January-June

January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
January 14
- Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist (b. 1892)
- Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
February 1 - Herbert Stothart, American composer (b. 1885)
February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
February 17 - Ellery Harding Clark, American athlete (b. 1874)
February 21 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
March 7 - Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (b. 1884)
March 11 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
March 17 - Felix Bressart, German-American actor (b. 1892)
March 25 - Jack Kapp, president of the U.S. branch of Decca Records (b. 1901)
March 28 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer (b. 1889)
March 30
- Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- Prince Harald of Denmark (b. 1876)
April 6 - Seymour Hicks, British actor (b. 1871)
April 8 - Kathy Fiscus, girl who became famous after falling down a well in San Marino, California (b. 1945)
April 15 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
April 18 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 22 - Charles B. Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
April 28 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
May 9 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
May 22
- James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892)
- Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
May 23 - Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (b. 1872)
May 27 - Robert Ripley, American creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
June 14 - Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
June 19 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian/Pakistani Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
June 25 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)

[edit]July-December

July 9 - Fritz Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
July 18 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
July 26 - Linda Arvidson, American actress (b. 1884)
August 9
- Gustavus M. Blech, German-American physician and surgeon (b. 1870)
- Harry Davenport, American actor (b. 1866)
- George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (b. 1858)
August 16 - Margaret Mitchell, American writer (Gone With The Wind) (b. 1900)
August 17 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
August 18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
August 23 - Domingo Díaz Arosemena, President of Panama (b. 1875)
August 30 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
September 7 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) (b. 1864)
September 10 - Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894)
September 13 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
September 14 - Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German Resistance figure (b. 1901)
September 18 - Frank Morgan, American actor, The Wizard of Oz (b. 1890)
September 19
- Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- George Shiels, Irish writer (b. 1886)
- Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
September 20 - Richard Dix, American actor (b. 1893)
September 22 - Sam Wood, American director (b. 1883)
October 1 - Buddy Clark, American singer (b. 1911)
October 14 - Fritz Leiber, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
October 15 - Elmer Clifton, American actor (b. 1890)
October 27
- Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
- Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
October 31 - Edward Stettinius, Jr., U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1900)
November - Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b. 1872)
November 2
- Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
- William Desmond, Irish actor (b. 1878)
November 3 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American philanthropist (b. 1861)
November 5 - Abdolhossein Hazhir, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1899)
November 15 (executed):
- Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mohandas Gandhi(b. 1910)
- Narayan Apte, Hindu activist, Godse's accomplice (b. 1911)
November 25 - Bill Robinson, American dancer (b. 1878)
November 30 - Irene Vanbrugh, English actress (b. 1872)
December 3 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (b. 1876)
December 6 - Leadbelly, American blues musician (b. 1888)
December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
December 16 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)

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