- January 12
- Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at age 40. [1]
- January 16
- Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at age 88. [1]
- January 23
- American critic Alexander Woolcott suffers a heart attack during a radio show, and dies four hours later. [1] [467]
- January 24
- John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies. [1]
- January 26
- Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, dies in Saratovv labour camp. [1]
- February 4
- Frank Calder, first NHL president, dies. [1]
- February 5
- Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Germans. [1]
- February 6
- HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at age 71. [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]
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- 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]
- Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at age 24. [1]
- Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded. [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, cricket player (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 23
- André Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at age 72. [1]
- March 27
- Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash. [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]
- 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]
- April 18
- Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down over the Solomon Islands. [10]
- April 19
- Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, is beheaded. [1]
- Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, is beheaded. [1]
- Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, is beheaded. [1]
- April 29
- Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at age 56. [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]
- May 8
- Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, is killed. [1]
- May 10
- André Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, is hanged. [1]
- Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, is hanged. [1]
- Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, is hanged. [1]
- May 17
- Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at age 65. [1]
- May 22
- Death of US first lady Helen Taft. [412.84]
- May 26
- Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at age 49. [1]
- June 2
- Actor Leslie Howard is killed, when Germans shoot down his plane. [1]
- July 4
- General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of Poland's government in exile, is killed in a plane crash off Gibraltar. [10] [648.20]
- August 28
- Death of Czar Boris III of Bulgaria. Son Simeon is declared Czar Simeon II. [626.218]
- December 7
- John Bouber [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at age 22. [1]
- December 15
- Death of Thomas (Fats) Waller at age 39 of natural causes while travelling aboard the Santa Fe Express train in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; pianist and songwriter ("Honeysuckle Rose", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Blue Turning Grey Over You", "Hot Chocolate"). [457]
- December 23
- Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at age 64. [1]
- December 29
- William H Singer, American 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 player (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wicket All time great), dies. [1]
- January 4
- Kaj Munk [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies. [1]
- January 11
- Death of Galeazzo, count of Cortellazzo Ciano, by execution in Germany; Italian politician. [1] [995.39]
- January 14
- Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about age 74. [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
- 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, cricket player (brother of Rockley, two Tests for England 1896), dies. [1]
- February 17
- Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at age 64. [1]
- February 24
- Leo Hendrick A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (Bakelite), dies at age 80. [1]
- March 5
- Max Jacob, French writer, dies in German concentration camp at age 67. [1]
- March 10
- David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at age 52. [1]
- March 15
- Otto von Below, German commandant (WWI), dies at age 86. [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 is killed by Germans. [1]
- Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at age 75. [1]
- March 31
- Mineichi Koga, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies. [1]
- April 4
- John Peale Bishop, American poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at age 51. [1]
- April 5
- Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at age 90. [1]
- Willy Derby [Dieben], singer ("Hello Bandoeng"), dies. [1]
- April 17
- J T Hearne, cricket player (took 49 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies. [1]
- April 19
- Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 1927), dies at age 44. [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]
- May 26
- C M Francois, cricket player (WWII, 252 runs in five Tests for South Africa), dies. [1]
- May 30
- Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at age 79. [1]
- June 17
- Death of Samuel W. Brown at age 64 in North Tonawanda, New York; original source of five US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coins. [656.25]
- 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 11
- German Colonel Baron Alexis von Roenne is executed by German 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 of France. [10]
- October 14
- German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide at age 52 rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler. [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
- Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at age 34. [1]
- Vassily V Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at age 78. [1]
- December 15
- Death of bandleader/composer Glenn Miller ("Chattanooga Choo-Choo"), at age 40, in a plane crash between London and Paris. [1] [392.41]
- December 20
- Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at age 70. [1]
- December 22
- Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at age 60. [1]
- December 30
- Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1915), dies at age 78. [1]
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