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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1945 January 1 Vit Nejedly composer, dies at age 33. [1] January 2 Betram Home Ramsay English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at age 61. [1] January 3 Fyodor Akimenko composer, dies at age 68. [1] January 5 Dezsö Szabó Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at age 65. [1] January 8 Jac[obus] P Thijsse Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at age 79. [1] January 10 Rudolf Borchardt writer, dies at age 67. [1] January 11 Ada Negri Italian poet/author (Fatalità), dies at age 74. [1] January 14 Sandor Vandor composer, dies at age 43. [1] January 16 Dennis Donnini British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at age 19. [1] January 19 Ernest B Allo French theologist, dies at age 71. [1] January 22 A Wolfenstein writer, dies at age 61. [1] Carlo Felice Boghen composer, dies a day before 76th birthday. [1] Else Lasker-Schüler writer, dies at age 48. [1] Johan Eykman theologist (World Church), dies at age 52. [1] January 23 Helmuth J Moltke German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at age 37. [1] January 28 Philip "Felix" Bekkers actor (We Go on Trip), dies at age 37. [1] January 30 Gottlieb J Haberlandt Hungarian/German botanist, dies at age 90. [1] William Busch composer, dies at age 43. [1] January 31 (1004 hours) American Private Edward Donald Slovik, age 25, is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first such execution since the US Civil War. [1] [10] February 1 Johan Huizinga Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at age 72. [1] February 2 Karl F Goerdeler mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at age 60. [1] February 3 Jose Rolon composer, dies at age 61. [1] Roland Freisler German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies. [1] February 6 Jan Bos Dutch resistance fighter, executed. [1] Paul Bos Dutch resistance fighter, executed. [1] February 9 George J L Maduro resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau. [1] Jan Bakker resistance fighter, executed at age 26. [1] February 10 Juan de Hernandez composer, dies at age 63. [1] February 11 Al Dubin Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at age 53. [1] J S H Lokerman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme. [1] February 12 de Jong Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed. [1] Henrietta Szold founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies. [1] Walraven [Wally] van Hall Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at age 39. [1] February 13 George Studd cricketer (4 Tests with brother vs Australia 1882-83), dies. [1] February 16 Billy Frank cricketer (Test South Africa vs England 1896, 5 and 2, 1-52), dies. [1] Rudolf Värnlund Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at age 45. [1] February 19 Wim Speelman Dutch resistance fighter, executed at age 26. [1] February 21 Eric Liddell Scottish runner (Olympics-gold 1924), dies at age 43. [1] February 23 Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at age 62. [1] Aubrey Cousins Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle. [1] February 24 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's Prime Minister, assassinated in parliament. [1] February 25 Mário R de Morais Andrade Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at age 51. [1] February 27 HJ Lochtman Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen. [1] March 3 Arthur Vanderpoorten Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at age 61. [1] Koos Speenhoff Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at age 75. [1] March 6 Jan Thijssen Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm. [1] Rudolph Karel composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 7 Adolf Bartels German writer/racist, dies at age 82. [1] March 8 H J Jamin Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald. [1] Jan Beekes resistance fighter, executed at age 26. [1] March 12 Anne Frank diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp. [1] March 13 Herbert Bedford composer, dies at age 78. [1] March 15 Herman B Wiardi Beckman Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP), dies at age 41. [1] March 16 Birth of Börries von Münchhausen writer, dies. [1] Pierre Drieu la Rochelle French writer/poet, commits suicide at age 52. [1] March 19 Fritz Fromm German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed. [1] March 21 J Woortman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at age 39. [1] March 22 J Postuma Dutch resistance fighter, dies. [1] March 24 J S Nicklin Lieutenant-Colonel/Canada's first parachutist, dies. [1] Thomas Rennie General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies. [1] March 26 David Lloyd George British (Liberal) premier (1916-22), dies at age 82. [1] Isaack Stouten resistance fighter, shot to death at age 29. [1] March 27 Jørgen Nielsen Danish writer (romance), dies at age 42. [1] March 29 Karl T Sapper German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at age 79. [1] March 30 Karel Moor composer, dies at age 71. [1] March 31 Hans Fischer German physicist (Nobel Prize 1930), dies at age 63. [1] Maurice Rose first US General in Nazi Germany, killed in action at age 45. [1] April 3 Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at age 43. [1] April 5 Huldreich Georg Fruh composer, dies at age 41. [1] April 6 Benjamin M Telders president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at age 42. [1] April 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologist/antifascist, hanged. [1] Hans Oster German Major-General/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged. [1] Hans von Dohnanyi "July 20th plotter", hanged. [1] Theodor Haecker German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at age 65. [1] Wilhelm Canaris Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged. [1] April 10 Hendrik N Werkman resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at age 63. [1] April 11 Kamiel van Baelen Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at age 29. [1] April 12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1933-1945, Democrat), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, at age 63. [1] [10] April 17 Hannie Schaft "Girl with red hair", executed. [1] Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/Senator (Umbra timpului), dies. [1] Walter Model German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at age 54. [1] April 18 Ernest T Pyle British/US newscaster, killed in WWII at age 44. [1] [118.12] John Ambrose Fleming electrical engineer, dies. [1] April 19 J P Heyboer resistance fighter, executed. [1] April 21 John Poston British Major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at age 25. [1] April 22 Käthe Kollwitz German graphic artist, dies at age 77. [1] April 23 Albrecht Haushofer writer, dies at age 42. [1] April 24 Anton de Kom Suriname resistance fighter, dies at age 47. [1] Hubert Bath composer, dies at age 61. [1] April 28 Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian Partisans and killed. [10] Claretta Petacci mistress of Mussolini, executed. [1] Hans Bloesch writer, dies. [1] April 30 (morning) In Milan, Italy, partisans execute former chief of staff for the Italian Army Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, following a quick trial. [10] (1530 hours) In Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker, shooting himself in the mouth. [10] [129] Eva Braun mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at age 33. [1] May 1 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide. [1] Desider Antalffy-Zsiross Hungarian organist/composer, dies at age 59. [1] Paul Josef Goebbels Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide. [1] May 2 Martin Bormann propoganda minister for Hitler, dies. [1] May 3 Louis L H de Visser Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN), dies at age 66. [1] May 5 Guðmundur Jónsson Kamban Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at age 56. [1] May 9 Clem Hill cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies. [1] May 15 Major Courtney US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf. [1] May 17 Jan van Geenen resistance fighter, dies. [1] Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an founder first Zen Institute of America, dies. [1] May 22 Carel A Lion Cachet lithographer/wood carver, dies. [1] May 23 Heinrich Himmler bites a cyanide capsule during examination by a British army doctor and dies. [10] Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police, committed suicide. [1] May 30 Irma Laplasse Flemish farmer/Nazi collaborator, executed. [1] July 10 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies. [1] August 10 Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, dies. [1] [5] October 15 Pierre Laval is executed (shot) in the courtyard of Fresnes prison, in France. [10] October 24 In Akershus, Norway, Vidkun Quisling is executed. [10] November 28 Dwight Davis donator of the Davis cup, dies. [1] December 1 Harvey Bartlett Gaul composer, dies at age 64. [1] December 13 Robert van Genechten Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide. [1] Vittorio Mario Vanzo composer, dies at age 83. [1] December 14 Constantino Gaito composer, dies at age 67. [1] Forrester Harvey actor (Tarzan and Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at age 61. [1] Henry van Goudoever Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday. [1] Josef Kramer known as "beast of Belsen", and 10 others hanged for crimes committed at the Belsen and Oswiecim Nazi concentration camps. [1] December 20 Charles Eady cricketer (Tasmanian player for Australia 1896-1901), dies. [1] December 21 George S. Patton, US general (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car accident in Heidelberg, Germany, at age 60. [1] [5] December 22 Otto Neurath Austrian/British philosopher, dies at age 63. [1] December 23 Mogens Klitgaard Danish author (Brunkul), dies at age 39. [1] December 24 Francisco Pujol composer, dies at age 67. [1] December 28 Theodore Dreiser novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at age 74. [1] December 31 Donald Douglas II dies at age 40. [1] 1946 January 2 Joe Darling cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4), dies. [1] January 3 (0900 hours) At Wandsworth Prison in London, England, William Joyce is hanged. Known as "Lord Haw Haw", Joyce was an American citizen, who made regular wartime broadcasts over German radio, making him one of the most hated men in Great Britain. [1] [10] [37] January 4 Barney Oldfield daredevil, dies at age 67. [1] January 7 In Budapest, Hungary, former Hungarian Premier Laszlo de Bardossy is hanged. He had been sentenced to death for high treason by the Budapest Peoples Court in November. [10] January 9 Countee Cullen US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies in New York City, New York at age 42. [1] January 16 Johanna HC Albregt actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at age 71. [1] January 17 Gottfried Rudinger composer, dies at age 59. [1] January 23 Feliks Nowowiejski composer, dies at age 68. [1] Matteo Giulio Bartoli linguist, dies at age 72. [1] January 29 Harry L Hopkins US minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at age 55. [1] Sidney James Jones composer, dies at age 84. [1] February 1 Hans Betghe writer, dies at age 70. [1] February 4 Margarete Boie writer, dies. [1] February 5 George Arliss actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at age 77. [1] February 8 Miles Mander actor/director (Murder, Three Musketeers), dies at age 57. [1] February 11 The U.S. Military Tribunal in Japan convicts Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of the Japanese Army of ordering the Bataan Death March and condoning other wartime atrocities. He is sentenced to death by firing squad. [10] February 20 Hugh Allen musician, dies. [1] March 12 Philip Merivale dies at age 59. [1] In Budapest, Hungary, former Premier Ferenc Szalasi and four former Ministers are hanged as war criminals. [10] March 13 Abraham Bredius Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at age 90. [1] Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer, dies at age 69. [1] Werner von Blomberg German minister of Reichswehr, dies at age 67. [1] March 16 In The Hague, Netherlands, Maximilien Blokzijl is executed by firing squad, for betraying the nation as announcer of Nazi radio system in the Netherlands during the occupation. This is the first execution in the Netherlands since 1854. [10] Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at age 61. [1] March 19 Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at age 35. [1] In Budapest, Hungary, three members of Premier Ferenc Szalasy's government of October 1944 are hanged in the jail courtyard: Deputy Prime Minister Eugen Szoelloesi, Foreign Minister Baron Gabriel Kemeny, and Regent Council member Sandor Csia. [10] In Paris, France, Marcel Bucard, leader of the French Blue Shirt Fascists, is executed by firing squad. [10] March 22 Clemens A von Galen bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at age 68. [1] March 23 Alexandru Zirra composer, dies at age 62. [1] March 24 Alexander A Aljechin world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46), dies at age 53. [1] Gustaf Heintze composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 27 Gabriela Preissová writer, dies. [1] March 30 John S S P V Gort viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at age 59. [1] April 1 Noah Beery actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at age 62. [1] April 3 Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed. [1] April 5 Vincent Millie Youmans US composer (Tea For Two), dies from tuberculosis at age 47. [1] April 12 August Borms Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at age 67. [1] F Guicciardi writer, dies. [1] April 13 William Henry Bell composer, dies at age 72. [1] April 17 John Iddon cricketer (car accident five Tests for England 1934-35), dies. [1] April 21 John M Keynes English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at age 62. [1] Robert Graham cricketer (3 wickets for South Africa in two Tests 1898-99), dies. [1] April 22 Harlan Fiske Stone Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at age 73. [1] Lionel Atwill actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at age 61. [1] April 23 Jesus Castillo composer, dies at age 68. [1] April 25 Albert Knight cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies. [1] Joseph Vine cricketer (batted in two Tests England vs Australia 1911-12), dies. [1] April 26 Hermann Keyserling count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at age 65. [1] May 1 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow composer, dies at age 71. [1] Percy William Whitlock composer, dies at age 42. [1] May 7 Anton A Mussert engineer/NSB leader, executed. [1] Joe Humphries cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies. [1] May 25 Patty Smith Hill songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at age 78. [1] May 26 Friedrich A H von Waldeck monarch of Waldeck, dies. [1] June 10 Jack Johnson first black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident. [1] June 13 Edward Bowes radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at age 71. [1] July 2 Anthony Overton publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at age 81. [1] July 17 Mikhailovich resistance leader, executed by Tito regime. [1] July 27 Gertrude Stein dies. [5] September 16 Sir James Jeans dies. [1] October 11 Birth of Felton Perry actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death). [1] October 15 Hermann Göring, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison. [1] [10] October 16 (0000 to 0230 hours) Ten German leaders convicted at the Nuremberg Tribunal are hanged at Nuremberg. The bodies are cremated. [1] [10] Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian chancellor (1930s), dies at age 54. [1] December 6 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg composer, dies at age 63. [1] December 10 Damon Runyon US journalist/writer (Guys and Dolls), dies at age 66. [1] Walter Johnson great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at age 59. [1] December 12 Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Abelard and Heloïse), dies at age 67. [1] December 15 Conrad Haebler historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at age 89. [1] Gordon Frederic Norton composer, dies at age 77. [1] December 17 Constance [Clara] Garnett Russian-English translator, dies at age 84. [1] December 25 William Claude Dunkenfield (W.C. Fields), writer/comedian/actor (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies from pneumonia at age 67. [1] [5] December 28 Carrie Jacobs Bond American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at age 85. [1] December 30 Charles Wakefield Cadman composer, dies at age 65. [1] December 31 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud Dutch actor, dies at age 89. [1]