painter (b. 1907) Irving Pichel, American actor and director (b. 1891) Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (b. 1880) July 14 Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892) July 16 – Herms Niel, German composer (b. 1888) July 17 – Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895) July 19 – Hannes Meyer, Swiss architect (b. 1889) July 28 – Sōjin Kamiyama or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the American silent film era (b. 1884) July 31 – Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Luxembourg aristocrat (b. 1899) August August 3 Bess Streeter Aldrich, American writer (b. 1881) Colette, French novelist (b. 1873) August 14 – Hugo Eckener, German president of the Zeppelin Dirigible Company (b. 1868) August 19 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman and Christian Democracy politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881) August 21 – Marin Ceaușu, Romanian general (b. 1891) August 24 – Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th President of Brazil (suicide) (b. 1882) August 31 – Elsa Barker, American writer (b. 1869) September September 1 – Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895) September 2 – Franz Leopold Neumann, German- political activist and Marxist theorist (b. 1900) September 3 – Eugene Pallette, American actor (b. 1889) September 5 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860) September 6 – Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877) September 7 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885) Glenn Scobey Warner, American college football coach (b. 1871) September 8 – André Derain, French artist, painter and sculptor (b. 1880) September 20 – Washington Phillips, American gospel singer and instrumentalist (b. 1880) September 21 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (b. 1858) September 24 – Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide) (b. 1904) September 25 – Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish writer (b. 1881) September 26 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868) September 27 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881) September 28 – Bert Lytell, American actor (b. 1885) September 29 – Martin Wetzer, Finnish general (b. 1868) October October 1 – René Le Senne, French philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882) October 9 – Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1892) October 12 – George Welch, American aviator (b. 1918) October 18 – Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer, Polish general and politician (b. 1884) October 19 – Hugh Duffy, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and