Bonhoeffer, German resistance fighter, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1901) April 24 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German SS Reichsphysician (suicide) (b. 1899) April 28 Executed: Hermann Fegelein, German SS general (b. 1906) Benito Mussolini, Italian politician, journalist, 27th Prime Minister of Italy and Duce of Fascism (b. 1883) Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912) Nicola Bombacci, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1879) Roberto Farinacci, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1892) Alessandro Pavolini, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1903) April 29 – Achille Starace, Italian Fascist politician (executed) (b. 1889) April 30 Luisa Ferida, Italian actress (executed) (b. 1914) Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Germany (suicide) (b. 1889) Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (suicide) (b. 1912) May May 1 Joseph Goebbels, Chancellor of Germany for 1 day and Reich Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897) Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (suicide) (b. 1901) May 2 Martin Bormann, Nazi Party leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler (presumed suicide) (b. 1900) Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (suicide) (b. 1895) Hans Krebs, German general (suicide) (b. 1898) Prince Waldemar of Prussia (haemophilia) (b. 1889) May 3 – Mario Blasich, Italian physician, politician (b. 1878) May 4 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880) May 6 – Xhem Hasa, Albanian nationalist (b. 1908) May 7 – Vladimir Boyarsky, Soviet army officer (b. 1901) May 8 Francis Bruguière, American photographer (b. 1875) Julius Hirsch, German footballer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1892) Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. 1900) Bernhard Rust, education minister of Nazi Germany (presumed suicide) (b. 1883) Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (suicide) (b. 1898) May 9 – Gustav Becking, German musicologist (b. 1894) May 10 – Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German Nazi leader (suicide) (b. 1898) May 11 – Kiyoshi Ogawa, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1922) May 14 Joseph Barthélemy, French jurist, politician and journalist (b. 1874) Heber J. Grant, 7th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856) May 15 Kenneth J. Alford, British soldier and composer (b. 1881) Charles Williams, British author (b. 1886) May 16 Shintarō Hashimoto, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1892) Kaju Sugiura, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1896) May 18 – William Joseph Simmons, American founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (b. 1880) May 19 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader and general (suicide) (b. 1899) May 21 –