religious leader, saint (b. 1870) August 31 – Gustav Bachmann, German naval officer, admiral (b. 1860) September September 1 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. c.1880) September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist artist (b. 1877) September 6 – Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (b. 1863) September 7 Géza Grünwald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910) Karlrobert Kreiten, German pianist (executed) (b. 1916) September 8 – Julius Fučík, Czech resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1903) September 9 Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (killed in action) (b. 1888) Salvatore John Cavallaro, American naval officer (killed in action) (b. 1920) Federico Martinengo, Italian pilot (killed in action) (b. 1899) September 13 David Bacon, American film actor (b. 1914) Ugo Cavallero, General of the Italian Army (suicide) (b. 1880) September 17 – (killed in Ponary massacre) Kazimierz Pelczar, Polish oncologist, academic (b. 1894) Mieczysław Witold Gutkowski, Polish lawyer (b. 1893) September 19 – Germaine Cernay, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1900) September 23 Elinor Glyn, British writer, critic (b. 1864) Ernst Trygger, Swedish professor, politician and 19th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1857) September 26 - Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926) September 28 Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913) Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (b. 1930) September 27 – Willoughby Hamilton, Irish tennis player (b. 1864) September 29 – Mariano Goybet, French army general (b. 1861) September 30 Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Norwegian businessman, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1870) Adolf Paul, Swedish novelist, playwright (b. 1863) October October 2 Carlos Blanco Galindo, 32nd President of Bolivia (b. 1882) Muhamed Hadžiefendić, Yugoslav army officer (killed by partisans) (b. 1898) October 4 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish general (murdered) (b. 1906) October 5 – Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1902) October 6 – Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, Hungarian adventurer (b. 1879) October 7 – Prince Christoph of Hesse (aviation accident) (b. 1901) October 8 Marianne Golz, Austrian-born opera singer, World War II resistance member (executed) (b. 1895) Wilhelm Hegeler, German novelist (b. 1870) October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) October 12 – Max Wertheimer, Austro-Hungarian psychologist (b. 1880) October 14 Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1910) Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1916) Johann Niemann, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1913) October 15 – William Penhallow Henderson, American painter, architect and furniture designer (b. 1877) October 18 – Margaret Bartholomew, American Civil