surviving child of Queen Victoria (b. 1857) Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese fighter ace (b. 1920) William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881) October 27 – Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905) October 31 Henrietta Crosman, American actress (b. 1861) Joseph Hubert Priestley, British botanist (b. 1883) November November 1 Ismael Pérez Pazmiño, Ecuadoran journalist and politician (b. 1876) Andrey Sheptytsky, Soviet Eastern Catholic archbishop and venerable (b. 1865) November 2 Karol Irzykowski, Polish writer (b. 1873) Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) November 4 – Sir John Dill, British field marshal (b. 1881) November 5 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873) November 7 Max Bergmann, German biochemist (b. 1886) Richard Sorge, Soviet spy, executed (b. 1895) Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine, poet, executed (b. 1921) November 10 Wang Jingwei, Chinese statesman, President of the Nanjing-based and Japanese-supported collaborationist Government of the Republic of China (b. 1883) Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, German diplomat and resistance member (b. 1875) November 12 George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (b. 1884) George Houston, American actor (b. 1896) Otto Frank, German physiologist (b. 1865) November 13 Carl Lampert, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1894) Friedrich Lorenz, German Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1897) November 14 Walter Cramer, German resistance member (b. 1886) Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (b. 1892) Bernhard Letterhaus, German trade unionist and resistance member (b. 1894) Ferdinand von Lüninck, German politician and resistance member (b. 1888) November 16 – Maria Rodziewiczówna, Polish writer (b. 1863) November 19 – Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. 1850) November 22 Joseph Caillaux, French politician, 57th Prime Minister of France (b. 1863) Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist and mathematician (b. 1882) Sadakichi Hartmann, Japanese-born American critic and poet (b. 1867) Johan Pitka, Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain and admiral (b. 1872) November 25 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 1st commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1866) November 26 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American socialite and singer (b. 1868) November 30 – Lilo Gloeden, German resistance member (b. 1903) December December 1 – Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman and activist (b. 1878) December 2 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor and art theorist, founder of the Futurist movement (b. 1876) Josef Lhévinne, Soviet pianist (b. 1874) December 3