senator (b. 1860) May 17 – Panagis Tsaldaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868) May 24 – Khaz'al Khan Ibn Haji Jabir Khan, Iranian emir (b. 1863) May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914) June June 3 – Walther Wever, German general, Luftwaffe commander (b. 1887) June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American author (suicide) (b. 1906) June 12 – Karl Krays, Austrian writer, journalist (b. 1874) June 14 – G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874) June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878) June 18 – Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868) June 19 – Sir William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851) June 22 Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist (b. 1866) Moritz Schlick, German philosopher, physicist (b. 1882) June 28 – Alexander Berkman, Russian anarchist (b. 1870) July July 1 – Hovhannes Abelian, Armenian actor (b. 1865) July 8 – Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879) July 9 – Auguste Adib Pacha, two-time prime minister of Lebanon (b. 1859) July 11 – James Murray, American actor (b. 1901) July 13 – José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (b. 1893) July 16 – Alan Crosland, American film director (b. 1894) July 20 – José Sanjurjo, Spanish general (b. 1872) July 23 – Anna Abrikosova, Soviet Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (b. 1882) July 24 Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857) Sir Arnold Theiler, South African veterinary scientist (b. 1867) July 25 – Heinrich Rickert, German philosopher (b. 1863) August August 1 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) August 9 – Lincoln Steffens, American journalist (b. 1866) August 12 Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, Spanish teacher, religious woman (b. 1903) Manuel Goded, Spanish general (executed) (b. 1882) August 15 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) August 19 Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer (assassinated) (b. 1898) Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (b. 1904) Oscar von Sydow, 18th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1873) August 22 – José María Hinojosa, Spanish poet (assassinated) (b. 1904) August 23 – Julio Ruiz de Alda, Spanish aviator, Falangist politician (executed) (b. 1897) August 25 Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, Soviet Communist Party activist (b. 1881) Lev Kamenev, Soviet politician (b. 1883) Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (b. 1883) September September 6 – Víctor Pradera Larumbe, Spanish political theorist (executed) (b. 1872) September 7 –