and geologist (b. 1881) April 13 – Peyton C. March, United States Army general (b. 1864) April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) April 19 – Jim Corbett, Anglo-Indian hunter, conservationist and author (b. 1875) April 24 – Alfred Polgar, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1873) April 25 – Constance Collier, English actress and acting coach (b. 1878) April 30 – John Henry Towers, American admiral and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1885) May May 2 – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 10th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1872) May 4 Louis Charles Breguet, French aircraft designer and builder and early aviation pioneer (b. 1880) George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881) May 10 Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881) John Radecki, Australian stained-glass artist (b. 1865) May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874) May 15 – Harry J. Capehart, American lawyer, politician, and businessperson (b. 1881) May 14 – Charles Pelot Summerall, American general (b. 1867) May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909) May 17 – Owen Roberts, American jurist (b. 1875) May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (b. 1875) May 19 – Concha Espina, Spanish writer (b. 1869) May 26 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race-car driver (accident) (b. 1918) May 29 – Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (b. 1885) May 30 – Bill Vukovich, American race-car driver (accident) (b. 1918) June June 3 – Barbara Graham, American criminal (executed) (b. 1923) June 10 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1878) June 11 – Walter Hampden, American actor (b. 1879) June 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman, British botanist (b. 1874) June 13 - Walter Braemer, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1883) June 17 – Carlyle Blackwell, American actor (b. 1884) June 26 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895) June 29 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881) July July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta, 38th President of Mexico (b. 1881) July 13 Ruth Ellis, British-born murderer, last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom (b. 1926) Stanley Price, American film and television actor (b. 1892) July 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869) July 23 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871) July 25 – Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet film composer and conductor (b. 1900) July 31 – Robert Francis, American actor (b. 1930) August August 1 –