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Other People Who Died in World Wars

Name these people who died, either directly or indirectly, as a result of World War I or II, but were not primarily known for their role in the war.
Whether someone is primarily known for the war or not is sometimes debatable, I had to use my own judgement.
People are ordered by number of Wikipedia languages
Quiz by Gumbledalf
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Last updated: April 12, 2023
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description
death
person
World War I
German chemist, 1907 Nobel Prize for fermentation
hit by shell fragment in Battle of Mărășești
Eduard Buchner
German expressionist painter and printmaker
struck by splinters during Battle of Verdun
Franz Marc
Italian futurist painter and sculptor
trampled by a horse during training
Umberto Boccioni
British physicist, confirmed concept of atomic numbers
shot during the Battle of Gallipoli
Henry Moseley
World War II
dictator of fascist Italy
captured & executed by Italian partisans
Benito Mussolini
French writer (The Little Prince) and aviator
plane crashed near coast, possibly shot down
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
German chemist, Nobel Prize for synthesis of haemin
suicide after his lab was bombed
Hans Fischer
German Lutheran pastor & theologian
hanged in a concentration camp
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
American musician & big band founder
plane disppeared en route to army concert
Glenn Miller
German nun, 1 of 6 patron saints of Europe
murdered in Auschwitz gas chamber
Edith Stein
Polish children's author and pedagogue
murdered in Treblinka gas chamber
Janusz Korczak
mistress of Il Duce
captured & executed by Italian partisans
Clara Petacci
French historian, expert on medieval France
executed after aiding the Resistance
Marc Bloch
eldest child of Joseph Stalin
ran into electric fence at concentration camp
Yakov Dzugashvili
fascist Italian politician, Foreign Minister
executed for treason in Italy
Galeazzo Ciano
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Level 85
Apr 12, 2023
Great idea for a quiz, though I've only heard of three of them!
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Level 71
Jun 4, 2023
Thanks! Yeah, the idea seemed great at first, but when I did the research there weren't actually many well-known people in that category.