Deaths 201 - 257 of 257
- Oct 1 Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
- Oct 1 Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
- Oct 1 Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
- Oct 1 Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
- Oct 1 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
- Oct 2 R. Nathaniel Dett, Canadian-American pianist, organist, choral director, and composer (In The Bottoms), dies of a heart attack while on tour with the USO at 60
- Oct 4 Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence, dies at 37
- Oct 4 Richard T. Ely, American economist and author (Ground under our feet), dies at 89
- Oct 5 Leon Roppolo, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 41
- Oct 6 Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort & catcher Walker, dies
- Oct 7 Eugeniusz Bodo [Bohdan Eugène Junod], Polish film director, producer and comedic actor, dies in the Gulag at 43
- Oct 7 Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, English poet and author (The Well of Loneliness), dies of cancer at 63
- Oct 9 Gerard Wilhelm Kernkamp, Dutch historian and editor (Groene Amsterdammer/Green Amsterdam), dies at 78
- Oct 9 Jan Dieters, Dutch politician, resistance fighter, and a leading member of Communist Party of the Netherlands, executed by the Nazis at 42
- Oct 9 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
- Oct 9 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78
- Oct 10 Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish artist gassed at Auschwitz aged 26
- Oct 14 Jimmy Matthews, Australian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 16 wickets; Victoria; only player to take 2 hat-tricks in same Test 1912), dies at 59
- Oct 17 Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
- Oct 18 A. M. de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak), dies at 55
- Oct 18 Benedictus H. Danser, Dutch taxonomist and botanist, dies at 52
- Oct 21 Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), dies at 66
- Oct 22 Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian composer, dies at 80
- Oct 24 Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (Regards et jeux dans l'espace), dies at 31
- Oct 25 H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed
- Oct 26 Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British archaeologist, dies at 80
- Oct 27 Béla Reinitz, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
- Oct 27 Isidor Traube, German chemist who founded capillary chemistry and researched liquids (osmosis, surface tension), dies at 83
- Oct 31 Max Reinhardt [Goldmann], Austrian theatrical director (Oedipus Rex) and founder of the Salzburg Festival, dies at 70
- Nov 5 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies at 62
- Nov 7 Dwight Frye, American actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein), dies from a heart attack at 44
- Nov 9 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman and theologian, dies at 67
- Nov 16 Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
- Nov 17 Paul Charles Rene Landormy, French musicologist, music critic, and composer, dies at 74
- Nov 19 André Antoine, French actor and stage manager (founded Théâtre-Libre), dies at 85
Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)
Nov 22 American lyricist, usually to music of Richard Rodgers ("I Could Write A Book"; "My Funny Valentine"), dies of pneumonia from exposure after drinking heavily in NYC at 48
- Nov 22 Pietro Alessandro Yon, Italian organist and composer, dies at 57
- Nov 23 Ernie Jones, Australian cricket fast bowler (19 Tests, 64 wickets; first bowler to be called for throwing in a Test), dies at 74
- Nov 24 Doris Miller, American US Navy cook and Pearl Harbor hero (Navy Cross), killed in action in Battle of the Gilbert Islands at 24 [1]
- Nov 24 Martin Raschke, German author and publisher dies at 38
- Nov 24 Reina Prinsen Geerligs, Dutch aspiring poet who became an anti-fascist resistance fighter, murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at 22
- Nov 26 Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
- Nov 27 Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan, killed by a German bomb at 27
- Nov 29 Bertha Knight Landes, American politician (1st female mayor of any major US city - Mayor of Seattle 1926-28), dies at 75
- Dec 1 Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince, son of King Mongkut and brother of King Chulalongkorn and historian, dies at 81
- Dec 2 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet, dramatist and novelist (The Defeat), dies at 41
- Dec 4 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist, dies at 46
- Dec 6 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69
- Dec 6 Hermann Löhr, British composer, dies at 72
- Dec 14 John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and nutritionist, inspired flaked cereal industry, dies at 91
Fats Waller (1904-1943)
Dec 15 American jazz organist, piano player, singer and composer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"; "Honeysuckle Rose"; "Hot Chocolate"), dies of pneumonia at 39 [1]
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Dec 22 English children's author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), dies at 77
- Dec 23 Theo Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy), dies at 64
- Dec 25 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian contralto singer, dies at 62
- Dec 25 Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82
- Dec 29 William Henry Singer, American painter and collector (Singer Museum, Laren), dies at 75
- Dec 30 Hobart Bosworth, American actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
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