March 22 – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. 1903) March 23 – Myron Selznick, American film producer (b. 1898) March 24 Aldo Finzi, Italian politician (executed) (b. 1891) Pietro Pappagallo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1888) Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903) March 25 – Omelyan Kovch, Soviet Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1884) March 28 – Stephen Leacock, British-born Canadian humorist, author and economist (b. 1869) March 31 Antoni Kiewnarski, Polish WWII hero (b. 1899) Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) Włodzimierz Kolanowski, Polish army officer (b. 1913) April April 1 – Sharifzyan Kazanbaev, Soviet army officer (b. 1916) April 2 – John Batchelor, British missionary and reverend (b. 1855) April 9 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1920) April 13 – Bartolomeo Gosio, Italian scientist (b. 1863) April 15 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher and Fascist politician (assassinated) (b. 1875) April 17 – J. T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867) April 21 – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (b. 1890) April 24 – Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888) April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880) April 28 Mohammed Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara (b. 1880) Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy during WWII (b. 1874) April 29 Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (b. 1874) Bernardino Machado, Portuguese political figure, 2-time Prime Minister of Portugal and 2-time President of Portugal, leader of the World War I (b. 1851) April 30 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (b. 1879) May May 5 – Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer, wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b. 1849) May 7 – William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian (b. 1860) May 11 – Leon Kozłowski, Polish archaeologist and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1892) May 12 Max Brand, American author (b. 1892) Harold Lowe, British sailor, 5th officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1882) Arthur Quiller-Couch, British writer and academic (b. 1863) Edel Quinn, Irish Roman Catholic laywoman, missionary and venerable (b. 1907) May 15 – Patriarch Sergius I (b. 1867) May 16 George Ade, American author (b. 1866) Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (b. 1873) May 17 – Milena Jesenská, Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and translator (b. 1896) May 20 Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (b. 1921) Eugenio Colorni, Italian philosopher and activist (b. 1909)