Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1890) Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861) David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888) September 28 – Josef Bürckel, German Nazi gauleiter (b. 1895) September 29 Otto Herfurth, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1893) Wilhelm Leuschner German politician and resistance fighter (b. 1890) Joachim Meichssner, German resistance fighter (b. 1906) Joachim Sadrozinski, German resistance fighter (b. 1907) October October 1 Sir William Mulock, Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman (b. 1843) Rudolf Schmundt, German general (b. 1896) October 2 Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1898) Julián Felipe, Filipino musician and bandleader (b. 1861) Maeda Toshisada, Japanese politician (b. 1874) October 4 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873) October 5 – Prince Gustav of Denmark (b. 1887) October 8 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892) October 9 Kitty Marion, German-born actress and women's rights activist in England and the United States (b. 1871) Stefanina Moro, Italian resistance member (b. 1927) October 12 Ramón Castillo, Argentinian politician, 25th President of Argentina (b. 1873) Carl Langbehn, German resistance member (b. 1901) Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German resistance member (b. 1886) October 13 Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, German resistance member (b. 1907) Roland von Hößlin, German resistance member (b. 1915) October 14 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891) October 17 – Anton Hafner, German aviator (b. 1918) October 18 Alexander, Prince of Erbach-Schönberg (b. 1872) Josef Maria Eder, Austrian chemist (b. 1855) October 19 Isadore Bernstein, American screenwriter (b. 1876) Deneys Reitz, South African soldier and diplomat (b. 1882) October 20 Eduard Brücklmeier, German diplomat and resistance member (b. 1903) Hermann Maaß, German politician and resistance member (b. 1897) Adolf Reichwein, German politician and resistance member (b. 1898) October 21 Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (b. 1886) Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter (b. 1862) October 22 – Richard Bennett, American actor (b. 1870) October 23 – Charles Glover Barkla, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) October 24 Louis Renault, French industrialist, founder of Renault (b. 1877) Karl Freiherr von Thüngen, German general and resistance member (executed) (b. 1893) October 25 Shōji Nishimura, Japanese vice admiral (b. 1889) José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, Peruvian historian, writer and politician, 84th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1885) Yukio Seki, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1921) October 26 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, youngest and last