(b. 1868) March 26 – Gustav Hinrichs, German-born American conductor and composer (b. 1850) March 27 Jannion Steele Elliott, British ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1871) John W. Wilcox Jr., American admiral (lost overboard) (b. 1882) Julio González, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1876) March 28 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910) April April 2 – Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862) April 4 James Bede, American politician (b. 1856) Jan Daszewski, Polish fighter pilot (b. 1916) April 6 – Isidro Michel López, Mexican military officer, leader of the Mexican Revolution (b. 1870) April 7 – Anandshankar Dhruv, Indian scholar, writer, educationist and editor (b. 1869) April 11 – Frederick Hobbs, New Zealand-born singer and actor (b. 1874) April 12 – Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, British soldier and politician (b. 1858) April 13 Julia Danzas, Soviet and Russian Roman Catholic religious leader and blessed (b. 1879) Sir James Fergusson, British admiral (b. 1881) April 15 Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880) Joshua Pim, Irish tennis player (b. 1869) April 16 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1878) April 17 Renward Brandstetter, Swiss philologist and linguist (b. 1860) Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, American botanist (b. 1870) Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) April 18 Grażyna Chrostowska, Polish poet and activist (b. 1921) Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, socialite and sculptor (b. 1875) April 21 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect (b. 1858) April 23 – Olga Benário Prestes, German-born Brazilian militant (b. 1908) April 24 Camille du Gast, French pioneer (b. 1868) Deenanath Mangeshkar, Indian singer and composer (b. 1900) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (b. 1874) April 25 – Zygmunt Kisielewski, Polish writer (b. 1882) April 30 – Lilian Whiting, American writer and editor (b. 1847) May May 1 – José Abad Santos, Filipino chief justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1886) May 3 – Thorvald Stauning, 9th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873) May 4 – Józef Czempiel, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1883) May 5 – Habib Pacha Es-Saad, 3rd Prime Minister and 2nd President of Lebanon (b. 1867) May 7 – Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor (b. 1863) May 9 – Graham McNamee, American radio announcer (b. 1888) May 10 – Joe Weber, American vaudevillian (b. 1867) May 11 – Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1886) May