Russian-born Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1869) Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887) April 27 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865) April 29 – Manuel Portela Valladares, Spanish political figure (b. 1868) April 30 – Shigenori Kuroda, Japanese general (b. 1887) May May 2 Lagertha Broch, Norwegian illustrator (b. 1864) Matrona Nikonova, Soviet Orthodox nun and saint (b. 1881) May 3 – Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo, Uruguayan politician (b. 1879) May 5 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer (b. 1891) May 6 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870) May 7 – Juan Bautista Pérez, Venezuelan lawyer, magistrate and politician, 43rd President of Venezuela (b. 1869) May 8 – William Fox, Austro-Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1879) May 9 – Canada Lee, American actor (b. 1907) May 10 Clark L. Hull, American psychologist (b. 1884) Gino Boccasile, Italian illustrator (b. 1901) May 11 – Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer (b. 1864) May 15 Albert Bassermann, German actor (b. 1867) Tadeusz Breyer, Polish sculptor (b. 1874) Italo Montemezzi, Italian composer (b. 1875) May 16 – Antonio Correa Cotto, Puerto Rican outlaw (b. 1926) May 18 – Masakazu Nakai, Japanese aesthetician (b. 1900) May 19 Luigi Fabris, Italian sculptor (b. 1883) Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Indian singer (b. 1878) May 21 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913) May 22 – Peter Ermakov, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1884) May 23 – Georg Schumann, German composer (b. 1866) May 29 – Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, Ukrainian army officer (b. 1878) June June 1 John Dewey, American philosopher (b. 1859) Malcolm St. Clair, American filmmaker (b. 1897) June 6 – Thomas Walsh, American Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend (b. 1873) June 8 – Sergey Merkurov, Soviet sculptor (b. 1881) June 9 Félix Pérez Cardozo, Paraguayan musician (b. 1908) Luigi Puccianti, Italian physicist (b. 1875) June 10 Hilda Hongell, Finnish architect (b. 1867) Frances Theodora Parsons, American naturalist (b. 1861) June 12 Oleksiy Bazyuk, Bosnian Greek-Catholic hierarch (b. 1873) Genovevo de la O, Mexican revolutionary leader (b. 1876) Michael von Faulhaber, German Cardinal Archbishop of Munich (b. 1869) June 13 – Emma Eames, American soprano (b. 1865) June 14 – Felix Calonder, Swiss politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1863) June 15 Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist (b. 1872) Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville), Polish-born British SOE operative during World War II (b. 1908) June 17 – Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer (b. 1914) June 18 –