9 – Madame le Corbeau (Marguerite Pitre), Canadian murderer (b. 1909) (hanged) January 13 – Sir Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872) January 16 – Israel Goldstine, New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1898) January 21 – Mary Mannering, early 20th-century English stage actress (b. 1876) January 28 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876) January 29 – Sir Reginald Wingate, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1861) January 30 – Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867) February–March February 1 – William Sydney Marchant, British colonial official (b. 1894) February 2 – Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909) February 3 – Richard Rushall, British businessman (b. 1865) February 5 – Iuliu Maniu, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1873) February 9 – Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874) February 12 – Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872) February 16 – James L. Kraft, Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (b. 1874) February 19 – Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886) February 20 – Francesco Saverio Nitti, Italian economist and political figure, 24th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1868) February 21 – Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (b. 1862) February 24 – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875) February 25 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856) February 27 – Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888) March 2 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (b. 1882) March 3 – James J. Jeffries, American boxing champion (b. 1875) March 5 Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897) Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1891) Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1878) March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892) March 13 – Johan Laidoner, Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. 1884) March 14 – Klement Gottwald, 5th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896) March 15 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (b. 1874) March 20 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (b. 1892) March 21 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychoanalyst (b. 1888) March 22 – Gustav Herglotz, German mathematician (b. 1881) March 23 Raoul Dufy, French painter (b. 1875) Oskar Luts, Estonian writer and playwright (b. 1887) March 24 Mary of Teck, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) Paul Couturier, French priest (b. 1881) March 28 – Jim Thorpe, Native-American athlete and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1887) March 31 – Ivan Lebedeff, Russian actor (b.