Pfleumer, German engineer, inventor (b. 1881) August 30 – Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, 6th President of Panama (b. 1872) August 31 Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (b. 1892) Pope Macarius III of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarch, saint (b. 1872) September September 6 Witold Leon Czartoryski, Polish nobleman (b. 1864) John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884) September 9 – Aage Bertelsen, Danish painter (b. 1873) September 12 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1880) September 15 Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician and bacteriologist (b. 1858) André Tardieu, 3-time prime minister of France (b. 1876) Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883) Zhang Mingqi, Qing dynasty politician (b. 1875) September 16 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884) September 18 José Agripino Barnet, Cuban politician and diplomat, acting President of Cuba (b. 1864) Blind Willie Johnson, American gospel blues singer (b. 1897) September 20 Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian soldier, statesman and Interim President of Brazil (b. 1869) Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp (suicide) (b. 1909) September 24 – Hans Geiger, German physicist, inventor (b. 1882) September 25 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and president (1924-1928), known as Jefe Maximo ("Maximum Boss") (b. 1877) September 26 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881) Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1897) October October 1 – Walter Bradford Cannon, American physiologist (b. 1871) October 6 Leonardo Conti, German physician, Nazi officer (suicide) (b. 1900) Hans Vogel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) (b. 1881) October 8 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869) October 10 – Joseph Darnand, Vichy French politician (executed) (b. 1897) October 12 – Dmytro Antonovych, Soviet politician (b. 1877) October 13 – Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857) October 15 – Pierre Laval, French politician, 2-time Prime Minister of France (executed) (b. 1883) October 18 – Frederick Hovey, American tennis player (b. 1868) October 19 Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general, politician and 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877) N. C. Wyeth, American illustrator (b. 1882) October 21 Henry Armetta, Italian actor (b. 1888) Felicija Bortkevičienė, Lithuanian politician and publisher (b. 1873) October 24 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Nazi collaborator (executed) (b. 1887) October 25 – Robert Ley, German Nazi politician (suicide) (b. 1890) October 26 Adolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1854) Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878) October 30 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (b. 1905) October 31 Henry Ainley,