Deaths Date 1935 May | History by KabAstro

Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935)

May 12 Father of the Second Polish Republic who served as its Chief of State (1918-22), Marshall of Poland and later its de facto leader (1926-35), dies at 67

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)

May 14 German physician and gay rights advocate, dies of a heart attack at 67

May 15 Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Ukrainian avant-garde painter, diesof cancer at 56
May 17 Paul Dukas, French composer (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), dies at 69
May 19 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer, dies at 74

T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

May 19 British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, dies at 46, in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England

May 20 Ivans [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer and detective writer, dies at 68
May 21 Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel's theory of heredity and for his work on genes (The Mutation Theory), dies at 87

Jane Addams (1860-1935)

May 21 American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), dies at 65 [1]

May 25 Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer, dies at 71
May 29 Josef Suk, Czech violinist (Bohemian String Quartet, 1891-1933), composer (Asrael Symphony; Ripening; Serenade for Strings), and educator, dies at 61
May 30 Lothar Windsperger, German composer and editor, dies at 49

Famous People Who Died in May 1935

Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935)

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)

T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

Jane Addams (1860-1935)

Famous People by Cause of Death