Kenneth Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1863) September 14 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899) September 14 – Raoul Villain, French assassin (b. 1885) September 16 – Karl Buresch, 9th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1878) September 17 – Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist (Le Chatelier's principle) (b. 1850) September 19 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860) September 21 Amalia Abad Casasempere, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr (executed) (b. 1897) Antoine Meillet, French linguist (b. 1866) September 28 – William Sims, American admiral (b. 1858) September 30 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (b. 1851) October October 2 – Juho Sunila, 2-time Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1875) October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869) October 6 – Gyula Gömbös, 30th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886) October 8 Cheiro, Irish astrologer (b. 1866) William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851) October 12 – Shuja ul-Mulk, Indian ruler (b. 1881) October 16 – Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859) October 19 – Lu Xun, leading figure of modern Chinese literature (b. 1881) October 20 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (b. 1866) October 26 – Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (b. 1884) October 29 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer (b. 1875) November November 2 – Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (b. 1874) November 7 Walter L. Finn, American physician and politician (b. 1875) Charles "Chic" Sale, American vaudevillian (b. 1885) November 11 – Sir Edward German, English composer (b. 1862) November 17 John Bowers, American actor (b. 1885) Alexandros Papanastasiou, 2-time prime minister of Greece (b. 1876) November 20 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896) José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish fascist politician (b. 1903) November 25 – Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian biblical scholar, teacher (b. 1844) November 27 – Edward Bach, British physician, homeopath and bacteriologist (b. 1886) December December 7 – Jean Mermoz, French aviator (b. 1901) December 9 Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the autogyro (b. 1895) Arvid Lindman, 12th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1862) Lottie Pickford, Canadian actress (b. 1895) December 10 Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857) Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) December 18 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish engineer, mathematician (b. 1852) December 23 – William Henry Harrison, English cricketer (b. 1866) December 24 – Irene Fenwick, American actress