Marescotti, Italian politician, diplomat (b. 1876) July 12 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871) Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (brain tumor) (b. 1895) July 13 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American actress (b. 1879) July 17 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal, as prisoner of war (b. 1885) July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet (b. 1871) July 24 – Arnold von Winckler, German general (b. 1856) July 25 – Malin Craig, United States Army general (b. 1875) July 28 – Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (b. 1864) July 29 – Maria Pierina De Micheli, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, mystic and blessed (b. 1890) July 31 – Artemio Ricarte, Filipino general (b. 1866) August August 1 – Blas Cabrera Felipe, Spanish physicist (b. 1878) August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863) August 3 – Roman Kochanowski, Polish painter, illustrator (b. 1857) August 4 – Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician and logician (starvation in prison camp) (b. 1909) August 5 – Nat Jaffe, American swing jazz pianist (b. 1918) August 8 – Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane, French flatulist (b. 1857) August 7 – Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, British/French WWII hero (injuries received in automobile accident) (b. 1907) August 9 Harry Hillman, American track athlete (b. 1881) Jun Tosaka, Japanese philosopher (in prison) (b. 1900) August 10 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882) August 12 – Karl Leisner, German Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1915) August 15 Korechika Anami, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1887) Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1890) August 16 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (ritual suicide) (b. 1891) August 18 Subhas Chandra Bose, Leader of Indian National Army (Third-degree burns from aircrash) (b. 1897) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Indian educationist (b. 1872) August 19 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875) August 22 – Mustafa Al-Maraghi, Egyptian reformer (b. 1881) August 24 – Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1887) August 25 John Birch, American missionary for whom the John Birch Society is named (killed in action) (b. 1918) Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral, Olympic shooter (b. 1888) Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of The Wall Street Journal and Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner (b. 1866) August 26 Pio Collivadino, Argentinian painter (b. 1869) Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890) August 27 – Blessed María Pilar Izquierdo Albero, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1906) August 29 – Fritz