in combat) (b. 1907) April 3 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893) April 5 – W. G. Howard Gritten, British barrister, writer and conservative politician (b. 1870) April 6 – Alexandre Millerand, French politician, 41st Prime Minister of France and 11th President of France (b. 1859) April 7 – Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist (b. 1864) April 8 Harry Baur, French actor (b. 1880) Itamar Ben-Avi, Israeli activist (b. 1882) Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican politician, revolutionary (b. 1891) Otto and Elise Hampel, German anti-Nazi resistance members (executed) (b. 1897 & 1903) Richard Sears, American tennis champion (b. 1861) April 9 – Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter (in Sobibór extermination camp) (b. 1923) April 11 – Kim Myeong-sik, Korean independence activist (b. 1890) April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (b. 1888) April 16 – Carlos Arniches, Spanish playwright (b. 1866) April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884) April 21 – Rihard Jakopič, Yugoslav painter (b. 1869) April 24 Kenneth Whiting, United States Navy officer, submarine and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881) Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (b. 1878) April 30 Eddy Hamel, American footballer (b. 1902; killed in Auschwitz) Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, creator of Ido and Novial languages (b.1860) Beatrice Webb, British sociologist, economist, historian and social reformer (b. 1858) May May 1 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader, founder of Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871) May 3 – Frank Maxwell Andrews, American general (plane crash) (b. 1884) May 4 Cesira Ferrani, Italian soprano (b. 1863) Saverio Marotta, Italian naval officer (killed in action) (b. 1911) May 5 Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. 1911) Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, British politician, judge (b. 1870) May 7 – Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880) May 8 – Miroslav Šalom Freiberger, Yugoslav rabbi, writer and spiritual leader (killed at Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1903) May 14 George, Crown Prince of Saxony, Catholic priest (b. 1893) Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, author and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) May 15 – Horst Hannig, German Luftwaffe fighter ace (b. 1921) May 17 Johanna Elberskirchen, German feminist (b. 1864) Montagu Love, British actor (b. 1877) May 19 – Kristjan Raud, Soviet painter, drawer (b. 1865) May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist, inventor (b. 1869) May 22 – Helen Taft, First