Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II

Czech chess player (1906–1944)

Russian playwright (1904–1941)

Yugoslav Partisan leader (1916–1943)

British zoologist and museum director (1863–1944)

Soviet chess player (1894–1941)

Polish poet and avant-garde pioneer

One of the founder of Irgun (1910–1941)

Polish soldier (1925–1943)

Soviet army general (1890－1943)

Italian assassin (1900-1943)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1920-1943)

Russian actor and singer (1876-1941)

British tug of war competitor (1881–1945)

Italian admiral (1888-1943)

Hero of the Soviet Union (1923-1943)

Czech-British chess player (1908-1944)

Romanian general (1884-1945)

Polish mathematician (1851-1939)

Soviet military personnel

Soviet scientist (1885-1941)

Belgian bicycle racer (1912–1940)

Polish rower (1906–1939)

Norwegian footballer (1898-1942)

Polish chess player

Soviet military personnel (1906–1943)

Polish writer and poet (1911-1941)

artist and militant suffragette in the UK

actor (1901-1939)

journalist, novelist (1901–1944)

French writer of Greek origin, traveler, war correspondent, and decorated Red Cross nurse

French racing driver active during the first half of the 20th century

Ukrainian Soviet writer (1892–1941)

Soviet lieutenant general (1899–1944)

Soviet lieutenant general (1893–1941)

politician (1890-1944)

Russian architect

Polish lawyer and diplomat (1866–1944)

French actor (1857-1940)

American meteorologist and air force officer (1908–1940)

Italian admiral

Swedish actress (1915–1941)