American actor (b. 1884) October 26 – William Finnemann, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1882) October 27 – Helmuth Hübener, German youth political activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925) October 28 – Alexander von Dassel, German magistrate (b. 1854) October 31 – Emilio Caldara, Italian politician (b. 1868) November November 1 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908) November 2 – Elihu Grant, American scholar and writer (b. 1873) November 3 Eric Abrahamsson, Swedish actor (b. 1890) Amédé Ardoin, American musician (b. 1898) November 5 George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878) Kiyoura Keigo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1850) November 9 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883) November 11 Hector Abbas, Dutch actor (b. 1884) Merton Beckwith-Smith, British army officer (b. 1890) November 12 – Laura Hope Crews, American actress (b. 1879) November 13 Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1890) Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1889) November 15 – Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1879) November 16 – Joseph Schmidt, Polish tenor (b. 1904) November 19 Ilya Fondaminsky, Soviet author (b. 1880) Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892) November 21 Count Leopold Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863) J. B. M. Hertzog, Boer General and 3rd Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1866) November 23 Tomitarō Horii, Japanese general (b. 1890) Hernando Siles Reyes, Bolivian politician, 31st President of Bolivia (b. 1882) November 24 Guido Masiero, Italian World War I flying ace and aviation pioneer (b. 1895) Francesco Agello, Italian aviator (b. 1902) November 25 – Mihail Dragomirescu, Romanian aesthetician, theorist and critic (b. 1868) November 26 Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Iranian diplomat, politician, teacher and writer, 3-time Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1877) Sigtryggur Jonasson, Canadian politician (b. 1852) November 27 – Hermann Harms, German botanist (b. 1870) November 28 – Marceli Nowotko, Polish activist (b. 1893) November 29 – William Stamps Farish II, American pioneer (b. 1881) November 30 – Buck Jones, American actor (b. 1891) December December 1 Teddy Sheean, Royal Australian Navy sailor, killed in action at the Battle of Timor (b. 1923) Leon Wachholz, Polish scientist and medical examiner (b. 1867) December 3 – Wilhelm Junk, Czechoslovakian natural historian, bibliographer and entomologist (b. 1866) December 5 – Richard Tucker, American actor (b. 1884) December 6 Karl Herxheimer, German dermatologist