– Sir Seymour Hicks, British actor (b. 1871) April 7 – Mikhail Denisenko, Soviet general (b. 1899) April 8 – Santiago Alba y Bonifaz, Spanish lawyer, politician (b. 1872) April 13 – Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Mexican poet, literary critic, editor and teacher (b. 1899) April 15 – Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885) April 16 – Joseph Augustine Cushman, American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist (b. 1881) April 18 – Will Hay, British comic actor (b. 1888) April 19 Guillermo Buitrago, Colombian composer (b. 1920) Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) April 22 – Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874) April 27 – Patrick Lyons, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, reverend (b. 1875) April 28 Ponciano Bernardo, Filipino engineer, politician (b. 1905) Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888) Sir Robert Robertson, British chemist (b. 1869) Hla Thaung, Burmese battalion leader Sir Fabian Ware, British founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (b. 1869) April 29 Johann Jakob Hess, Swiss Egyptologist, Assyriologist (b. 1866) Kaarle Knuutila, Finnish farmer, politician (b. 1868) May May 1 Josep Maria Jujol, Andorran architect (b. 1879) Gheorghe Petrașcu, Romanian painter (b. 1872) May 4 – Valerio Bacigalupo, Italian goalkeeper (b. 1924) May 5 – Hideo Nagata, Japanese poet, playwright (b. 1885) May 6 Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist, politician (b. 1871) Kunihiko Hashimoto, Japanese composer (b. 1904) Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862) May 9 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870) May 10 – Emilio de Gogorza, American baritone (b. 1872) May 13 – Sawnie R. Aldredge, American attorney, judge (b. 1890) May 19 – Paul Schultze-Naumburg, German architect, painter, publicist and politician (b. 1869) May 20 – Damaskinos of Athens, Archbishop of Athens, 57th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891) May 21 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906) May 22 Sir Douglas Alexander, 1st Baronet, British-born Canadian industrialist (b. 1864) James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (b. 1892) Hans Pfitzner, German composer (b. 1869) May 23 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (b. 1872) May 27 – Robert Ripley, American creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890) May 30 – Igor Belkovich, Soviet astronomer (b. 1904) Date unknown – Abd Allah Siraj, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. c. 1876) June June 3 – Carlo Angela, Italian doctor (b. 1875) June 8 Naguib el-Rihani, Egyptian actor (b. 1889) Virgilia, Mother