German White Rose resistance member, Orthodox Church passion bearer and saint (executed) (b. 1917) July 14 – Mariya Borovichenko, Soviet medical officer (killed in action) (b. 1925) July 16 – Saul Raphael Landau, Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (b. 1870) July 19 Martin Faust, American film actor (b. 1886) Giuseppe Terragni, Italian architect (b. 1904) July 20 Maria Gay, Spanish opera singer (b. 1879) Charles Hazelius Sternberg, American fossil collector and paleontologist (b. 1850) July 21 José Jurado de la Parra, Spanish journalist, poet and playwright (b. 1856) Charley Paddock, American sprinter (aviation accident) (b. 1900) Louis Vauxcelles, French art critic (b. 1870) Theodor von Guérard, German jurist, politician (b. 1863) July 23 – Mario Nicolis di Robilant, Italian general (b. 1855) July 26 – Luis Barros Borgoño, Chilean politician (b. 1858) July 28 – Charles Granval, French actor (b. 1882) July 29 – William Ewart Hart, Australian aviator, dentist (b. 1885) July 30 – Max Eitingon, Belarusian-German medical doctor and psychoanalyst (b. 1881) July 31 Zdzisław Lubomirski, Polish aristocrat, landowner, lawyer, politician and activist (b. 1865) James MacLachlan, British flying ace (b. 1919) Hedley Verity, British cricketer (b. 1905) Rodger Young, American soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (killed in action) (b. 1918) August August 1 – Martyrs of Nowogródek, Polish nuns, martyrs and blessed (executed) (b. 1888–1916) Lin Sen, Chinese chairman of the National Government of China (b. 1868) August 5 Iosif Apanasenko, Soviet commander (killed in action) (b. 1890) Eva-Maria Buch, German resistance leader (executed) (b. 1921) August 9 Franz Jägerstätter, Austrian conscientious objector, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. 1907) Chaïm Soutine, Russian-born painter (b. 1893) August 12 – Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857) August 14 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1871) August 18 – Hans Jeschonnek, German general (suicide) (b. 1899) August 21 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) August 22 – Virgilio Dávila, Puerto Rican poet, educator, businessman and politician (b. 1869) August 24 Ettore Muti, Italian Fascist politician (shot while under arrest) (b. 1902) Simone Weil, French philosopher (b. 1909) August 26 – Ted Ray, British golfer (b. 1877) August 27 William de Burgh, British philosopher (b. 1866) Constantin Prezan, Romanian general, Marshal of Romania (b. 1861) August 28 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894) August 29 – Baba Nand Singh ji, Punjabi Sikh