Lady of the United States (b. 1861) May 24 – Johannes Orasmaa, Estonian army general (in labour camp) (b. 1890) May 25 – Ali Rikabi, 1st Prime Minister of Syria, 2-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1864) May 26 – Edsel Ford, American businessman, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1893) May 27 – Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878) May 29 – Yasuyo Yamasaki, Imperial Japanese Army officer (killed in action) (b. 1891) May 31 Prince Georg of Bavaria, Catholic priest (b. 1880) Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo official (killed by partisans) June June 1 István Bárczy, Hungarian politician (b. 1866) Leslie Howard, British actor (aircraft shot down) (b. 1893) June 2 – Nile Kinnick, American athlete, Heisman Trophy winner (died on active service in aviation accident) (b. 1918) June 3 – Osgood Hanbury, British pilot (killed on active service) (b. 1917) June 4 Francesco Pianzola, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1881) Kermit Roosevelt, American explorer, author (suicide) (b. 1889) June 10 – Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco (b. 1878) June 12 – Hans Junkermann, German actor (b. 1872) June 26 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist, physician (b. 1868) June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1872) June 30 – Kristian Kristiansen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1865) July July 2 – Alice Mary Dowd, American educator and poet (b. 1855) July 4 Cevat Abbas Gürer, Turkish army officer (b. 1887) Gordon Sidney Harrington, Canadian politician (b. 1883) Zofia Leśniowska, Polish army officer (aviation accident) (b. 1912) Władysław Sikorski, Polish prime minister in exile (aviation accident) (b. 1881) Charles Stevenson, American silent film actor (b. 1887) July 5 Leonardo Ferrulli, Italian pilot (killed in action) (b. 1918) Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880) July 6 Teruo Akiyama, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1891) Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa, Spanish-born Roman Catholic religious sister, canonized (b. 1889) July 8 Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter (injuries from suicide attempt in custody) (b. 1899) Sir Harry Oakes, American-born British gold mine owner (murdered) (b. 1874) July 11 – Eugen Lovinescu, Romanian critic, academic and novelist (b. 1881) July 12 Shunji Isaki, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1892) Cecilia Loftus, Scottish-born actress (b. 1876) July 13 Lorenzo Barcelata, Mexican composer (b. 1898) Marianna Biernacka, Polish Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed (killed) (b. 1888) Luz Long, German long jump athlete (killed in action) (b. 1913) Alexander Schmorell, Russian-born