1877) Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (executed) (b. 1900) April 18 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician, Roman Catholic priest, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia and President of Slovakia (b. 1887) April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870) April 21 – Heitor da Silva Costa, Brazilian engineer, designer and constructor (b. 1873) April 23 – Gyula Károlyi, Hungarian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871) April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873) April 25 José María Reina Andrade, acting president of Guatemala (b. 1860) Ana Cumpănaș, Austro-Hungarian prostitute (b. 1889) April 26 – Francesco Paolo Finocchiaro, Italian painter (b. 1868) April 29 Gheorghie Ciuhandu, Romanian Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and advocate (b. 1875) Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867) Karel Čurda, Czech soldier and parachutist (b. 1911) April 30 Francesc Cambó, Andorran politician (b. 1876) Sir Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1861) May May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858) May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b. 1926) May 14 – John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (b. 1888) May 15 – Miguel Abadía Méndez, Colombian politician, 12th President of Colombia (b. 1867) May 16 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861) Michael Joseph Curley, American Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1879) Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1903) May 17 George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869) Seabiscuit, thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1933) May 18 – Lucile Gleason, American actress (b. 1888) May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) May 23 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878) May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1907) May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame (b. 1880) May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress (b. 1907) June June 6 S. H. Dudley, American urban singer (b. 1864) Władysław Raczkiewicz, Polish politician, lawyer, diplomat and 5th President of Poland (b. 1885) José Marques da Silva, Portuguese architect (b. 1869) June 9 Augusto Giacometti, Italian painter (b. 1877) J. Warren Kerrigan, American actor (b. 1879) June 11 – Richard Hönigswald, Hungarian-born American philosopher (b. 1875) June 14 – Albert Marquet, French painter (b.