Gustave Mesny, French Army general (b. 1886) January 20 – Federico Pedrocchi, Italian artist, writer (killed on active service) (b. 1907) January 21 – Sir Archibald Murray, British Army general (b. 1860) January 22 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet, author (b. 1869) January 23 Eugen Bolz, German politician, 20 July Plotter (executed) (b. 1881) Nikolaus Gross, German Roman Catholic layman, martyr and blessed (b. 1898) Newton E. Mason, United States Navy rear admiral (b. 1850) January 30 Sir William Goodenough, British admiral (b. 1867) Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (b. 1874) January 31 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (executed for desertion) (b. 1920) February February (or March) – Anne Frank, German-born Jewish diarist, writer (typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) (b. 1929) February 1 Ivan Bagryanov, 30th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1891) Teresa Bogusławska, Polish poet and resistance worker (meningitis) (b. 1929) Dobri Bozhilov, 29th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1884) Bogdan Filov, Bulgarian archaeologist, historian and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1883) Petar Gabrovski, former acting Prime Minister of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1898) Johan Huizinga, Dutch cultural historian (b. 1872) Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (executed) (b. 1895) February 2 Adolf Brand, German campaigner for homosexuality (air raid victim) (b. 1874) Alfred Delp, German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1907) Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, civil servant, executive and economist, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1884) Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, German general, 20 July plotter (executed) (b. 1898) Joe Hunt, American tennis champion (military aircraft crash) (b. 1919) February 3 – Roland Freisler, Nazi German judge (air raid victim) (b. 1893) February 5 Denise Bloch, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915) Aurelio Craffonara, Italian painter, illustrator (b. 1875) Lilian Rolfe, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914) Violette Szabo, French/British World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921) February 6 – Robert Brasillach, French writer (executed) (b. 1909) February 7 – Karl Schwitalle, German Olympic weightlifter (killed in action) (b. 1906) February 8 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect, designer (b. 1886) February 10 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino jurist (murdered during the Battle of Manila) (b. 1878) February 11 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American songwriter (b. 1891) February 12 – Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (murdered during the Battle of Manila) (b. 1878) February 13 – Maria Orosa, Filipino technologist, chemist, humanitarian and WWII heroine (air raid victim)