1881) June 30 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874) July July 1 – Totius, Afrikaans poet (b. 1877) July 9 – Annie Kenney, British working-class suffragette (b. 1879) July 11 – Oliver Campbell, American tennis player (b. 1871) July 12 – Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885) July 15 – John Christie, English serial killer (b. 1899) (hanged) July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870) July 17 – Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872) July 20 – Dumarsais Estimé, 30th President of Haiti (b. 1900) July 26 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1883) July 29 – Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877) July 31 – Robert A. Taft, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889) August August 1 – Jānis Mendriks, Soviet Roman Catholic priest (b. 1907) August 11 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892) August 15 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875) August 22 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916) August 30 Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881) Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist (b. 1884) September September 2 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883) September 5 Richard Walther Darré, Nazi SS General (b. 1895) Francis Ford, American actor and director (b. 1881) Constantin Levaditi, Romanian physician and microbiologist (b. 1874) September 7 – Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1875) September 8 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890) September 12 Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884) Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879) September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868) September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (b. 1887) September 24 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (born 1878) September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895) September 27 – Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi senior official, one of only three acquitted at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1900) September 28 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889) September 30 Robert Mawdesley, British stage and radio actor (b. 1900) Lewis Fry Richardson, English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist (b. 1881) October October 3 – Sir Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887) October 6 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888) October 8 Nigel Bruce, British character actor (b. 1895) Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto