Deaths Date 1944 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Sep 18 Robert Cole, US army Lt, Colonel shot by a sniper in battle at Best, Netherlands at 29
Sep 19 David Lord, British RAF pilot (Victoria Cross), dies in the Battle of Arnhem at 30

Guy Gibson (1918-1944)

Sep 19 British aviator who led the Dambusters Raid (Victoria Cross), killed in action at 26

Sep 19 Hilaro Barlow, British colonel, dies during the Battle of Arnhem at 37
Sep 20 John Grayburn, British soldier who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the defence of Arnhem bridge, dies during the battle at 26
Sep 22 "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
Sep 23 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Prime Minister (1933-39) is buried
Sep 25 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
Sep 25 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
Sep 26 Ernst Isler, Swiss organist and critic, dies at 64
Sep 27 Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), dies at 53
Sep 27 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor (Seated Woman), dies in car crash at 82
Sep 27 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer and chemist, dies at 81
Oct 2 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
Oct 4 Alfred "Al" Smith, American politician, 4 time Governor of New York (1919-20 and 1923-28), and 1st Roman Catholic presidential candidate (D, 1928), dies at 70
Oct 7 Helmut Lent, German night-fighter ace in World War II, dies at 26
Oct 8 Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician (1940 republican nominee for President), dies at 52
Oct 12 Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi, dies at 42

Oct 14 German World War II Field Marshal (North African campaign, Battle of Normandy) known as the Desert Fox, commits suicide at by taking a cyanide pill at 52 after being implicated in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler

Oct 15 Philip Mechanicus, Dutch journalist, executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at 55
Oct 16 Eric Westberg, Swedish composer, dies at 52
Oct 16 John Eigenhuis, Dutch writer (The Dike), dies at 78
Oct 17 Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer, murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at 45 (b. 1899)
Oct 18 Orville "Hoppy" Jones, American bass singer and cellist (The Ink Spots - "If I Didn't Care"), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 39
Oct 18 Viktor Ullmann, Austrian pianist, conductor, and composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), murdered in gas chamber of Auschwitz concentration camp at 46
Oct 20 Gabriel Grovlez, French pianist, conductor (Opéra de Paris, 1914-34), and composer (L'Almanach aux images), dies at 65
Oct 21 Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
Oct 23 Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), dies at 67
Oct 23 Hana Brady, Jewish Czech Holocaust victim (Hanna's Suitcase), dies at 13
Oct 24 Lauri Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54

Louis Renault (1877-1944)

Oct 24 French automobile manufacturer (Renault Motor Company), dies at 67 (b. 1877)

Oct 25 Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed
Oct 26 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
Oct 26 William Temple, English Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 63
Oct 27 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies
Oct 28 Helen Magill White, American educator and 1st woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S., dies at 90
Oct 28 Iman Jacob van den Bosch, Dutch WWII resistance fighter, shot and executed at Westerbork Transit camp at 53
Oct 30 Paul Ladmirault, French composer, dies at 66
Nov 2 Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
Nov 3 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
Nov 5 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), dies at 71
Nov 6 Boy Ecury [Segundo Jorge Adelberto Ecury], Dutch Resistance fighter in World War II, executed by a German firing squad at 22
Nov 6 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
Nov 6 Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, Anglo-Irish politician, British prefect (Middle-East), assassinated by Jewish terrorists at 64
Nov 7 Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, hanged in Tokyo at 49
Nov 8 Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born fighter pilot ace (258 aerial victories for Luftwaffe), dies in a plane crash at 23
Nov 9 Frank Marshall, American chess player (US Champion 1909-36), dies at 67
Nov 11 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch researcher and co-discoverer of vitamin B1 (thiamine), dies at 79
Nov 12 Edgar Stillman Kelley, American composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
Nov 12 George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
Nov 12 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician, journal editor (Mathematische Annalen, 1906-38) and university professor, dies in Theresienstadt concentration camp at 68
Nov 12 Roy Agnew, Australian composer (Sonata Ballade), dies at 51
Nov 13 Paul Graener, German Romantic composer, dies at 72
Nov 13 Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (21st Premier of the Republic of China 1932-35), dies at61
Nov 14 Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, dies at 71
Nov 15 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
Nov 16 Charles Kelleway, Australian cricket all-rounder (26 Tests, 3 x 100s, 52 wickets, 24 catches), dies at 58
Nov 17 Archie MacLaren, English cricket batsman and captain (35 Tests; 424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895), dies at 72
Nov 17 Johan Hermanus Doorn, Dutch journalist and resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper), dies at 34
Nov 20 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
Nov 22 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist, cosmologist and mathematician (stars), dies at 61
Nov 22 George Clausen, English painter, dies at 92
Nov 24 EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies
Nov 24 Václav Štěpán, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 54

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866-1944)

Nov 25 American federal judge (1905-22), Baseball HOF executive and 1st MLB Commissioner (1920-44), dies at 78

Nov 27 Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
Nov 28 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
Nov 28 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25
Nov 28 Lode Zielens, Flemish author and journalist (Obscure Blood), dies at 43

Albert B. Fall (1861-1944)

Nov 30 American Senator (R-New Mexico 1912-21) and US Secretary of the Interior (1921-23), convicted for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal, dies at 83

Nov 30 Antoine Mariotte, French composer (Paysage maritime), dies at 68
Nov 30 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), dies at 79
Dec 2 Eiji Sawamura, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (first no-hitter in Japanese pro baseball 1936), dies in battle when his ship torpedoed, at 27
Dec 2 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist (Futurism e Futurista), dies of cardiac arrest at 67
Dec 3 Andrew, Prince of Greece and Denmark, dies at 62
Dec 3 Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75
Dec 4 Roger Bresnahan, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (World Series 1905 NY Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; first shin guards and batting helmet), dies at 65
Dec 9 Laird Cregar, American actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
Dec 10 John Brunt, English soldier and Victoria Cross holder, dies at 22
Dec 10 Johnny Marvin, American jazz, pop, and country ukulele player, singer, and vaudevillian, dies of dengue fever at 47
Dec 10 Paul Otlet, Belgian author, lawyer and peace activist (created the Universal Decimal Classification scheme), dies at 76
Dec 13 Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (Joe Palooka; Mexican Spitfire), intentionally overdoses on barbiturate Seconal at 34
Dec 13 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78

Glenn Miller (1904-1944)

Dec 15 American bandleader and jazz composer (Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"; "Moonlight Serenade"; "String Of Pearls"), dies in a suspected plane crash over the English Channel, while serving in the US Army,at 40

Dec 16 Don Meyer Basketball coach Northern State, Lipscomb, and Hamline
Dec 16 Elisabeth ten Boom, Dutch woman portrayed in "The Hiding Place" dies at Ravensbrück concentration camp at 59
Dec 16 Philip Guedalla, English barrister and historian, dies at 55
Dec 17 Pieter A. Roodenburgh, student and resistance fighter, dies at 26
Dec 19 Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
Dec 20 Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
Dec 20 JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at unknown age
Dec 22 Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60
Dec 23 Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (Gibson Girl), dies at 77
Dec 24 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, German violinist, conductor, composer (Max und Moritz) and pedagogue, dies at 66