unionist and 66th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1869) Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875) March 24 Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892) Carl Schuhmann, German athlete (b. 1869) Barbu Știrbey, 30th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1872) March 26 – Ezequiel Fernández, acting President of Panama (b. 1886) March 29 – László Endre, Hungarian politician (b. 1895) March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British field marshal (b. 1886) April April 1 Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882) Edward Sheldon, American playwright (b. 1886) April 2 – Kate Bruce, American silent screen actress (b. 1858) April 3 Alf Common, English footballer (b. 1880) Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1887) April 5 Ion Boițeanu, Romanian general (b. 1885) Vincent Youmans, American composer (b. 1898) April 6 Chief Thunderbird, Native American actor (b. 1866) James Young Deer, Native American film producer (b. 1876) April 7 – Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1871) April 8 Bo Gu, 3rd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (accident) (b. 1907) Patriarch Eulogius (b. 1868) April 13 – William Henry Bell, English-born South African composer, conductor and lecturer. April 14 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy Captain, 25th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1881) April 15 Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães (b. 1858) C. W. A. Scott, English aviator (b. 1903) April 17 Guido Calza, Italian archaeologist (b. 1888) Juan Bautista Sacasa, 20th President of Nicaragua (b. 1874) April 20 – Mae Busch, American actress (b. 1891) April 21 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (b. 1883) April 22 Lionel Atwill, British actor (b. 1885) Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872) April 28 – Robert Bartlett, American explorer, and navigator (b. 1875) April 30 – Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist, paleontologist (b. 1861) May May 1 Bill Johnston, American tennis champion (b. 1894) Israfil Mammadov, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1919) May 9 – Léon Guillet, French metallurgist (b. 1873) May 10 – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian diplomat (b. 1871) May 11 – Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. 1884) May 13 – Alexei Nikolaevich Bach, Soviet biochemist, revolutionary leader (b. 1857) May 16 Bruno Tesch, German chemist, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1890) Karl Weinbacher, German manager, war criminal (executed) (b. 1898) May 19 Francesco Camero Medici, Italian diplomat (b. 1886) Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo, Spanish lawyer,