1895) April April 2 Jean Epstein, French film director (b. 1897) Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885) April 4 King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893) Rachilde, French author (b. 1860) April 9 Eddie Cochems, American father of the forward pass in football (b. 1877) Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher (b. 1891) Stanisław Wojciechowski, 2nd President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1869) April 11 Boris Kidrič, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1912) Kid Nichols, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1869) April 12 – Lionel Logue, Australian speech and language therapist (b. 1880) April 13 – Eduard C. Lindeman, American social worker and author (b. 1885) April 20 – Erich Weinert, German writer, member of the Communist Party of Germany (b. 1890) April 27 – Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; spouse of John MacBride (b. 1866) April 29 – Alice Prin, French artists' model (b. 1901) May–June May 1 – Everett Shinn, American painter (b. 1876) May 8 – Anna Rüling, German journalist, "the first known lesbian activist" (b. 1880) May 16 Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian military officer and statesman, 45th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1874) Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1910) May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and Prime Minister (b. 1873) May 21 – Ernst Zermelo, German logician and mathematician (b. 1871) May 27 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1868) May 29 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891) May 30 – Dooley Wilson, American actor (b. 1886) May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet and Russian painter and architect (b. 1885) June 1 – Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901) June 5 William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876) Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893) Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887) June 9 – Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884) June 15 – Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877) June 18 – René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894) June 19 Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day) Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896) June 22 – Bill Lange, American sports coach (b. 1897) June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French artist and theoretician (b.