(b. 1925) Enrico Caviglia, Italian marshal (b. 1862) Branca de Gonta Colaço, Portuguese writer, scholar and linguist (b. 1880) Heinrich Maier, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1908) Takeichi Nishi, Japanese equestrian gold medalist (1932), tank commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (killed in action) (b. 1902) March 23 – Élisabeth de Rothschild, French WWII heroine (b. 1902) March 26 David Lloyd George, British politician and statesman, 51st Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863) Ichimaru Toshinosuke, Japanese naval aviator, commander at Battle of Iwo Jima (b. 1891) Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Imperial Japanese Army general, commander of the battle of Iwo Jima (probably killed in action) (b. 1891) Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1882) March 27 – Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author (b. 1867) March 29 – Ferenc Csik, Hungarian swimmer (air raid victim) (b. 1913) March 30 Élise Rivet, French nun, war heroine (murdered in concentration camp) (b. 1890) Maurice Rose, American general (killed in action) (b. 1899) March 31 Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1881) Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist (b. 1871) Torgny Segerstedt, Swedish newspaper editor, publicist (b. 1876) Maria Skobtsova, Soviet Orthodox nun and saint (killed by poison) (b. 1891) Natalia Tulasiewicz, Polish teacher and Roman Catholic blessed (murdered in concentration camp) (b. 1906) April April 7 Seiichi Itō, Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. 1890) Aruga Kōsaku, Japanese admiral (lost in action) (b. 1897) April 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (executed) (b. 1906) Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral, head of the Abwehr (executed) (b. 1887) Hans von Dohnanyi, Hungarian-born German lawyer, member of the German Resistance, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1902) April 10 Gloria Dickson, American actress (fire victim) (b. 1917) Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882) April 11 – Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, British colonial administrator (b. 1858) April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American political leader and statesman, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882) April 13 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874) April 15 – Joachim Albrecht Eggeling, German SS general (suicide) (b. 1884) April 18 Sir Ambrose Fleming, British electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1849) Ernie Pyle, American journalist (killed in action) (b. 1900) William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876) April 21 – Walter Model, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1891) April 22 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867) April 23 – Klaus