statesman (b. 1873) Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869) May 20 Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871) Enrico Gasparri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop (b. 1871) May 22 – Karl Hermann Frank, German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. 1898) May 23 – Billy Sullivan, American actor (b. 1891) May 26 Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1865) Joseffy, Austrian magician (b. 1873) May 27 Claire Croiza, French soprano (b. 1882) Henri Hauser, French historian, geographer and economist (b. 1866) May 28 – Claus Schilling, German medical researcher and war criminal (executed) (b. 1871) May 29 – Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Italian painter (b. 1897) May 30 Marcela Agoncillo, Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. 1860) Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist, chemist (b. 1910) May 31 – Picoğlu Osman, Turkish kemenche player (b. 1901) June June 1 Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier, politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania and Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1882) Leo Slezak, German tenor (b. 1873) June 3 – Mikhail Kalinin, 1st Head of State/President of the Soviet Union (b. 1875) June 4 – Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Hungarian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1864) June 5 – Maud Watson, British tennis player, first female Wimbledon champion (b. 1864) June 6 Isidro Ancheta, Filipino painter (d. 1882) Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) June 9 – Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), King of Thailand (assassinated) (b. 1925) June 10 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878) June 11 – Juanita Breckenridge Bates, American minister (b. 1860) June 12 – Hisaichi Terauchi, Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1879) June 13 – Charles Butterworth, American actor (b. 1896) June 14 Jorge Ubico, Guatemalan army general, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1878) John Logie Baird, British television pioneer (b. 1888) Edward Bowes, American radio personality (b. 1874) June 15 João Batista Becker, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop (b. 1870) Jovita Idar, Mexican-American journalist and political activist (b. 1885) June 18 – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. 1866) June 19 – Theodor Wulf, German physicist, Jesuit priest (b. 1868) June 20 – Empress Wanrong of China (b. 1906) June 23 – William S. Hart, American stage actor, silent film Western star, film director and writer (b. 1864) June 24 – Marian Bernaciak, Polish World War II heroine (b. 1917) June 27 Juan Antonio Ríos, Chilean political figure, 24th President of Chile and World War