Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Japanese prince, member of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office (b. 1865) May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, German politician, Reichsführer-SS (suicide) (b. 1900) May 24 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1892) May 25 Rafael Estrella Ureña, Dominican lawyer and politician, acting President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1889) Ishii Kikujirō, Japanese diplomat and politician (killed in bombing raid) (b. 1866) May 31 Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi leader (suicide) (b. 1904) Curt von Gottberg, German SS general (suicide) (b. 1896) June June 4 – Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (b. 1878) June 7 – Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870) June 8 Robert Desnos, French poet, resistance fighter (typhoid) (b. 1900) Karl Hanke, German Nazi general and last Reichsführer-SS (killed) (b. 1903) June 11 – Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and editor (b. 1862) June 12 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-born American magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (b. 1876) June 13 – Minoru Ōta, Japanese admiral (suicide) (b. 1891) June 15 Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1897) Carl Gustaf Ekman, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1872) Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, American author (b. 1863) Aris Velouchiotis, Greek World War II resistance leader (b. 1905) June 16 Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet Red Army general (b. 1904) Nils Edén, 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1871) June 18 Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862) Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (killed in action at Okinawa) (b. 1886) Friedrich, Prince of Wied, German prince (b. 1872) June 20 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, British politician (b. 1858) Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince (b. 1888) June 22 Isamu Chō, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1895) Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1887) June 24 – José Gutiérrez Solana, Spanish painter (b. 1886) June 27 – Emil Hácha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia, State President of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (b. 1872) June 30 Germogen (Maximov), Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (b. 1861) Gabriel El-Registan, Soviet poet (b. 1899) July July 1 – Félix Evaristo Mejía, Dominican diplomat, educator and writer (b. 1866) July 2 – Óscar R. Benavides, Peruvian field marshal, diplomat, politician and President of Peru (b. 1876) July 5 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885) July 7 – Peter To Rot, Papuan Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1912) July 9 – Luigi Aldrovandi