diplomat, lawyer (b. 1893) July 8 – Diana Abgar, Armenian diplomat (b. 1859) July 9 – Oliver Law, American labor organizer, Army officer (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1899) July 10 – Arthur Edmund Seaman, American professor and museum curator (b. 1858) July 11 George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898) Rodrigues Ottolengui, American writer (b. 1861) July 12 – Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, British politician, public servant (b. 1857) July 13 Mykhailo Boychuk, Soviet painter (b. 1882) Victor Laloux, French architect (b. 1850) July 14 Julius Meier, American businessman, politician (b. 1874) Joseph Taylor Robinson, American politician (b. 1872) July 15 – Walter Gay, American painter (b. 1856) July 16 – Vladimir Kirillov, Soviet poet (b. 1889) July 17 Annie Furuhjelm, Finnish feminist activist, politician (b. 1859) Percy Gardner, British archaeologist (b. 1846) July 18 Julian Bell, British poet (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1908) Grigol Giorgadze, Soviet historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879) July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born American inventor (b. 1874) July 22 Nazzareno Formosa, American Roman Catholic priest and reverend (b. 1901) Paolo Iashvili, Soviet poet (b. 1894) July 23 – Varnava, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1880) July 31 – Noë Bloch, Soviet producer (b. 1875) August August 5 – Jean Louis Conneau, French aviator (b. 1880) August 6 Adeodato Barreto, Portuguese poet (b. 1905) F. C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (b. 1864) August 8 – Martin Rázus, Czechoslovakian poet, writer and politician (b. 1888) August 9 – Na Woon-gyu, Korean actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1902) August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862) August 13 – Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot (b. 1902) August 19 Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest, missionary and saint (b. 1872) Asaichi Isobe, Japanese army officer (b. 1905) Ivan Kataev, Russian novelist, writer (b. 1902) August 22 Owen Burns, American entrepreneur (b. 1869) Gelegdorjiin Demid, Russian political military figure (b. 1900) August 24 – Gervase Beckett, British politician (b. 1866) August 26 Christos Christovasilis, Greek journalist, author (b. 1861) Andrew Mellon, American banker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855) August 30 Gaetano Bisleti, Italian cardinal (b. 1856) Tomás António Garcia Rosado, Portuguese general (b. 1854) August 31 – Ruth Baldwin, British socialite (b. 1905) September September 2 Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Indian revolutionary hero (b. 1880) Pierre de Coubertin, 2nd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863) September 3 – François Guiguet, French painter (b. 1860)