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Last updated: 2008 August 9.

1943 January 5 George Washington Carver famous black American agricultural scientist dies at age 81. [1] January 7 Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at age 86. [1] January 9 Robin G Collingwood English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at age 53. [1] January 10 Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38), dies at age 66. [1] J Arthur S Berson Austrian meteorologist, dies at age 83. [1] January 11 Carlo Tresca New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered. [1] January 12 Jan R T Campert Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at age 40. [1] January 13 Sophie Taeuber/Täuber-Arp Swiss sculptor, dies at age 53. [1] January 14 Adolf Sandberger composer, dies at age 78. [1] January 16 Franz Courtens Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at age 88. [1] January 20 Giacomo Benvenuti composer, dies at age 57. [1] January 21 Otakar Sini composer, dies at age 61. [1] January 23 Alexander Woollcott critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at age 56. [1] January 24 John Burns English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies. [1] January 26 Nikolai Vavilov geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies. [1] February 3 Alexander Goode rabbi who surrendered his life jacket, drowns. [1] February 4 Frank Calder first NHL president, dies. [1] February 6 HA Seyffardt Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at age 71. [1] February 9 Wife of General Reydons shot to death by resistance. [1] February 13 William Walraven journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at age 55. [1] February 14 David Hilbert German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at age 81. [1] Frieda Reiss French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz. [1] February 15 Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at age 38. [1] William Victor Harris composer, dies at age 73. [1] February 18 Henri Polak Dutch union leader/politician (Social-Democrat), dies at age 74. [1] February 22 Christoph Probst German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies. [1] February 27 Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), dies at age 84. [1] March 2 Alexandre Yersin Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at age 79. [1] March 3 George Thomson cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for England 1909-10), dies. [1] March 4 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis Greek foreign minister, dies at age 71. [1] Pieter C Boutens Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at age 73. [1] March 9 Oskar Hêks Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz. [1] March 10 Tully Marshall actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at age 78. [1] March 19 Vicente Ripolles composer, dies at age 75. [1] March 23 André Lichtenberger French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at age 72. [1] Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger composer, dies at age 47. [1] March 27 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash. [1] March 28 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Russian composer/pianist, dies at age 69. [1] April 3 Conrad Veidt German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at age 50. [1] April 4 Oskar Schlemmer German painter/sculptor, dies at age 54. [1] Raoul Laparra composer, dies at age 66. [1] April 7 Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at age 72. [1] April 8 Paul Colin Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed. [1] Richard Sears first to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at age 81. [1] April 14 Asser B Kleerekoper SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at age 62. [1] Geoffrey Turton Shaw composer, dies at age 63. [1] April 15 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 18 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down over the Solomon Islands. [10] April 19 Gustave Doret composer, dies at age 76. [1] April 23 Fréderic baron d'Erlanger French composer/banker, dies at age 74. [1] April 24 Gerardus H de Hare socialist vicar, dies at age 63. [1] April 25 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko playwright/director, dies. [1] April 29 Joseph Achron Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at age 56. [1] Karl Adrian Wohlfart composer, dies at age 68. [1] Sidney A K Keyes English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at age 20. [1] April 30 Beatrice Potter Webb British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at age 85. [1] Etty Hillesum Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz. [1] May 3 Leslie Heward composer, dies at age 45. [1] May 8 Mordicai Anielewicz commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed. [1] May 10 André Bertulot Belgian resistance fighter, hanged. [1] Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur Belgian resistance fighter, hanged. [1] Maurice-Albert Raskin Belgian resistance fighter, hanged. [1] May 12 Albert Stoessel composer, dies at age 48. [1] May 17 Montagu Love actor (Wind), dies at age 65. [1] May 24 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko Russian playwright, dies at age 84. [1] May 26 Edsel Ford owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at age 49. [1] May 27 Birth of Bruce Weitz Norwalk Connecticut; actor (Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold). [1] May 29 Hermann Hans Wetzler composer, dies at age 72. [1] June 2 Leslie Howard actor killed, when Nazis shot down his plane. [1] November 22 Lorenz Hart lyricist, dies in New York. [1] December 2 Nordahl Grieg writer, dies. [1] December 4 Carlo Mierendorff German politician/antifascist, dies at age 46. [1] December 6 Firmin Baes Flemish painter, dies at age 69. [1] Hermann Lohr composer, dies at age 72. [1] December 7 John Bouber [Blom] actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at age 22. [1] December 15 Thomas W "Fats" Waller jazz pianist, dies in Kansas City Missouri at age 39. [1] December 23 Theo[dorus J] Thijssen Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at age 64. [1] December 25 Birth of Hanna Schygulla Katowice Silesia, actress (Love is Colder than Death). [1] Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer, dies at age 62. [1] Raymond Huntington Woodman composer, dies at age 82. [1] December 29 William H Singer US painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at age 75. [1] December 30 Hobart Bosworth actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at age 76. [1] 1944 January 1 C T B Turner cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wicket All time great), dies. [1] January 4 Henri "Hans" Flu Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/anti-fascist, murder. [1] Kaj Munk [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies. [1] January 5 Adolph Goldschmidt German/Swiss art historian, dies at age 80. [1] January 7 J Verleun Dutch resistance fighter, executed. [1] January 11 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano Italian politician, dies. [1] January 14 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul Turkish poet, dies at about age 74. [1] January 19 Harold Fraser-Simson composer, dies at age 71. [1] January 21 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer, dies at age 74. [1] January 23 Edvard Munch Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at age 80. [1] January 29 William Allen White US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at age 75. [1] February 1 Martin Lunssens composer, dies at age 72. [1] Piet Mondrian abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at age 71. [1] February 5 Robert E Park sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at age 79. [1] February 8 Clem Wilson cricketer (brother of Rockley, two Tests for England 1896), dies. [1] February 11 Ivan Sollertinski friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies. [1] February 16 Edmund von Borck composer, dies at age 37. [1] February 17 Fausto Agnelli Swiss painter, dies at age 64. [1] February 19 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg composer, dies at age 76. [1] February 23 Leo Hendrick Baekeland inventor (Bakelite), dies. [1] February 24 Leo H A Baekeland Belgian/US chemist (bakelite), dies at age 80. [1] March 1 ... Formans director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz. [1] March 5 Max Jacob French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at age 67. [1] March 10 David Vogel Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at age 52. [1] March 11 Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at age 62. [1] March 14 Pavel Grigor'yevich composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 15 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI), dies at age 86. [1] March 18 Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor, dies at age 79. [1] March 20 Felix Woyrsch composer, dies at age 83. [1] March 22 Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed. [1] March 23 O C Wingate British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash. [1] March 26 Benjamin Crémieux French author (In Buchenwald), dies at age 55. [1] March 28 Rabbi Chayyim Most Maggid of Kovono, killed by Nazis. [1] Stephen Butler Leacock writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at age 75. [1] March 31 Mineichi Koga Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies. [1] April 2 Mikulas Moyzes composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 4 John Peale Bishop US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at age 51. [1] Karel Weis composer, dies at age 82. [1] April 5 Isolde Kurz German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at age 90. [1] Willy Derby [Dieben] singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies. [1] April 9 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski composer, dies at age 59. [1] April 13 Cecile Chaminade composer, dies at age 86. [1] Paul Hazard French literature historian, dies at age 65. [1] April 17 J T Hearne cricketer (took 49 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies. [1] April 18 Cécile Chamindale composer, dies. [1] April 19 Tommy Hitchcock polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at age 44. [1] April 22 Mezio Agostini composer, dies at age 68. [1] May 9 Ethel Mary Smyth composer, dies at age 86. [1] May 11 Henk Hos resistance fighter, executed at age 37. [1] May 12 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q] British author/critic, dies at age 80. [1] May 16 George Ade US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at age 78. [1] Leone Sinigaglia composer, dies at age 75. [1] Max Brand [Frederick Schiller Faust] western author, dies. [1] May 26 C M Francois cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in five Tests for South Africa), dies. [1] May 28 Katri Vala Finnish poet, dies at age 42. [1] May 30 Jessie Ralph actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at age 79. [1] July 20 (1242 hours) In Rastenburg, East Prussia, a bomb explodes in the Gästebaracke of Adolf Hitler's war headquarters. Hitler receives only minor injuries. Hitler's double, Heinrich Berger, dies a few hours later. Three others die later of injuries: Hitler's stenographer General Schmundt, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe General Korten, and Colonel Brandt, aide to General Heusinger. [10] August 30 Former Paris Military Governor Colonel-General Karl Heinrich von Stülpnagel is hanged. [10] October 1 Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala. [1] October 8 Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican politician, dies. [1] October 11 German Colonel Baron Alexis von Roenne is executed by Nazi authorities for treason. He was the head of German intelligence, and had convinced Adolf Hitler that the Allied landing would be in the Pas de Calais. [10] October 14 Erwin Rommel German Field Marshall (WW II-Africa), dies at age 52. [1] German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler. [1] November 6 Hannah Senesh Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest. [1] November 22 Arthur S Eddington dies. [1] November 25 Kenesaw Landis baseball commisioner, dies. [1] December 2 Filippo T Marinetti Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at age 67. [1] JW Ummels Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies. [1] December 3 Delfien Vanhaute Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at age 75. [1] December 9 Laird Cregar actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at age 28. [1] December 13 Vassily V Kandinsky abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at age 78. [1] December 15 Glenn Miller US band leader/jazz composer, dies at age 40. [1] December 16 Glenn Miller US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies at age 40. [1] December 17 Pieter A Roodenburgh student/resistance fighter, dies at age 26. [1] December 20 Abbas Hilmi II viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at age 70. [1] December 22 Antoine Mariotte composer, dies on 69th birthday. [1] Harry Langdon US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at age 60. [1] December 24 Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer, dies at age 66. [1] December 27 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach composer, dies at age 77. [1] December 30 Romain Roland French writer/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1915), dies at age 78. [1]