Estonia (b. 1875) February 7 – Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (died of wounds) (b. 1882) February 9 – Aaron S. Watkins, American temperance movement leader (b. 1863) February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance (b. 1877) February 13 – Blind Boy Fuller, African-American blues musician (b. 1904) February 21 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891) February 24 – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German submarine commander (b. 1886) February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895) February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886) March March 4 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, politician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore) (b. 1867) March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876) March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864) March 17 – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (killed in action) (b. 1912) March 18 – Alexander Pfänder, German philosopher (b. 1870) March 28 Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (b. 1887) Virginia Woolf, English novelist (suicide) (b. 1882) March 30 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (b. 1859) April April 3 – Pál Teleki, 2-time Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879) April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (b. 1876) April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863) April 16 – Josiah Stamp, British baron, banker, civil servant, industrialist, economist and statistician (enemy action) (b.1880) April 17 – Hans Driesch, German biologist, philosopher (b. 1867) April 24 – King Sisowath Monivong of Cambodia (b. 1875) April 30 – Edwin S. Porter, American film director (b. 1870) May May 6 – Shūzō Kuki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1888) May 7 – James George Frazer, Scottish social anthropologist (b. 1854) May 11 – Peggy Shannon, American actress (b. 1910) May 12 – Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (b. 1892) May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary, heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887) May 24 – Lancelot Holland, British admiral (died in action) (b. 1887) May 27 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1889) May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, King of Siam (b. 1893) June June 1 Hans Berger, German neurologist (b. 1873) Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892) Sir Hugh Walpole, New Zealand-born British novelist (b. 1884) June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American