August 28 – William Bowie, American geodetic engineer (b. 1872) August 30 Sir Thomas Snow, British army general (b. 1858) J. J. Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) August 31 – Ernest Lundeen, American lawyer, politician (b. 1878) September September 4 – George William de Carteret, Jerseiaise author (b. 1869) September 5 – Charles de Broqueville, 20th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1860) September 7 – José Félix Estigarribia, 34th President of Paraguay (b. 1888) September 9 - Percy Abbott, Australian politician (b. 1869) September 10 – Nikola Ivanov, Bulgarian general (b. 1861) September 20 - E. Rosa Sawtell, New Zealand artist (b. 1865) September 23 Robert Hichens, RMS Titanic quartermaster, man at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg (b. 1882) Hale Holden, American president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (1914–1918, 1920–1929) (b. 1869) September 25 – Marguerite Clark, American stage and silent film actress (b. 1883) September 26 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic, suicide (b. 1892) September 27 Julián Besteiro, Spanish socialist politician (b. 1870) Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857) October October 5 Ballington Booth, American co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857) Lincoln Loy McCandless, Hawaiian politician, cattle rancher (b. 1859) Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899) October 6 – Michitarō Komatsubara, Japanese general (b. 1885) October 8 Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (b. 1862) Sir Henry Head, English neurologist (b. 1861) October 9 – Sir Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865) October 10 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876) October 12 – Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880) October 15 – Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (executed) (b. 1882) October 17 – George Davis, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1870) October 20 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885) October 22 – Sir Charles Harington, British general (b. 1872) November November 3 – Manuel Azaña, 55th Prime Minister of Spain, 2nd President of Spain (b. 1880) November 5 – Otto Plath, American father of poet Sylvia Plath, entomologist (b. 1885) November 9 Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869) John Henry Kirby, American businessman, Texas legislator (b. 1860) November 11 – Vladimir Vinnichevsky, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1923) November 17 Eric Gill, English sculptor, lettering designer and writer (b. 1882) Raymond Pearl, American