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George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Jan 5 African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), dies at 81

Jan 7 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), dies at 78

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Jan 7 Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor who developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, dies at 86

Jan 8 Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league five eighth (RL pioneer; Hunslet 713 games), dies at 71
Jan 8 Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (The Last Enemy), dies in a crash during a night training at 23
Jan 9 Robin G. Collingwood, English philosopher. historian ("The Principles of Art"; "The Idea of History") and archaeologist (Roman Britain), dies at 53
Jan 11 Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina (1932-38) during the Infamous Decade, dies at 66
Jan 11 Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
Jan 12 Frank Alvord Perret, American volcanologist renowned for his research at Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea dies at 75
Jan 12 Jan Campert, Dutch resistance fighter and poet (18 Dead), dies at 40
Jan 13 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist and dancer, dies of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning at 53
Jan 14 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, dies at 78
Jan 16 Franz Courtens, Belgian landscape painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88
Jan 20 Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer, dies at 57
Jan 21 Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
Jan 23 Alexander Woollcott, American drama critic (The New Yorker), dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56
Jan 24 John Burns, British minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
Jan 25 Spencer Charters, American actor (3 Faces West, Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), dies at 67
Jan 26 Harry H. Laughlin, American educator and eugenicist, dies at 62
Jan 26 Nikolai Vavilov, Soviet botanist and geneticist (identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants), dies at 55
Jan 30 Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 38
Feb 1 Foy Draper, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1936 WR 39.8s), dies in action as a USAF pilot at 31
Feb 2 Jack Burke Sr., American golfer (US Open 1920 runner-up; Senior PGA C'ship 1941), dies at 54
Feb 3 Alexander Goode, American US Navy chaplain and rabbi (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 31 [1]
Feb 3 Clark Poling, American US Army chaplain and Protestant minister (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 32 [1]
Feb 3 George Fox, American US Army chaplain and Methodist minister (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 42 [1]
Feb 3 John Washington, American US Army chaplain and Catholic priest (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 34 [1]
Feb 4 Frank Calder, British-Canadian 1st NHL president, dies at 65
Feb 5 Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
Feb 6 Hendrik Seyffardt, Dutch general who collaborated with the Nazi regime, assassinated by the Dutch resistance at 71
Feb 9 World War II: Dutch fascist official Hermannus Reydon and his wife are shot by resistance members, his wife dies immediately and he dies six months later
Feb 13 William Walraven, Dutch journalist and writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55
Feb 14 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert spaces, invariant theory, axiomatization of geometry, dies at 81
Feb 14 Dora Gerson, German-Jewish actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (Caravan of Death), dies in Auschwitz concentration camp at 43
Feb 15 William Victor Harris, American composer, dies at 73
Feb 17 Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer, dies at 54
Feb 17 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
Feb 18 Henri Polak, Dutch labor leader (General Diamond Workers' Union), journalist, and Social-Democrat politician (Member of Parliament), dies of pneumonia at 74
Feb 19 Lynne Overman, American actor (Reap the Wild Wind), dies from a heart attack at 55
Feb 22 Christoph Probst, German medical student and anti-Nazi political activist, member of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 23
Feb 22 Hans Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, founder of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 24
Feb 22 Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, member of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 21
Feb 24 Fred Tate, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Sussex CCC) and coach (Derbyshire CCC), dies at 75
Feb 26 Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist, and writer, dies of cancer at 73
Feb 26 Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official who developed the concentration camps, killed at 50 when his plane shot down
Feb 27 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
Mar 2 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
Mar 4 Nikolaos Politis, Greek foreign minister and diplomat (Greek representative League of Nations), dies at 71
Mar 9 Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner and anti-fascist, murdered in the gas chamber of Auschwitz extermination camp at 35
Mar 10 Lawrence Binyon, English poet (For the Fallen), dies at 73
Mar 10 Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (Worpswede artist colony), dies at 78
Mar 10 Tully Marshall, American actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
Mar 12 Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, dies at 73
Mar 13 J. P. Morgan, Jr. [John Pierpont Morgan, Jr], American financier and son of J.P. Morgan, Sr., (J.P. Morgan & Co.), dies of a stroke at 75
Mar 13 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
Mar 14 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Dutch poet, classicist, and mystic (Voices, Carmina), dies at 73
Mar 19 Frank Nitti [Francesco Nitto], Italian-American gangster, dies from self-inflicted gunshots at 57
Mar 19 Vicente Ripollés, Spanish composer, dies at 75
Mar 23 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
Mar 23 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
Mar 25 Marie Krogh, Danish physician (co-founder of Novo Nordisk), dies of breast cancer at 68
Mar 26 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer, dies at 73
Mar 26 Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world's 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, dies at 91
Mar 27 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, Russian test pilot (world speed record in BI-1 rocket plane), but killed in its crash at 35

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Mar 28 Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69

Mar 30 Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
Mar 30 Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
Apr 3 Conrad Veidt, German actor (Casablanca, Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies from a heart attack at 50
Apr 4 Hartzell "Tiny" Parham, American jazz pianist, theater organist, and bandleader, dies at 43
Apr 4 Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor and choreographer (Triadisches Ballett), dies at 54
Apr 4 Raoul Laparra, French composer, dies during a bombing raid in WWII at 66
Apr 5 Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), dies at 74
Apr 6 Jimmy Collins, American Baseball HOF 3rd baseman (World Series 1903 Boston Americans; NL HR leader 1898 Boston Beaneaters) and manager (Boston Americans 1901–06), dies at 73
Apr 7 Alexandre Millerand, French President (1920-24) and Prime Minister (1920), dies at 84
Apr 7 Jovan Dučić, Herzegovinian Serb poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
Apr 8 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed

Richard Sears (1861-1943)

Apr 8 American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1881-87), dies at 81

Apr 14 Asser B. Kleerekoper, Dutch journalist, translator, and politician (Second Chamber of Parliament- (SDAP), 1914-32), dies at 62
Apr 14 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, English organist, composer, and educator, dies at 63
Apr 15 Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist, dies at 61
Apr 15 Raffaele Casimiri, Italian composer, and musicologist dies at 62

Apr 18 Japanese World War II Japanese Imperial Navy Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the combined fleet who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, killed in action at 59 by a US ambush after the "Magic" code-breaking team intercepted and decoded his flight plan

Apr 19 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
Apr 19 Gustave Doret, Swiss composer, dies at 76
Apr 19 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
Apr 25 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
Apr 29 Joseph Achron, Lithuanian-American concert violinist and composer (Golem Suite), dies at 56
Apr 29 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, Swedish composer, dies at 68
Apr 29 Sidney Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies fighting during WWII at 20
Apr 30 Beatrice Potter Webb, British sociologist, economist (founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
Apr 30 Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
Apr 30 Leo Smit, Dutch composer, dies in Sobibór extermination camp at 42
Apr 30 Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, dies at 82
May 1 Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical Brunstad Christian Church, dies at 71
May 3 Leslie Heward, English composer, dies at 45
May 5 Andy Minder, American jockey (Kentucky Derby 1907), dies from a heart attack at 62
May 5 Gordon Hewart, British judge "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done" (Lord Chief Justice 1922-40), dies at 73

Mordecai Anielewicz (1919-1943)

May 8 Jewish commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, suspected to have committed suicide at 24 rather than surrender to Nazi troops that had surrounded his command bunker

May 10 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 10 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 10 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 11 Szmul Zygielbojm, Jewish-Polish socialist politician (Bund) and activist, commits suicide to protest Allied indifference to the Holocaust during WWII at 48
May 12 Albert Stoessel, American violinist, conductor, composer, and educator, dies of a heart attack on the podium at 48
May 14 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian international lawyer (1st Socialist to win Nobel Peace Prize 1913), dies at 89
May 16 Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
May 17 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
May 19 Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum, dies at 77
May 22 Helen Herron Taft, American First lady (1909-13) wife of President William Howard Taft, planted Washington's cherry trees, dies at 81
May 24 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
May 25 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, dies at 54
May 26 Edsel Ford, American President of Ford Motor Company (1919-1943) and son of Henry Ford, dies of stomach cancer aged 49
May 29 Hermann Hans Wetzler, German-American composer, dies at 72
Jun 1 Leslie Howard [Stainer], British actor (Gone With The Wind; Of Human Bondage), dies after Nazis shoot down his plane at 50
Jun 1 Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
Jun 2 Nile Kinnick Jr., American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1939; University of Iowa), dies during a WWII training flight at 24
Jun 3 Folkert Posthuma, Dutch Minister of Agriculture, assassinated at 69

Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)

Jun 6 Austrian immunologist and pathologist (Nobel 1930 for the discovery of different blood groups), dies at 74

Jun 8 (Wilford) "Min" Leibrook, American jazz tuba player and bassist (Paul Whiteman Orchestra), dies of meningitis at 40
Jun 11 Sam de Vries, Dutch actor (Boefje; De man zonder hart), murdered in gas chamber at Sobibór concentration camp at 50
Jun 13 Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
Jun 15 Cecil "Cec" Parkin, British cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), and author (Cricket Reminiscences: Humorous and Otherwise), dies at 57
Jun 26 Fritz Schmidt, German Commissioner-General for Political Affairs and Propaganda (Netherlands, 1940-43), commits suicide at 39
Jul 1 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
Jul 1 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
Jul 1 Johan Brouwer, Dutch writer, Hispanist, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, executed at 45
Jul 1 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 1 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
Jul 2 Caroline Yale, American educator who revolutionized the teaching of hearing-impaired students, dies at 84
Jul 4 Władysław Sikorski, Polish World War II general and Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1939-43), killed in a plane crash at 62
Jul 8 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator and statesman, dies at 69
Jul 8 Harry Oakes, Canadian-British prominent businessman in Bahamas, murdered under mysterious circumstances at 68
Jul 8 Jean Moulin, French hero of the Résistance during World War II, executed at 44
Jul 9 Clifford Whittingham Beers, American mental hygiene pioneer, dies at 67
Jul 10 Arthur Nevin, American composer, dies at 72
Jul 13 Kurt Huber, German college professor and member of anti-Nazi resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 50
Jul 14 Johannes "Frits" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor, dies at 74
Jul 17 Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
Jul 18 Harry Pace, American music label owner (Black Swan - 1st major label founded by a Black American), dies at 59
Jul 21 Charles Paddock, American 100m runner (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 42
Jul 23 Emanuel Querido, Dutch author and publisher (N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij), murdered in the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor at 71
Jul 27 Harold Austin, Barbadian cricketer and captain of 1923 West Indies team to England, dies at 66
Jul 27 Herbert Roper Barrett, British tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1909, 12, 13; Wimbledon singles 1908, 11 runner-up; Olympic gold indoor doubles 1908), dies at 69
Jul 30 Benjamin Dale, British composer (Before the Paling of the Stars; The Flowing Tide), and educator (Royal Academy), dies at 58
Jul 30 Owen Nares [Ramsay], British actor and manager (Maiden Erleigh), dies from a heart attack at 54
Jul 31 Hedley Verity, English cricket spin bowler (40 Tests, 144 wickets @ 24.37), dies in POW camp in Italy at 38
Aug 1 Ismar Elbogen, German-American rabbi and scholar (Encyclopedia Judaica), dies at 68
Aug 3 Edward "Corky" Cornelius, American jazz trumpeter (Benny Goodman; Gene Krupa), dies of kidney failure at 28
Aug 5 Adam Kuckhoff, German writer and resistance fighter, is executed during WWII at 55
Aug 6 Tom Garrett, Australian cricket all-rounder (19 Tests, TS 51no, 34 wickets; NSW CA), dies at 85
Aug 7 Gustav Schmidt, German army general, commits suicide to avoid capture by the Russian army at 49
Aug 10 C. Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 10 J. Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 10 J. Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
Aug 12 Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
Aug 14 Joe Kelley, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL stolen base leader 1896 Baltimore Orioles) and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Boston Doves), dies at 71
Aug 18 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general, dies at 78
Aug 18 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
Aug 21 (Abraham) A. Merritt, American magazine editor and sci-fi author (The Moon Pool; Burn, Witch, Burn!), dies from a heart attack at 59
Aug 21 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
Aug 23 Paul Zilcher, German pianist, composer, and piano teacher, dies at 88
Aug 24 Ernst Ottwalt [pen name for Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas], German writer and playwright, dies in a Soviet gulag at 41
Aug 24 Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist, dies from cardiac failure at 34
Aug 25 Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86
Aug 26 Ted Ray, British golfer (British Open 1912, US Open 1920), dies at 66
Aug 27 Otto Selz, German psychologist, dies at 62

Boris III (1894-1943)

Aug 28 Tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies of heart failure at 49; likely caused by poisoning but by whom remains a mystery

Aug 30 Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary in Brazil, dies at 52
Sep 1 Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
Sep 17 Dick Tyldesley, English cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 19 wickets, BB 3/50; Lancashire CCC), dies at 46
Sep 18 William S. Harley, American mechanical engineer and businessman (co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company), dies of heart failure at 62
Sep 23 Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks) and screenwriter, dies at 78
Sep 27 Waclaw Gieburowski, Polish composer, dies at 65
Sep 27 Willoughby Hamilton, Irish tennis, soccer player (Wimbledon 1890; Ireland 1 cap), dies at 78
Sep 28 Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (played in South Africa's 1st 3 tests), dies at 77
Sep 28 Fritzi Brunette, American actress, dies at 53
Sep 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State), dies at 79
Oct 1 Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32
Oct 1 Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27
Oct 1 Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26
Oct 1 Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed
Oct 1 Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22
Oct 1 Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
Oct 1 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
Oct 1 Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
Oct 1 Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
Oct 1 Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
Oct 1 John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
Oct 1 Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
Oct 1 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
Oct 1 Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27