correspondent (b. 1903) Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (executed) (b. 1918) Sophie Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (executed) (b. 1921) February 23 Sir Edward Heaton-Ellis, British vice-admiral (b. 1868) Grigory Kravchenko, Soviet test pilot and air force general (killed in action) (b. 1912) Karl Leopold von Möller, German officer, journalist, author and politician (b. 1876) February 26 – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official (killed in action) (b. 1892) February 27 – Maria Josefa Karolina Brader, Swiss Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1860) March March 1 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863) March 2 – Gisela Januszewska, Austrian physician (in Theresienstadt concentration camp) (b. 1867) March 3 – Rafael López Nussa, Puerto Rican physician (b. 1885) March 6 – Jimmy Collins, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1870) March 8 Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862) Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo, Indonesian independence leader (b. 1886) March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter, sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878) March 10 Laurence Binyon, English poet and scholar (b. 1869) Tully Marshall, American character actor (b. 1864) March 12 Czesława Kwoka, Polish Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1928) Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869) March 13 – Jaap Nunes Vaz, Dutch journalist, writer and editor (killed in Sobibór extermination camp) (b. 1906) March 19 – Frank Nitti, Italian-born American gangster (suicide) (b. 1886) March 20 Lizika Jančar, Slovene Partisan, national hero (killed by militia) (b. 1919) Heinrich Zimmer, German-born Indologist, historian (pneumonia) (b. 1890) March 22 – Hans Woellke, German Olympic athlete (killed by partisans) (b. 1911) March 23 – Mervyn Herbert, Viscount Clive, British peer, army officer (killed on active service in aviation accident) (b. 1904) March 27 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, British politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882) March 28 Ben Davies, British tenor (b. 1858) Lorenzo Gasparri, Italian admiral (killed on active service in accidental explosion) (b. 1894) Edward Heron-Allen, British polymath, lawyer, scientist and scholar (b. 1861) Robert W. Paul, British film director (b. 1869) Sergei Rachmaninoff, Soviet composer (b. 1873) March 30 – Maria Restituta Kafka, German Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (executed) (b. 1894) March 31 – Pavel Milyukov, exiled Russian politician, founder and leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party (b. 1859) April April 1 – Vahida Maglajlić, Yugoslav partisan, national hero (killed