Italian chemist (b. 1860) Georges Hilaire Bousquet, French scholar (b. 1845) January 16 – Pyotr Bark, Soviet statesman (b. 1869) January 17 – Richard Boleslawski, Polish film director (b. 1889) January 18 – Jaime Hilario Barbal, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (executed) (b. 1889) January 21 Yasin al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician and 4th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1884) Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1896) January 23 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist, politician (b. 1876) February February 1 – Asano Nagakoto, Japanese diplomat, politician (b. 1842) February 2 – Reinhold Hanisch, Austrian politician, worker (b. 1884) February 5 Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born writer (b. 1861) José Nicoletti Filho, Italian revolutionary hero (b. 1871) February 7 – Elihu Root, American statesman, diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1845) February 11 Walter Burley Griffin, American architect, town planner (b. 1876) Vasily Gurko, Russian general (b. 1864) Maria Luisa Josefa, Mexican Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1866) Peter of Jesus Maldonado, Mexican priest, martyr and saint (b. 1892) February 14 Vicente Vilar David, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, saint and martyr (killed in battle) (b. 1889) Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (b. 1875) February 17 – George Hassell, English actor (b. 1881) February 19 – Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan writer (b. 1878) February 20 – Sir Percy Cox, British army general and colonial administrator (b.1864) February 24 Vladimir Lipsky, Soviet scientist, botanist (b. 1863) Beyene Merid, Ethiopian military commander (b. 1897) Sir Guy Standing, British actor (b. 1873) February 27 Douglas Carnegie, British politician (b. 1870) Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (killed in battle) (b. 1915) March March 6 – John Ellis Martineau, American politician (b. 1873) March 7 – Concepción Cabrera de Armida, Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and blessed (b. 1862) March 8 Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Soviet politician, activist (b. 1896) Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic, essayist (b. 1864) March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860) March 12 Jenő Hubay, Hungarian composer, violinist (b. 1858) Charles-Marie Widor, French organist, composer (b. 1844) March 13 – Elihu Thomson, English-American engineer and inventor, co-founder of General Electric (b. 1853) March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890) March 16 – Sir Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1863) March 18 Mélanie Bonis, French composer (b. 1858) Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (b.