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Paul Chack
1876–1945
writer, Officer of the French Navy, soldier
Official cause
gunshot wound
Osman Cemal Kaygılı
1890–1945
writer
Official cause
stomach cancer
Jüri Uluots
1890–1945
politician, lawyer, journalist
Official cause
stomach cancer
Rudolf Viest
1890–1945
soldier, military officer, politician
Official cause
hanging to death
Angas Parsons
1872–1945
politician, barrister, pamphleteer
Official cause
liver cirrhosis
Ramblin' Thomas
1902–1945
singer, guitarist, songwriter
Official cause
tuberculosis
Matthias Göring
1879–1945
physician, psychiatrist, psychotherapist
Official cause
dysentery
Chōmo Hanashiro
1869–1945
karateka, politician
Official cause
World War II
Chikahiko Koizumi
1884–1945
military physician, military personnel, politician
Official cause
seppuku
Friedrich Weleminsky
1868–1945
microbiologist
Official cause
pneumonia
Vladimir Yermolaev
1909–1944
military flight engineer, engineer
Official cause
typhus
Nikolai Kochin
1901–1944
mathematician, physicist
Official cause
sarcoma
Bernard Świerczyna
1914–1944
military officer
Official cause
hanging to death
Romain Rolland
1866–1944
writer, playwright, essayist
Official cause
tuberculosis
Juliusz Gardan
1901–1944
film director, screenwriter
Official cause
tuberculosis
Shūhō Yamakawa
1898–1944
printmaker, painter, artist
Official cause
intracranial hemorrhage
Amy Beach
1867–1944
pianist, composer
Official cause
cardiac arrest
Pierre Bonny
1895–1944
police officer, military personnel
Official cause
gunshot wound
Henri Lafont
1902–1944
torturer, wartime collaborator
Official cause
gunshot wound
Sára Salkaházi
1899–1944
journalist, nun, bookbinder
Official cause
gunshot wound
Betsie ten Boom
1885–1944
resistance fighter
Official cause
pernicious anemia
Glenn Miller
1904–1944
jazz musician, bandleader, composer
Official cause
aviation accident
Lupe Vélez
1908–1944
film actor, stage actor, television actor
Official cause
barbiturate overdose
Wassily Kandinsky
1866–1944
painter, university teacher, art theorist
Official cause
stroke