Lebedeff]], Russian actor (b. [[1895]]) ===April=== [[File:Carol al II-lea.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Carol II of Romania]]]] <!--[[File:Stanisław Wojciechowski Colorized.png|thumb|100px|[[Stanisław Wojciechowski]]]]--> * [[April 2]] ** [[Jean Epstein]], French film director (b. [[1897]]) ** [[Hugo Sperrle]], German field marshal (b. [[1885]]) * [[April 4]] ** King [[Carol II of Romania]] (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Rachilde]], French author (b. [[1860]]) * [[April 9]] ** [[Hans Reichenbach]], German philosopher (b. [[1891]]) ** [[Stanisław Wojciechowski]], 2nd President of the Republic of Poland (b. [[1869]]) * [[April 11]] – [[Boris Kidrič]], 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. [[1912]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Lionel Logue]], Australian speech and language therapist (b. [[1880]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Maud Gonne]], English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; spouse of [[John MacBride]] (b. [[1866]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Alice Prin]], French artists' model (b. [[1901]]) ===May=== [[File:Django Reinhardt (Gottlieb 07301).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Django Reinhardt]]]] <!--[[File:Dámaso Berenguer Fusté.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Damaso Berenguer]]]]--> * [[May 1]] – [[Everett Shinn]], American painter (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web |last=Fitzgerald |first=Jean |title=A Finding Aid to the Everett Shinn Collection, 1877-1958, in the Archives of American Art |date=15 September 2009 |page=3 |url=https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.shinever.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.shinever.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Archives of American Art]] |access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref> * [[May 5]] – [[R. K. Shanmukham Chetty]], Indian jurist, economist (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?8669 Chetty, R.K. Shanmugam]</ref> * [[May 16]] ** [[Nicolae Rădescu]], Romanian military officer and statesman, 45th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ramnicuvalceaweek.ro/valceni-cu-care-ne-mandrim-nicolae-radescu-din-pausesti-otasau-ultimul-premier-necomunist-al-romaniei/ |title=Vâlceni cu care ne mândrim: Nicolae Rădescu, din Păușești Otăsău, ultimul premier necomunist al României |trans-title=Vâlceni we are proud of: Nicolae Rădescu, from Păușești Otăsău, the last non-communist Prime Minister of Romania |date=30 October 2020 |website=Râmnicu Vâlcea Week |language=ro |access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref> ** [[Django Reinhardt]], Belgian jazz musician (b. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/opinion/IHT-1953django-reinhardt-dies-in-our-pages100-75-and-50-years-ago.html |title=1953: Django Reinhardt Dies |newspaper=[[International Herald Tribune]] |via=The New York Times |department=IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO |date=17 May 2003 |access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref> * [[May 19]] – [[Dámaso Berenguer]], Spanish general and prime minister (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=((Britannica)) |first=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Dámaso Berenguer, count de Xauen |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=15 May 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Damaso-Berenguer-conde-de-Xauen |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> * [[May 21]] – [[Ernst Zermelo]], German logician and mathematician (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zermelo/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson |title=Ernst Zermelo (1871 – 1953) – Biography |work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]] |date=February 1999 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> * [[May 30]] – [[Dooley Wilson]], American actor (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Dooley Wilson – Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dooley-wilson-65192 |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> * [[May 31]] – [[Vladimir Tatlin]], Soviet and Russian painter and architect (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=((Britannica)) |first=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Vladimir Tatlin |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=27 May 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Yevgrafovich-Tatlin |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> ===June=== [[File:Norman Ross Sr..JPG|thumb|100px|[[Norman Ross]]]] * [[June 1]] – [[Alex James (footballer)|Alex James]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1901]]) * [[June 5]] ** [[William Farnum]], American actor (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Bill Tilden]], American tennis champion (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Roland Young]], English actor (b. [[1887]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Godfrey Tearle]], British actor (b. [[1884]]) * [[June 18]] – [[René Fonck]], French aviator, top Allied [[World War I]] Flying Ace (b. [[1894]]) * [[June 19]] ** [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]], American communist spies (b. [[1918]] and [[1915]], respectively) (executed on same day) ** [[Norman Ross]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1896]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Albert Gleizes]], French artist and theoretician (b. [[1881]]) * [[June 30]] ** [[Elsa Beskow]], Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Vsevolod Pudovkin]], Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (b. [[1893]]) ===July=== [[File:Dumarsais estime portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dumarsais Estimé]]]] * [[July 9]] – [[Annie Kenney]], British working-class suffragette (b. [[1879]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Oliver Campbell]], American tennis player (b. [[1871]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Herbert Rawlinson]], English actor (b. [[1885]]) * [[July 15]] – [[John Christie (murderer)|John Christie]], English serial killer (b. [[1899]]) (hanged) * [[July 16]] – [[Hilaire Belloc]], French-born British writer and historian (b. [[1870]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Maude Adams]], American actress (b. [[1872]]) * [[July 20]] – [[Dumarsais Estimé]], 30th [[President of Haiti]] (b. [[1900]]) * [[July 26]] – [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and [[Prime Minister of Greece|Prime Minister]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[July 29]] – [[Richard Pearse]], New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. [[1877]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Robert A. Taft]], American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. [[1889]]) ===August=== * [[August 1]] – [[Jānis Mendriks]], Soviet Roman Catholic priest (b. [[1907]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Tazio Nuvolari]], Italian racing driver (b. [[1892]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Ludwig Prandtl]], German physicist (b. [[1875]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Jim Tabor]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]]) * [[August 30]] ** [[Gaetano Merola]], Italian conductor (b. [[1881]]) ** [[Maurice Nicoll]], British psychiatrist (b. [[1884]]) ===September=== [[File:Studio portrait photograph of Edwin Powell Hubble (cropped).JPG|100px|thumb|[[Edwin Hubble]]]] * [[September 2]] – [[Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)|Jonathan M. Wainwright]], American general and Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1883]]) * [[September 5]] ** [[Richard Walther Darré]], Nazi SS General (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Francis Ford (actor)|Francis Ford]], American actor and director (b. [[1881]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Nobuyuki Abe]], Japanese Prime Minister and military leader (b. [[1875]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Fred M. Vinson]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1890]]) * [[September 12]] ** [[Hugo Schmeisser]], German weapons designer (b. [[1884]]) ** [[Lewis Stone]], American actor (b. [[1879]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Erich Mendelsohn]], German architect (b. [[1887]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba]], Spanish aristocrat (born 1878) * [[September 26]] – [[Xu Beihong]], Chinese painter (b. [[1895]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Hans Fritzsche]], German Nazi senior official, one of only three acquitted at the [[Nuremberg trials]] (b. [[1900]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Edwin Hubble]], American astronomer (b. [[1889]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Lewis Fry Richardson]], English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist (b. [[1881]]) ===October=== [[File:Hjalmar_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hjalmar Hammarskjold]]]] * [[October 3]] – [[Arnold Bax|Sir Arnold Bax]], English composer (b. [[1887]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Porter Hall]], American actor (b. [[1888]]) * [[October 8]] ** [[Nigel Bruce]], British actor (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Kathleen Ferrier]], British contralto (b. [[1912]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kathleenferrier.org.uk/index.php/biography|title=Biography of Kathleen Ferrier|publisher=Kathleen Ferrier Society|access-date=4 March 2019}}</ref> * [[October 12]] – [[Hjalmar Hammarskjöld]], Swedish politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]], one of the leaders of [[World War I]] (b. [[1862]]) * [[October 13]] – [[Millard Mitchell]], American actor (b. [[1903]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Holger Pedersen (linguist)|Holger Pedersen]], Dutch linguist (b. [[1867]]) ===November=== [[File:Ibn Saud.png|thumb|100px|King [[Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia|Ibu Saud]]]] * [[November 8]] – [[Ivan Bunin]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1870]]) * [[November 9]] ** King [[Ibn Saud]] of Saudi Arabia (b. [[1875]]) ** [[Dylan Thomas]], Welsh poet and author (b. [[1914]]) * [[November 16]] – [[T. F. O'Rahilly]], Irish academic (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/orahilly-thomas-francis-t-f-a6977|title=O'Rahilly, Thomas Francis ('T. F.') | Dictionary of Irish Biography|website=dib.ie}}</ref> * [[November 18]] – [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]], American composer (b. [[1901]]) * [[November 22]] – [[Sulaiman Nadvi]], Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. [[1884]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Rudolf Bauer (artist)|Rudolf Bauer]], German-born painter (b. [[1889]]) * [[November 29]] ** [[Ernest Barnes]], English mathematician, scientist and theologian (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Sam De Grasse]], Canadian actor (b. [[1875]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Francis Picabia]], French painter and poet (b. [[1879]]) ===December=== <!--[[File:Jorge Negrete publicity photo, c.1940s (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jorge Negrete]]]]--> [[File:Robert Andrews Millikan 1920s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Andrews Millikan]]]] <!--[[File:Lavrenti-Beria.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lavrentiy Beria]]]]--> * [[December 2]] – [[Trần Trọng Kim]], Vietnamese historian and Prime Minister of the [[Empire of Vietnam]] (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1055|title=Tran Trong Kim|website=WW2DB}}</ref> * [[December 5]] – [[Jorge Negrete]], Mexican singer and actor (b. [[1911]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Abdullah Yusuf Ali]], Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. [[1872]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]], American writer (b. [[1896]]) * [[December 19]] – [[Robert Andrews Millikan]], American physicist [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Lavrentiy Beria]], [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1899]]) * [[December 27]] ** [[Şükrü Saracoğlu]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Turkey]] (b. [[1887]]) ** [[Julian Tuwim]], Polish poet (b. [[1894]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Albert Plesman]], Dutch aviation pioneer (b. [[1889]])
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