screenwriter (b. 1878) Kurt Schwitters, German artist (b. 1887) Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870) January 12 – Herbert Allen Farmer, American criminal (b. 1891) January 19 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869) January 21 Eliza Moore, last person born into slavery in the United States (b. 1843) Naomasa Sakonju, Japanese admiral and war criminal (executed) (b. 1890) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876) January 24 Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891) Maria Mandl, Austrian concentration camp guard and war criminal (executed) (b. 1912) January 26 – Georg Bruchmüller, German artillery officer (b. 1863) January 28 Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (executed) (b. 1902) Anna Maria Gove, American physician (b. 1867) January 29 – King Tomislav II of Croatia (b. 1900) January 30 Sir Arthur Coningham, British air force air marshal (disappeared) (b. 1895) Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869) Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871) February February 2 Thomas W. Lamont, American banker (b. 1870) Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) February 4 – Otto Praeger, American postal official, implemented U.S. Airmail (b. 1871) February 5 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883) February 8 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman, industrialist (b. 1863) February 9 – Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882) February 11 Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898) Sir Isaac Isaacs, 9th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1855) February 15 – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Indian poet (b. 1904) February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1867) February 25 Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan politician, soldier, architect, 27th President of Uruguay and World War II leader (b. 1884) Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878) Juan Esteban Montero, Chilean political figure, 20th President of Chile (b. 1879) February 27 – Patriarch Nicodim of Romania (b. 1864). March March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896) March 10 Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900) Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister (b. 1886) March 16 – León S. Morra, Argentine physician and university professor (b. 1882) March 23 – George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, British field marshal (b. 1866) March 24 Nikolai Berdyaev, Soviet religious leader, political philosopher (b. 1874) Paolo Thaon di Revel, former admiral of the Royal Italian Navy (b. 1859) March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist, author