1876) June 13 – George Fitzmaurice, American director (b. 1885) June 12 - William Lashly, English sailor (b. 1867) June 14 – Henry W. Antheil Jr., American diplomat (b. 1912) June 17 – Sir Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) June 19 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900) June 20 – Charley Chase, American comedian (b. 1893) June 21 Smedley Butler, U.S. general (b. 1881) Janusz Kusociński, Polish athlete (killed in action) (b. 1907) John T. Thompson, United States Army officer, inventor of the Thompson gun (b. 1860) Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868) June 22 Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright (b. 1890) Wladimir Köppen, Russian-born German geographer and climatologist (b. 1846) June 15 – J. B. Johnson, American attorney and politician (b. 1868) June 28 – Italo Balbo, Italian Fascist leader (b. 1896) June 29 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879) July July 1 – Ben Turpin, American actor, comedian (b. 1869) July 9 – Józef Biniszkiewicz, Silesian politician (b. 1875) July 10 – Pietro Frugoni, Italian general (b. 1851) July 15 – Robert Wadlow, American citizen, tallest man ever (infection) (b. 1918) July 28 – David W. Taylor, American naval architect (b. 1864) July 30 – Spencer S. Wood, United States Navy Rear Admiral (b. 1861) August August 3 Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Russian Zionist philosopher and intellectual (b. 1880) Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Indian royal, Maharajah of Mysore (b. 1884) August 4 – Joaquina Maria Mercedes Barcelo Pages, Filipino Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1857) August 5 – Frederick Cook, American explorer (b. 1865) August 8 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1892) August 13 James Fairbairn, Australian pastoralist, aviator and politician (b. 1897) Sir Henry Gullett, Australian politician (b. 1878) Geoffrey Street, Australian politician (b. 1894) Sir Brudenell White, Australian general (b. 1876) August 16 – Henri Desgrange, French racing cyclist and founder of the Tour de France (b. 1865) August 18 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b. 1875) August 21 – Leon Trotsky, Russian communist revolutionary (assassinated) (b. 1879) August 22 Sir Oliver Lodge, British physicist (b. 1851) Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta, 23rd Governor of New South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1861) Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist, naturalist (b. 1860) August 24 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German technician and inventor (b. 1860)