(b. 1893) February 15 – Helmut Möckel, German youth leader, politician (automobile accident) (b. 1909) February 17 – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (b. 1914) February 18 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Soviet general (died of wounds) (b. 1906) February 19 John Basilone, American war hero (killed in action) (b. 1916) Heinrich Jasper, German politician (b. 1875) February 21 – Eric Liddell, British Olympic athlete (in internment camp) (b. 1902) February 22 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician (b. 1873) February 23 Serafino Mazzolini, Italian politician, lawyer and journalist (b. 1890) José María Moncada, 19th President of Nicaragua (b. 1870) Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1883) February 24 – Josef Mayr-Nusser, Italian Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1910) February 25 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, photographer (b. 1893) March March 1 Fritz Goerdeler, German resistance member (executed) (b. 1886) Lothar Sieber, German test pilot (killed in aviation accident) (b. 1922) March 2 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter (b. 1871) March 3 Gheorghe Avramescu, Romanian general (in custody) (b. 1884) Aleksandra Samusenko, Soviet WWII tank commander (died of wounds) (b. 1922) March 4 Charles W. Bryan, American politician (b. 1867) Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872) Mark Sandrich, American film director (b. 1900) March 5 Rupert Downes, Australian general (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. 1885) Albert Richards, British war artist (killed in action) (b. 1919) George Vasey, Australian general (killed in military aircraft accident) (b. 1895) Hasso von Boehmer, German lieutenant colonel, July 20 plotter (executed) (b. 1904) March 7 – Ralph Ignatowski, American WWII hero (killed in action) (b. 1926) March 8 – Sadasue Senda, Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, battle of iwo jima (killed in action) (b. 1892) March 12 – Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (executed) (b. 1888) March 14 Antônio Francisco Braga, Brazilian composer (b. 1868) Mary Helen Young, Scottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (born 1883) March 15 – Sava Caracaș, Romanian general (b. 1890) March 18 – William Grover-Williams, British/French racing driver, war hero (executed) (b. 1903) March 19 – Marcel Callo, French Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (in concentration camp) (b. 1921) March 20 Dorothy Campbell, Scottish golfer (b. 1883) Lord Alfred Douglas, English poet (b. 1870) Maria Lacerda de Moura, Brazilian feminist, anarchist, teacher, journalist and teacher (b. 1887) March 22 Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, Israeli assassin (executed) (b. 1922) Eliyahu Hakim, Israeli assassin (executed)