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==Deaths== ===January=== <!--[[File:Diego Martinez Barrio.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Diego Martínez Barrio]]]]--> [[File:Ernie kovacs 1956.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Ernie Kovacs]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Diego Martínez Barrio]], Spanish politician, 2-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1883]]) * [[January 4]] – [[Hans Lammers]], German Nazi minister (b. [[1879]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Ernie Kovacs]], American TV comedian (b. [[1919]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Cl4bAAAAIBAJ&pg=7413,3280246&dq=ernie+kovacs&hl=en|title=Show World Mourns Death of Kovacs|date=January 14, 1962|newspaper=Pittsburgh Press|access-date=August 26, 2013}}</ref> * [[January 16]] ** [[Ivan Meštrović]], Croatian-born American sculptor and architect (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Mestrovic|title=Ivan Meštrović | American sculptor | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=January 12, 2024 }}</ref> ** [[R. H. Tawney]], English historian and social critic (b. [[1880]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Gerrit Achterberg]], Dutch poet (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roy Temple House|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZwJAAAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=163}}</ref> * [[January 19]] – [[Snub Pollard]], American actor (b. [[1889]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Robinson Jeffers]], American poet (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robinson Jeffers|author2=Tim Hunt|title=The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_UytKkgbbMC&pg=PA6-IA9|year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4108-8|pages=6}}</ref> * [[January 21]] – [[Arturo Bragaglia]], Italian actor (b. [[1893]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Lucky Luciano]], American gangster (b. [[1897]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Fritz Kreisler]], Austrian violinist (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/30/archives/fritz-kreisler-dies-here-at-86-violinist-composed-200-works-made.html |title=Fritz Kreisler Dies Here at 86 |newspaper=The New York Times|quote=Fritz Kreisler, the world-famous violinist and composer, died yesterday. He would have been 87 years old on Friday. ... |date=January 30, 1962 |access-date=July 3, 2013}}</ref> ===February=== [[File:Roy Atwell 1940.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Roy Atwell]]]] [[File:Hu Shih 1960 color.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hu Shih]]]] * [[February 1]] – [[Carey Wilson (writer)|Carey Wilson]], American screenwriter (b. [[1889]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Shlomo Hestrin]], Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b. [[1914]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Daniel Halévy]], French historian (b. [[1872]]) * [[February 5]] ** [[Jacques Ibert]], French composer (b. [[1890]]) ** [[James B. Leonardo]], American politician (b. [[1889]]) * [[February 6]] ** [[Roy Atwell]], American actor, comedian and composer (b. [[1878]]) ** [[Hussein Khalidi]], Jordanian statesman, 29th [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Cândido Portinari]], Brazilian painter (b. [[1903]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Eduard von Steiger]], Swiss politician, 51st [[President of the Swiss Confederation]] (b. [[1881]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Indalecio Prieto]], Spanish Socialist politician (b. [[1891]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Hugh Dalton]], British Labour politician (b. [[1887]]) * [[February 17]] ** [[Joseph Kearns]], American actor (b. [[1907]]) ** [[Bruno Walter]], German conductor (b. [[1876]]) * [[February 19]] ** [[James Barton (actor)|James Barton]], American actor (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Georgios Papanikolaou]], Greek inventor (b. [[1883]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Halliwell Hobbes]], English-born film actor (b. [[1877]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Hu Shih]], Chinese philosopher (b. [[1891]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Antonina De Angelis]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] professed sister and blessed (b. [[1880]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Willie Best]], American actor (b. [[1916]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Chic Johnson]], American actor (b. [[1891]]) ===March=== [[File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arthur Compton]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13738, Auguste Piccard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Auguste Piccard]]]] * [[March 1]] ** [[Roscoe Ates]], American actor (b. [[1895]]) ** [[Richard L. Conolly]], American admiral (b. [[1892]]) ** [[W. Alton Jones]], American industrialist and philanthropist (b. [[1891]]) ** [[Emelyn Whiton]], American Olympic sailor (b. [[1916]]) * [[March 2]] – [[Walt Kiesling]], American football player ([[Chicago Cardinals]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1903]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Pierre Benoit (novelist)|Pierre Benoit]], French novelist (b. [[1886]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Giovanna Berneri]], Italian educationalist and anarchist (b. [[1897]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Arthur Compton]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite journal |last=Allison |first =Samuel K. |author-link=Samuel King Allison |year=1965 |title=Arthur Holly Compton 1892–1962 |journal=Biographical Memoirs |volume=38 |pages=81–110 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |issn=0077-2933 |oclc=1759017}}</ref> * [[March 19]] – [[Vasily Stalin]], Soviet general and son of [[Joseph Stalin]] (b. [[1921]]) * [[March 20]] ** [[C. Wright Mills]], American sociologist (b. [[1916]]) ** [[A. E. Douglass]], American astronomer and founder of dendrochronology (b. [[1867]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Josef van Schaik]], Dutch politician (b. [[1882]]) * [[March 24]] ** [[Jean Goldkette]], Greek-born jazz musician (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Auguste Piccard]], Swiss physicist, aeronaut and explorer (b. [[1884]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Augusta Savage]], American sculptor (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Johnson Publishing Company|title=Jet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20|date=27 March 1995|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|pages=20}}</ref> ===April=== [[File:Benny "the kid" Paret in fighting pose before his death.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Benny Paret]]]] [[File:Louise Fazenda in The Casino Murder Case trailer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Louise Fazenda]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Jussi Kekkonen]], Finnish major (b. [[1910]]) * [[April 3]] – [[Benny Paret]], Cuban welterweight boxer, died as result of [[Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III|injuries in the ring]]; b. [[1937]]) * [[April 4]] – [[James Hanratty]], English murderer, one of the last people to be hanged in the U.K. (b. [[1936]])<ref>"Hanratty, James", in ''The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003) p681</ref> * [[April 5]] – [[Käte Selbmann]], German politician (b. [[1906]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herbst |first=Andreas |author-link=Andreas Herbst |url=https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/recherche/kataloge-datenbanken/biographische-datenbanken/kaete-selbmann |title=Who Was Who in the GDR? |date=2009 |publisher=Ch. Links Verlag |publication-place=Berlin |language=de |chapter=Selbmann, Käte |access-date=2024-04-12 |via=[[Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung]]}}</ref> * [[April 8]] – [[Juan Belmonte]], Spanish bullfighter (b. [[1892]]) * [[April 10]] ** [[Michael Curtiz]], Austrian-born film director (b. [[1886]]) ** [[Manton S. Eddy]], American general (b. [[1892]]) * [[April 14]] – [[M. Visvesvaraya]], Indian engineer and politician (b. [[1861]]) * [[April 15]] ** [[Clara Blandick]], American actress (b. [[1876]]) ** [[Arsenio Lacson]], Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. [[1911]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Louise Fazenda]], American actress (b. [[1895]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Grover Whalen]], American politician (b. [[1886]]) * [[April 21]] – Sir [[Frederick Handley Page]], English aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1885]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Vera Reynolds]], American actress (b. [[1899]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Josefa Toledo de Aguerri]], Nicaraguan pioneer educator (b. [[1866]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Gianna Beretta Molla]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] pediatrician and saint (b. [[1922]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Hajime Tanabe]], Japanese philosopher (b. [[1885]]) ===May=== <!--[[File:Ernest Tyldesley c1925.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ernest Tyldesley]]]]--> [[File:PRamirez.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pedro Pablo Ramírez]]]] * [[May 3]] – [[Helen Dortch Longstreet]], American social advocate, librarian and newspaper publisher (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.georgiawomen.org/helen-dortch-longstreet|title=Helen Dortch Longstreet | Georgia Women of Achievement|website=georgiawomen}}</ref> * [[May 5]] – [[Ernest Tyldesley]], English cricketer (b. [[1889]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Shunroku Hata]], Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. [[1879]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Pedro Pablo Ramírez]], Argentine military general, 26th [[President of Argentina]], leader of the [[World War II]] (b. [[1884]]) * [[May 13]] ** [[H. Trendley Dean]], American dental researcher (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Franz Kline]], American painter (b. [[1910]]) * [[May 19]] – [[Gabriele Münter]], German painter (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gabriele-Munter|title=Gabriele Münter | German artist | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=February 15, 2024 }}</ref> * [[May 23]] – [[Rubén Jaramillo]], peasant leader, assassinated by the [[Mexican Army]] (b. 1900)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo|title=¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?|publisher=Relatos e Historias de Mexico|last=Salmerón|first=Luis|date=July 3, 2018|access-date=June 1, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Who was Ruben Jaramillo?}}</ref> * [[May 26]] – [[Wilfrid Wilson Gibson]], English poet (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcHiAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-2674-7|page=157}}</ref> * [[May 27]] – [[Egon Petri]], German pianist (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Judith Michelle Crispin|title=The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Ferruccio Busoni and Its Reinvigoration in the Music of Larry Sitsky: The Operas Doktor Faust and The Golem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGoIAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press|isbn=978-0-7734-5407-1|page=75}}</ref> * [[May 31]] – [[Henry F. Ashurst]], American politician (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4674|title=Our Campaigns - Candidate - Henry F. Ashurst|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}</ref> ===June=== [[File:Eugeniusz Baziak.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eugeniusz Baziak]]]] * [[June 1]] – [[Adolf Eichmann]], German SS officer and a major organiser of the Holocaust (executed) (b. [[1906]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Hull | first = William L. | author-link = William Lovell Hull | title = The Struggle for a Soul | year = 1963 | publisher = Doubleday | location = New York | oclc = 561109771 |page=160}}</ref> * [[June 2]] – [[Vita Sackville-West]], English writer and landscape gardener (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nigel Nicolson|title=Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqNaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT371|date=28 June 2018|publisher=Orion|isbn=978-1-4746-1086-5|pages=371}}</ref> * [[June 4]] – [[William Beebe]], American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and entomologist (b. [[1877]]) * [[June 6]] ** [[Abba Ahimeir]], Soviet-born Israeli journalist (b. [[1897]]) ** [[Yves Klein]], French painter (b. [[1928]]) ** [[Guinn Williams (actor)|Guinn Williams]], American actor (b. [[1899]]) ** [[Joe Profaci]], Italian-American mobster (b. [[1897]]) * [[June 7]] – [[Korneli Kekelidze]], Georgian philologist (b. [[1879]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Eugène Freyssinet]], French civil engineer (b. [[1879]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Polly Adler]], Russian-born American author and madam (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 |title=Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary |date=1980 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674627338 |editor-last=Sicherman |editor-first=Barbara |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 7] |oclc=6487187 |editor-last2=Green |editor-first2=Carol Hurd}}</ref> * [[June 12]] – [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]], English composer (b. [[1879]]) * [[June 13]] – [[Eugene Aynsley Goossens|Sir Eugene Goossens]], English composer (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Amanda Holden|title=The New Penguin Opera Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8UdHhxWH-sC|year=2001|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-051475-9|page=334}}</ref> * [[June 15]] ** [[Eugeniusz Baziak]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Alfred Cortot]], Swiss pianist and conductor (b. [[1877]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Aleksei Antonov]], General of the Soviet Army (b. [[1896]]) * [[June 19]] ** [[Frank Borzage]], American film director (b. [[1894]]) ** [[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]], American character actor (b. [[1891]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Lucile Watson]], Canadian actress (b. [[1879]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Raymond Leane|Sir Raymond Leane]], Australian army general (b. [[1878]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Paul Viiding]], Estonian poet, author and literary critic (b. [[1904]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Mickey Cochrane]], American baseball player (b. [[1903]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Charles Lyon Chandler]], American historian (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Avenius|first=Sheldon H. Jr.|date=April 1967|title=Charles Lyon Chandler: A Forgotten Man of Inter-American Cultural Relations|journal=Journal of Inter-American Studies|volume=9|issue=2|pages=169–183|doi=10.2307/165091|jstor=<!-- Deny Citation bot -->}}</ref> ===July=== [[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Faulkner]]]] [[File:Denjirō Ōkōchi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Denjirō Ōkōchi]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], Indian physician and politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (b. [[1882]]) * [[July 2]] ** [[Arconovaldo Bonaccorsi]], Italian soldier (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Valeska Suratt]], American stage actress, silent film star (b. [[1882]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Rex Bell]], American actor and politician (b. [[1903]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[John Anderson (philosopher)|John Anderson]], British-born Australian philosopher (b. [[1893]]) ** [[Paul Boffa|Sir Paul Boffa]], Maltese politician, 5th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (b. [[1890]]) ** [[William Faulkner]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gene D. Phillips|title=Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wrm3ZWTfrmEC&pg=PA184|year=1988|publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|isbn=978-1-57233-166-2|pages=184}}</ref> ** [[Archduke Joseph August of Austria]], Austrian field marshal and former regent of Hungary (b. [[1872]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Georges Bataille]], French writer and philosopher (b. [[1897]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Yehuda Leib Maimon]], Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. [[1875]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Owen D. Young]], American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat (b. [[1874]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Roger Wolfe Kahn]], American band leader (b. [[1907]]) * [[July 13]] – [[Jerry Wald]], American screenwriter and producer (b. [[1911]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Denjirō Ōkōchi]], Japanese actor (b. [[1898]]) * [[July 21]] – [[G. M. Trevelyan]], English historian (b. [[1876]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Victor Moore]], American actor (b. [[1876]]) * [[July 26]] ** [[Raquel Meller]], Spanish singer and actress (b. [[1888]]) ** [[George Preca]], Maltese [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1880]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Richard Aldington]], English poet (b. [[1892]]) * [[July 29]] ** [[Leonardo De Lorenzo]], Italian flautist (b. [[1875]]) ** [[Ronald Fisher|Sir Ronald Fisher]], English-born statistician and geneticist (b. [[1890]]) * [[July 30]] – [[Myron McCormick]], American actor (b. [[1908]]) ===August=== [[File:Marilyn Monroe 1952.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marilyn Monroe]]]] [[File:Hermann Hesse 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hermann Hesse]]]] <!--[[File:Charles Rigoulot 1923.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Rigoulot]]]]--> <!--[[File:DusanSImovicPedroIIDeYugoslaviaYKnezevicEnLondres21061941.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dušan Simović]]]]--> * [[August 4]] – [[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress (b. [[1926]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Ramón Pérez de Ayala]], Spanish writer and diplomat (b. [[1880]]) * [[August 6]] ** [[Ángel Borlenghi]], Argentine labor leader and politician (b. [[1904]]) ** [[Emmi Mäkelin]], Finnish midwife and politician (b. [[1874]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Hermann Hesse]], German-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ingo Cornils|title=A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKp0AeFMaRQC&pg=PA6|year=2009|publisher=Camden House|isbn=978-1-57113-330-4|pages=6}}</ref> * [[August 15]] – [[Lei Feng]], Chinese soldier (b. [[1940]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Cleo Ridgely]], American actress (b. [[1893]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Jean Lucienbonnet]], French racing driver (b. [[1923]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Ahmad Ibrahim (Singaporean politician)|Ahmad Ibrahim]], Malaysian-born Singaporean politician (b. [[1927]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Charles Rigoulot]], French Olympic weightlifter (b. [[1903]]) * [[August 23]] ** [[Hoot Gibson]], American actor and film director (b. [[1892]]) **[[Joseph Berchtold]], Nazi officer, Second commander of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] (b. [[1897]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Mykolas Biržiška]], Lithuanian politician (b. [[1882]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Dušan Simović]], Yugoslav general, 18th [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1882]]) * [[August 27]] – [[Leopoldo Panero]], Spanish poet (b. [[1909]]) * [[August 28]] – [[John Collum]], American actor (b. [[1926]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Georgina de Albuquerque]], Brazilian painter (b. [[1885]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski]], Prime Minister of Poland (b. [[1885]]) ===September=== [[File:YemenAhmad.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ahmad bin Yahya]]]] [[File:Ouyang Yuqian1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ouyang Yuqian]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Hans-Jürgen von Arnim]], German general (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Josef Charita|author2=François de Lannoy|title=Panzertruppen: Les Troupes Blindees Allemandes German Armored Troops 1935-1945|publisher=Heimdal|year=2001|isbn=9782840481515|page=21}}</ref> * [[September 3]] – [[E. E. Cummings]], American poet (b. [[1894]]) * [[September 4]] ** [[Juan Atilio Bramuglia]], Argentine composer (b. [[1903]]) ** [[William Clothier (tennis)|William Clothier]], American tennis player (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite web|title=William Clothier, 86, Spy and Tennis Star|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/us/william-clothier-86-spy-and-tennis-star.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 April 2012|date=3 November 2002}}</ref> * [[September 5]] – [[Roy MacNairy]], English cricketer (b. [[1904]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Hanns Eisler]], Austrian composer (b. [[1898]]) * [[September 7]] ** [[Karen Blixen]], Danish writer (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Morris Louis]], American painter (b. [[1912]]) ** [[Graham Walker (motorcycle racer)|Graham Walker]], English motorcycle racer (b. [[1896]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Kenkichi Ueda]], Japanese general (b. [[1875]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Wiktor Thommée]], Polish general (b. [[1881]]) * [[September 19]] ** [[Ahmad bin Yahya]], King of Yemen (b. [[1891]]) ** [[Nikolai Pogodin]], Soviet playwright (b. [[1900]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Conrad Helfrich]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1886]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Ouyang Yuqian]], Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer (b. [[1889]]) * [[September 23]] ** [[Louis de Soissons]], Canadian-born English architect (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]], English dramatist (b. [[1904]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha]], [[Prime Minister of Brazil]] (b. [[1910]]) ===October=== [[File:Henri Oreiller 1948.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Henri Oreiller]]]] [[File:Gaston Bachelard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gaston Bachelard]]]] * [[October 1]] – [[Ludwig Bemelmans]], Austro-Hungarian born American writer (b. [[1898]]) * [[October 2]] ** [[Henry Louis Larsen]], American Marine Corps general; [[Governor of American Samoa]] and [[Governor of Guam]] (b. [[1890]]) ** [[Frank Lovejoy]], American actor (b. [[1912]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Tod Browning]], American film director (b. [[1880]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Henri Oreiller]], French Olympic alpine skier (b. [[1925]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Solomon Linda]], South African singer-songwriter (b. [[1909]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Milan Vidmar]], Slovenian chess player (b. [[1885]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Stancho Belkovski]], Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b. [[1891]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Erich von Tschermak]], Austrian agronomist (b. [[1871]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Alberto Teisaire]], Argentine Navy officer and [[Vice President of Argentina|Vice President of the Republic]] (assassinated) (b. [[1891]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Irma Gramatica]], Italian actress (b. [[1870]]) * [[October 16]] ** [[Gaston Bachelard]], French philosopher (b. [[1884]]) ** [[Princess Helen of Serbia]] (b.[[1884]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Natalia Goncharova]], Russian artist (b. [[1881]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Jesús Herrera Alonso|Jesús Herrera]], Spanish international footballer (b. [[1938]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Louise Beavers]], American actress (b. [[1900]]) * [[October 27]] ** [[Otto Froitzheim]], German tennis player (b. [[1884]]) ** [[Enrico Mattei]], Italian politician (plane crash) (b. [[1906]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Louis Massignon]], French Catholic scholar of Islam (b. [[1883]]) ===November=== [[File:Eleanor Roosevelt cph.3b16000.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]]] [[File:Niels Bohr.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Niels Bohr]]]] <!--[[File:René Coty-1929.jpg|thumb|100px|[[René Coty]]]]--> <!--[[File:Jacob Merkelbach, Afb 010164033306.jpg|thumb|100px|Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]]]]--> * [[November 7]] – [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], American politician, diplomat and activist, [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1884]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Willis H. O'Brien]], American [[stop motion]] animator (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/obrien_willis_h|title=SFE: O'Brien, Willis H|website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref> * [[November 14]] ** [[Alwi bin Thahir al-Haddad]], Yemeni-born Malaysian [[Islamic]] scholar (b. [[1884]]) ** [[Manuel Gálvez]], Argentine writer and historian (b. [[1882]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Irene (costume designer)]], American costume designer (b. [[1901]]) * [[November 18]] ** [[Domingo Arrieta León]], Mexican general and statesman (b. [[1874]]) ** [[Niels Bohr]], Danish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Francisco Tudela y Varela]], 68th Prime Minister of Peru (b. [[1876]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Frank Amyot]], Canadian canoeist (b. 1904) * [[November 22]] – [[René Coty]], 17th [[President of France]] (b. [[1882]]) * [[November 23]] – [[Grace Butler]], New Zealand artist (b. [[1886]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Forrest Smithson]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1884]]) * [[November 26]] ** [[Aleksandr Antonov (actor)|Aleksandr Antonov]], Soviet actor (b. [[1898]]) ** [[Albert Sarraut]], 2-time prime minister of France (b. [[1872]]) * [[November 28]] ** [[K. C. Dey]], Indian singer, composer, actor and teacher (b. [[1893]]) ** Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1880]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Erik Scavenius]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] (b. [[1877]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Joseph Lade Pawsey]], Australian radio astronomer (b. [[1908]]) ===December=== [[File:Ahmad nami.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Ahmad Nami]]]] [[File:Switalski K.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Kazimierz Świtalski]]]] * [[December 6]] – [[Harry Bauler]], American politician (b. [[1910]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Kirsten Flagstad]], Norwegian soprano (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred William Cramer|title=Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r547AQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-1-58765-514-2|page=450}}</ref> * [[December 13]] ** [[John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Cunningham]], British admiral (b. [[1885]]) ** [[Ahmad Nami]], Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5th [[Prime Minister of Syria]] and 2nd [[President of Syria]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Alfredo Kindelán]], Spanish general and politician (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Charles Laughton]], English actor and director (b. [[1899]]) * [[December 17]] – [[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]], American actor (b. [[1892]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Garrett Mattingly]], American historian (b. [[1900]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Emil Artin]], Austrian mathematician (b. [[1898]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Gary Hocking]], Rhodesian motorcycle racer (b. [[1937]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Solon Earl Low]], Canadian [[Social Credit Party of Canada|social credit]] politician (b. [[1900]]) * [[December 23]] – [[José Giral]], Spanish politician, former [[Prime Minister of Spain|Prime Minister]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 24]] ** [[Wilhelm Ackermann]], German mathematician (b. [[1896]]) ** [[Eveline Adelheid von Maydell]], German artist (b. [[1890]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Calcedonio Di Pisa]], Italian criminal (b. [[1931]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Kazimierz Świtalski]], Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (b. [[1886]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Arthur Lovejoy]], American philosopher and historian (b. [[1873]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Fawzi Al-Mulki]], Prime Minister of Jordan (b. [[1910]]) * [[Ștefan Balaban]], Romanian general (b. [[1890]]) * [[Abdallah Beyhum]], 10th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. [[1879]]) * [[Petre Cameniță]], Romanian general (b. [[1889]]) * [[Henry Matthew Talintyre]], British comic strip artist (b. [[1893]])
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