21 Ubaldo Pacchierotti, Italian composer (b. 1876) John Surratt, suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, son of Mary Surratt (b. 1844) April 27 – Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878) April 28 – Edward Felix Baxter, English recipient of the Victorian Cross (b. 1885) May May 1 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license (b. 1890) May 2 – Jules Blanchard, French sculptor (b. 1832) May 3 Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, political activist, and nationalist (executed) (b. 1879) Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1878) Tom Clarke, Irish republican, leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (executed) (b. 1858) May 4 Lord John Hay, British admiral and politician (b. 1827) Joseph Plunkett, Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary (executed) (b. 1887) Hector Sévin, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1852) May 6 – Hans Chiari, Austrian pathologist (b. 1851) May 8 Mabel Beardsley, English actress (b. 1871) William Burnyeat, British politician (b. 1837) Éamonn Ceannt, Irish republican (executed) (b. 1881) Aeneas Mackintosh, British Merchant Navy officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1879) Victor Hayward, British explorer (b. 1887) May 11 Max Reger, German modernist composer (b. 1873) Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist (b. 1873) Tirésias Simon Sam, 16th President of Haiti (b. 1835) May 12 James Connolly, Irish socialist and political activist (executed) (b. 1868) Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish republican (executed) (b. 1883) May 13 Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859) Ján Bahýľ, Slovak engineer and inventor (b. 1856) Margaret Benson, English author (b. 1865) Émile Petitot, French Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1838) May 18 - Chen Qiemi, Chinese politician (b. 1878) May 19 – Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix driver (killed in action) (b. 1884) May 21 – Artúr Görgei, Hungarian military general and politician (b. 1818) May 23 – Vladimír Jindřich Bufka, Czechoslovak photographer (b. 1887) May 27 – Joseph Gallieni, French general (b. 1849) May 28 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer and political activist (b. 1856) May 31 – Sir Horace Hood, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1870) June June 2 – Paul von Bruns, German surgeon (b. 1846) June 5 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman (drowned) (b. 1850) June 6 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician, Emperor of China and 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1859) June 7 Alberto Elmore