Famous Deaths in May 1944

May 9 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86
May 11 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
May 12 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
May 16 George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
May 16 Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
May 16 Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
May 16 George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
May 19 Godfrey Wilson, British Anthropologist of social change and colonial problems in Africa, commits suicide as a conscientious objector in WW II
May 26 C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies
May 26 Robert van Spaendonck, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 27
May 28 Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42
May 30 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79