general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889) January 14 – Almas Ildyrym, Soviet poet (b. 1907) January 16 – Paolo Grilli, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1857) January 18 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1903) January 19 – Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria (b. 1895) January 22 – Andrés Luna de San Pedro, Filipino architect (b. 1887) January 24 – Duke York, American actor (b. 1908) January 25 Sveinn Björnsson, 1st President of Iceland (b. 1881) François Gagnepain, French botanist (b. 1866) Polly Moran, American actress (b. 1883) January 26 Zubeida Begum, Indian actress (b. 1926) André Cheron, American actor (b. 1880) Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic, Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic (b. 1895) January 27 – Fannie Ward, American actress (b. 1872) January 28 Thomas Hicks, American runner (b. 1876) Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, Ottoman statesman, Romanian writer (b. 1874) January 31 Nesaruddin Ahmad, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1873) February February 2 João Guilherme Fischer, Brazilian diplomat and scientist (b. 1876) Charles de Rochefort, French actor (b. 1879) Patriarch Callistratus of Georgia (b. 1866) February 3 – Harold L. Ickes, United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874) February 4 – Federico Henríquez y Carvajal, Dominican writer (b. 1848) February 6 – King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895) February 7 Sebastião da Gama, Portuguese poet (b. 1924) Philip G. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909) Pete Henry, American football player (Canton Bulldogs) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1897) February 9 – Arthur Hayes-Sadler, British admiral (b. 1865) February 11 – Matija Murko, Yugoslav scholar (b. 1861) February 14 Molly Malone, American actress (b. 1888) John Sheehan, American actor (b. 1885) February 15 – Enzo de Muro Lomanto, Italian tenor (b. 1902) February 17 – Edvige Carboni, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and venerable (b. 1880) February 18 – Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (b. 1901) February 19 Lawrence Grant, British actor (b. 1870) Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) February 20 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, 28th President of Ecuador (b. 1888) February 21 – Francis Xavier Ford, American Roman Catholic bishop, missionary, servant of God and reverend (b. 1892) February 24 – Tadeusz Vetulani, Polish agriculturalist (b. 1897) February 26 Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, dictator and President of Greece (b. 1878) Josef Thorak,