Notable Deaths - 1940
1940 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865) |
Jan 2 |
Richard Belfield, Galloping On |
Jan 2 |
John Graham Spacey, Thank You, Jeeves! |
Jan 4 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 |
Jan 4 |
Flora Finch, A Cure for Pokeritis |
Jan 5 |
Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46 |
Jan 5 |
Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885) |
Jan 5 |
Jack Roseleigh, Singing River |
Jan 5 |
Dorothy Mackaye, Ladies They Talk About |
Jan 6 |
William Hughes Curran, The Freshie |
Jan 7 |
Wilhelmina Schwab-Welman, Geeft ons kracht |
Jan 7 |
A.F. Mantz, The Last Card |
Jan 10 |
Al Hart, Out of the Clouds |
Jan 10 |
Roy Gardner, You Can't Beat the Rap! |
Jan 11 |
Konstancja Bednarzewska, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
Jan 12 |
Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 |
Jan 12 |
Maude Turner Gordon, Sally |
Jan 14 |
Gudrun Houlberg, The Leap to Death |
Jan 14 |
John Hammond Dailey, Counsellor at Law |
Jan 16 |
Earl Dwire, Blue Steel |
Jan 17 |
Kai Paaske, Solskinsdalen |
Jan 18 |
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 |
Jan 18 |
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Legenda Tatr |
Jan 18 |
Lau Ezerman, Lentelied |
Jan 20 |
Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861) |
Jan 21 |
Otis Harlan, A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Jan 22 |
Magda Lena, Die vertauschte Braut |
Jan 22 |
Edwin Carewe, Evangeline |
Jan 22 |
E. Alyn Warren, The Mysterious Mr. Wong |
Jan 24 |
Emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52 |
Jan 24 |
Emile van Bosch, Klokslag twaalf |
Jan 25 |
Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899) |
Jan 25 |
John Rand, The Circus |
Jan 27 |
Isaak Babel, Bezhin lug |
Jan 31 |
René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56 |
Feb 1 |
Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888) |
Feb 1 |
H.C. Chisholm, The Gold Rush |
Feb 1 |
Philip Francis Nowlan, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century |
Feb 2 |
Mikhail Koltsov, Life Is Beautiful |
Feb 2 |
Vsevolod Meyerhold, The Picture of Dorian Grey |
Feb 3 |
Stanislaw Roman Lewandowski, Kult ciala |
Feb 4 |
Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895) |
Feb 6 |
Ivo Puhonny's, The Song Is Ended |
Feb 7 |
Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1894-95), dies |
Feb 7 |
Karel Schleichert, Seduction |
Feb 8 |
William Law, After the Thin Man |
Feb 8 |
Edward Ullman, Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery |
Feb 9 |
Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857) |
Feb 10 |
Joel Jansson, Ådalens poesi |
Feb 11 |
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies |
Feb 11 |
John Buchan, The 39 Steps |
Feb 11 |
Geoffrey Malins, London Melody |
Feb 11 |
J.H. Rosny Sr., Quest for Fire |
Feb 12 |
Svend Aggerholm, Livets blændværk |
Feb 12 |
Hugh E. Wright, Nothing Else Matters |
Feb 14 |
Ilmari Kivinen, Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin |
Feb 14 |
Harry Tate, Motoring |
Feb 17 |
Gus Elen, Wait Till the Work Comes Round |
Feb 18 |
Rudy Wiedoeft, Darn Tootin |
Feb 20 |
George Periolat, The Mark of Zorro |
Feb 21 |
Raffles Bill, Viktor and Viktoria |
Feb 23 |
John Tyke, Circle Canyon |
Feb 23 |
Viktor Léon, The Merry Widow |
Feb 27 |
Peter Behrens, German architect, dies |
Feb 27 |
Zofia Czaplinska, My Uncle from America |
Feb 28 |
Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81 |
Feb 29 |
Edward Frederic Benson, novelist, dies |
Feb 29 |
Josef Swickard, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Feb 29 |
Robert S. Abbott, The Millionaire |
Feb 29 |
E.F. Benson, Dead of Night |
Feb 29 |
Nyrki Tapiovaara, One Man's Fate |
Feb 29 |
Prins Aage, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Feb 29 |
F.N. Murphy, Lady Windermere's Fan |
Mar 1 |
Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73 |
Mar 1 |
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878) |
Mar 1 |
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan |
Mar 3 |
Philip Wood, Our Town |
Mar 4 |
Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860) |
Mar 4 |
Hamlin Garland, Ranger of the Big Pines |
Mar 4 |
Charles Thurston, The Chaser |
Mar 5 |
Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868) |
Mar 5 |
Ilona Cs. Aczél, A nagymama |
Mar 5 |
Maxine Elliott, A Doll for the Baby |
Mar 5 |
C.B. Steele, The Gold Rush |
Mar 7 |
Edwin Markham, Lincoln, the Man of the People |
Mar 8 |
Philip Lonergan, Her Life and His |
Mar 9 |
Louis Levy, Madame de Thèbes |
Mar 10 |
Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68 |
Mar 10 |
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891) |
Mar 10 |
Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future |
Mar 10 |
Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Loving Couples |
Mar 11 |
John Monk Saunders, Wings |
Mar 11 |
Julius McVicker, The Phantom President |
Mar 12 |
Ralph V. Roberts, Der Tod und die Liebe |
Mar 12 |
Ralph Arthur Roberts, Murder for Sale |
Mar 13 |
La Jana, The Stars Shine |
Mar 13 |
Caleb Porter, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot |
Mar 15 |
Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies |
Mar 15 |
Robert Leffler, Im Schatten des Glücks |
Mar 16 |
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81 |
Mar 16 |
Selma Lagerlöf, The Phantom Carriage |
Mar 19 |
Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54 |
Mar 20 |
Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860) |
Mar 23 |
Takitarô Minakami, An Inn at Osaka |
Mar 25 |
Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51 |
Mar 25 |
William Bach, The Witch |
Mar 26 |
Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873) |
Mar 26 |
James R. Cowan, The Cocoanuts |
Mar 26 |
Spiridon Louis, Berlin 1936: Games of the XI Olympiad |
Mar 27 |
Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872) |
Mar 27 |
Lee Scott, Broncho Billy Evens Matters |
Mar 28 |
Jenö Faragó, Casanova |
Mar 29 |
Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916) |
Mar 29 |
Charles McComas, The Chicken Chasers |
Mar 29 |
Felix Modjeska, The Motor Boat Bandits |
Mar 30 |
Jay Smith, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin |
Mar 30 |
Monte Westmore, Gone with the Wind |
Mar 30 |
Franciszek Zyndram-Mucha, Manewry floty polskiej w Gdyni |
Mar 30 |
Walter Miller, The Mothering Heart |
Mar 31 |
Louise Dunlap, Tess of the Storm Country |
Apr 2 |
Otto Himm, Big Moments from Little Pictures |
Apr 3 |
Earl Askam, Flash Gordon |
Apr 4 |
Xaver Terofal, Almenrausch und Edelweiss |
Apr 4 |
Fanny Terofal-Mittermayr, Almenrausch und Edelweiss |
Apr 5 |
Carlo Bentsen, Panserbasse |
Apr 5 |
John Wray, All Quiet on the Western Front |
Apr 6 |
Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49 |
Apr 7 |
William Faversham, Arizona Days |
Apr 7 |
Gordon Morris, 6 Hours to Live |
Apr 8 |
Harlan Knight, The Critical Age |
Apr 9 |
Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies |
Apr 9 |
Pauline de Palla, The Midnight Girl |
Apr 9 |
William Foster, The Railroad Porter |
Apr 9 |
Albert Taylor, College Scandal |
Apr 10 |
J.G. Hawks, 'Blue Blazes' Rawden |
Apr 10 |
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, The Money Moon |
Apr 11 |
Hap Depew, The Devil's Brother |
Apr 12 |
John Bragdon, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages |
Apr 12 |
Honore Morrow, Seven Alone |
Apr 15 |
Anita Hendrie, The Golden Louis |
Apr 17 |
Katharina Schratt, Der Ochsenkrieg |
Apr 17 |
Vsevolod Ulianoff, She |
Apr 18 |
Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies |
Apr 18 |
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies |
Apr 18 |
Robert Hale, What Happened to Harkness? |
Apr 18 |
Florrie Forde, Say It with Flowers |
Apr 18 |
Norman Selby, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl |
Apr 18 |
Carl Lauritzen, The End of the World |
Apr 20 |
Anne Harriman-Vanderbilt, The Millionaires' Playground |
Apr 21 |
Timothy O'Donnell, Love My Dog |
Apr 21 |
Richard Robles, Lost Horizon |
Apr 23 |
Ida Carloni Talli, The Rival Engineers |
Apr 23 |
Narayanrao D. Sarpotdar, Jai Vijay |
Apr 24 |
S.S. Simon, The Barker |
Apr 24 |
Mrs. Norman T. Chaney, Railroadin' |
Apr 26 |
Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 |
Apr 27 |
Imre Magyari, Rozmaring |
Apr 29 |
Bruno Lessing, Aschenbrödel |
Apr 29 |
Josef A. Pasternack, The King Steps Out |
Apr 30 |
Patsy Dougherty, World Series Baseball Game |
Apr 30 |
Frans Engström, Sylvi |
May 1 |
Arthur Whetsol, Check and Double Check |
May 1 |
Emil Höfer, Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren |
May 1 |
Mrs. Roos, A Day's Pleasure |
May 2 |
Ethel Watts Mumford, Sick Abed |
May 3 |
Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84 |
May 6 |
Ernest Gillet, The Dancing Masters |
May 7 |
George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859) |
May 7 |
George Lansbury, The Man with Two Faces |
May 8 |
Alexander Black, Miss Jerry |
May 9 |
Dallas M. Fitzgerald, My Lady of Whims |
May 10 |
Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 |
May 10 |
Bert Longenecker, Desert Phantom |
May 10 |
Francis Powers, Sea Mates |
May 12 |
Burgess Beall, The Iron Mask |
May 14 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies |
May 14 |
Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies |
May 14 |
Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49 |
May 14 |
Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38 |
May 14 |
Emma Goldman, Good Enough for the People |
May 14 |
Beatrice Coleman, It Happened in Hollywood |
May 14 |
Ogden Crane, The Lost Freight Car |
May 15 |
Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75 |
May 15 |
Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63 |
May 17 |
Lewis Schooler, Deceit |
May 18 |
A.B. DeComathiere, The Black King |
May 18 |
Clara Allen, The Chosen Prince, or The Friendship of David and Jonathan |
May 20 |
Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies |
May 20 |
Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies |
May 20 |
Francis Palmer Tilton, The Dark Angel |
May 20 |
Sibyl Harris, All This, and Heaven Too |
May 20 |
Verner von Heidenstam, Father Bom |
May 23 |
Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies |
May 23 |
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 |
May 23 |
George O'Neil, Intermezzo: A Love Story |
May 25 |
Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873) |
May 25 |
Gladys Unger, Sylvia Scarlett |
May 25 |
William M. Conselman, The Little Colonel |
May 25 |
Joseph De Grasse, Heart o' the Hills |
May 25 |
Ingeborg Gandrup, Tordenstenene |
May 28 |
Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70 |
May 28 |
Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65 |
May 28 |
Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53 |
May 28 |
Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868) |
May 28 |
George Durham, Texas Rangers |
May 28 |
Hjalmar Alvar, Caros død |
May 28 |
Randle Ayrton, The Manxman |
May 28 |
Walter Connolly, It Happened One Night |
May 29 |
Mary Navarro, Babette |
May 30 |
Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 |
May 30 |
Roger Capellani, Le mari rêvé |
May 30 |
Doc Dearborn, It Happened in Hollywood |
May 30 |
L.A. French, Our Relations |
Jun 1 |
Percy Higginson, A Dash Through the Clouds |
Jun 1 |
Ali Hubert, The Life of Emile Zola |
Jun 2 |
Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies |
Jun 2 |
Max Graf, Half-a-Dollar Bill |
Jun 6 |
E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 |
Jun 6 |
E.E. Clive, Bride of Frankenstein |
Jun 6 |
Florence Roberts, Babes in Toyland |
Jun 6 |
Henry Otho, Clipped Wings |
Jun 7 |
James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39 |
Jun 7 |
James Hall, Hell's Angels |
Jun 7 |
Eugene Burr, The Girl with No Regrets |
Jun 7 |
Willy Bille, Plat eller krone |
Jun 8 |
Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer, dies at 69 |
Jun 8 |
Frederick Shepherd Converse, Bread and Circus |
Jun 10 |
Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend |
Jun 11 |
F.D. Marchetti, Small Time Crooks |
Jun 13 |
Babette Devrient, Ssanin |
Jun 13 |
George Fitzmaurice, The Son of the Sheik |
Jun 14 |
Alexander Hubert, Carmen |
Jun 15 |
Ernst Weiß, Mein Vater, meine Frau und meine Geliebte |
Jun 15 |
Charles Lamy, The Fall of the House of Usher |
Jun 16 |
DuBose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies |
Jun 16 |
Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25 |
Jun 16 |
DuBose Heyward, There's Something About Mary |
Jun 17 |
Arthur Harden, |
Jun 18 |
Maurice Moscovitch, The Great Dictator |
Jun 19 |
Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40 |
Jun 19 |
Robert Wildhack, Broadway Melody of 1936 |
Jun 19 |
Lugné-Poe, La dame aux camélias |
Jun 19 |
Mildred June, Crazy to Act |
Jun 19 |
Maurice Jaubert, L'Atalante |
Jun 20 |
Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 |
Jun 20 |
Charley Chase, On the Wrong Trek |
Jun 21 |
Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies |
Jun 21 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40 |
Jun 21 |
W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49 |
Jun 21 |
Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881) |
Jun 21 |
Ernst Dumcke, Die Seitensprünge des Herrn Blohm |
Jun 21 |
Smedley Butler, American Secrets |
Jun 21 |
Walter Hasenclever, Anna Christie |
Jun 22 |
M A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies |
Jun 22 |
Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], German Meteorologist and Climatologist who developed the Köppen climate classification system for the regions of the world, dies at 93 |
Jun 22 |
Ernst Spitz, World and the Flesh |
Jun 22 |
Willi Münzenberg, Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? |
Jun 25 |
George Hackathorne, The Last of the Mohicans |
Jun 28 |
Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44 |
Jun 29 |
Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 |
Jun 29 |
Paul Klee, Paul Klee |
Jul 1 |
Ben Turpin, Saps at Sea |
Jul 2 |
Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies |
Jul 2 |
Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69 |
Jul 2 |
Guido Seeber, The Golem |
Jul 2 |
Adrien Lamy, Le prince des Six Jours |
Jul 2 |
Philip Yale Drew, The Holdup Man |
Jul 2 |
Louis LaVoie, Magnificent Obsession |
Jul 3 |
George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies |
Jul 4 |
Ferenc Vendrey, Keserü szerelem |
Jul 4 |
Marie Larisch, Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich |
Jul 4 |
Lex Neal, Speedy |
Jul 5 |
Carl Einstein, Der Bebuquin - Rendezvous mit Carl Einstein |
Jul 7 |
Dagmar Parmas, Ulkosaarelaiset |
Jul 8 |
M.W. Rale, The Mysteries of Myra |
Jul 8 |
Granville Bates, My Favorite Wife |
Jul 9 |
Bernard Siegel, Laugh, Clown, Laugh |
Jul 10 |
Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64 |
Jul 11 |
Italo Pacchioni, Funerali di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano |
Jul 12 |
John Hatton, Our Gang |
Jul 12 |
Mrs. Richard Mansfield, Beau Brummel |
Jul 14 |
Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies |
Jul 15 |
Donald Calthrop, dies at 52 |
Jul 15 |
Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 |
Jul 15 |
Robert Wadlow, Freaks Uncensored! |
Jul 15 |
Mary Wong, The Good Earth |
Jul 15 |
Donald Calthrop, Scrooge |
Jul 17 |
Donald McNamee, Fashion Madness |
Jul 18 |
J. Edwin Robbins, A Society Sensation |
Jul 19 |
Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai |
Jul 20 |
Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide |
Jul 20 |
William Arnold, The Overland Express |
Jul 21 |
Sarada Ukil, Prem Sanyas |
Jul 23 |
Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, When the Cook Fell Ill |
Jul 24 |
Carlton Griffin, Girl Shy |
Jul 24 |
Frank Redman, The Perils of Pauline |
Jul 26 |
Kurt Kluge, The Higher Command |
Jul 27 |
Luciano Molinari, La scala di seta |
Jul 28 |
Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66 |
Jul 28 |
Leonard Trainor, Tempest Cody Hits the Trail |
Jul 28 |
Patricia Rooney, The Three Diamonds |
Jul 29 |
Saxon Kling, The Indestructible Wife |
Jul 31 |
Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel |
Jul 31 |
Joseph Brotherton, Tarzan the Fearless |
Aug 1 |
William Ehfe, The Best Man |
Aug 1 |
Gus Meins, Babes in Toyland |
Aug 3 |
Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide |
Aug 3 |
Harvey Cunningham, The Show of Shows |
Aug 3 |
William Mathieson, You Can't Have Everything |
Aug 3 |
Egill Rostrup, Kan disse Øjne lyve? |
Aug 4 |
Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies |
Aug 4 |
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Samson and Delilah |
Aug 5 |
Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 |
Aug 5 |
Talbot Mundy, King of the Khyber Rifles |
Aug 5 |
Johannes Buchholtz, Susanne |
Aug 5 |
Bird Millman, The Law of the Yukon |
Aug 5 |
Frederick Albert Cook, Dr. Cook at Copenhagen |
Aug 8 |
Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892) |
Aug 8 |
Dane Coolidge, Rimrock Jones |
Aug 8 |
Jasper Ewing Brady, The Man She Brought Back |
Aug 9 |
Walter Law, Whoopee! |
Aug 9 |
William Royle, Drums of Fu Manchu |
Aug 10 |
Hans Caspar von Zobeltitz, Kora Terry |
Aug 10 |
Dorville, Don Quichotte |
Aug 12 |
Ulrich Bigalke, Deutsche Siege in drei Erdteilen |
Aug 13 |
George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75 |
Aug 13 |
George C. Pearce, The Pointed Finger |
Aug 15 |
Gene Morgan, Blonde Venus |
Aug 16 |
Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries |
Aug 16 |
Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 |
Aug 17 |
Nick Copeland, Lodge Night |
Aug 17 |
William M.L. Fiske, White Heat |
Aug 18 |
Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875) |
Aug 18 |
James Lee Davis, Cimarron |
Aug 18 |
Joe Neary, Let 'Er Run |
Aug 20 |
Leon Trotsky, The Assassination of Trotsky |
Aug 21 |
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader at 62 |
Aug 21 |
Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68 |
Aug 21 |
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863) |
Aug 21 |
Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882) |
Aug 21 |
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Casey at the Bat |
Aug 22 |
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851) |
Aug 22 |
James Quinn, Come and Get It! |
Aug 24 |
Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80 |
Aug 24 |
Paul Nipkow, Bunte Fernseh-Fibel |
Aug 24 |
Edna Waldron, The Merry Widow |
Aug 25 |
Ethan Allen, The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House |
Aug 29 |
Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77 |
Aug 29 |
John Binns, The Grapes of Wrath |
Aug 30 |
J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) |
Aug 30 |
Earl Taggert, The Sin of Madelon Claudet |
Aug 30 |
Errol Taggart, The Public Pays |
Aug 31 |
Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58 |
Aug 31 |
Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871) |
Sep 1 |
Glenn Belt, The Final Extra |
Sep 1 |
George Utell, An Aerial Joy Ride |
Sep 2 |
Eddie Collins, Drums Along the Mohawk |
Sep 2 |
Caryl S. Fleming, Beating Back |
Sep 3 |
Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59 |
Sep 4 |
Arthur Stone, Fury |
Sep 4 |
Helene Chadwick, Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes |
Sep 4 |
Ludwik Fritsche, Moralnosc pani Dulskiej |
Sep 5 |
Eugenie Forde, Wild and Willie |
Sep 7 |
Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies |
Sep 7 |
Hal Walters, The Four Feathers |
Sep 7 |
Leon F. Douglass, Cupid Angling |
Sep 8 |
Hemmo Kallio, Anna-Liisa |
Sep 8 |
Lila Leslie, A Woman Reclaimed |
Sep 10 |
Edward LeSaint, Modern Times |
Sep 12 |
Henri Lavedan, The Assassination of the Duke de Guise |
Sep 14 |
Georgia Coleman, Episode #1.5189 |
Sep 15 |
Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37 |
Sep 16 |
William Anthony McGuire, The Great Ziegfeld |
Sep 21 |
Jack Winn, Blood and Sand |
Sep 22 |
Jack Adair, The Drag-Net |
Sep 22 |
Rudolf Medek, Ohnivý drak |
Sep 23 |
Robert Hitchins, |
Sep 23 |
Blanche Craig, The Magic Cup |
Sep 24 |
Grover Jones, Trouble in Paradise |
Sep 25 |
Marguerite Clark, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch |
Sep 26 |
Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48 |
Sep 26 |
Walter Benjamin, Film socialisme |
Sep 27 |
Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 |
Sep 27 |
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857) |
Sep 27 |
Richard Lindström, Röda dagen |
Sep 27 |
Grace Goodall, Top Flat |
Sep 28 |
Earl Hurd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Sep 28 |
Antal Farkas, Jön az öcsém |
Sep 29 |
Courtney Ryley Cooper, The Plainsman |
Sep 30 |
Walter Kollo, composer, dies at 62 |
Sep 30 |
Walter Kollo, Tre små piger |
Oct 4 |
André Deed, An Extraordinary Dislocation |
Oct 4 |
Olive Young, Daxia Gan Fengchi |
Oct 4 |
Arthur Swanstrom, Blue Jasmine |
Oct 5 |
Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, dies at 40 |
Oct 5 |
Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859) |
Oct 5 |
Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America |
Oct 5 |
Silvestre Revueltas, Sin City |
Oct 5 |
Max Ferner, Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein |
Oct 5 |
Joseph Menchen, Das Mirakel |
Oct 6 |
Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55 |
Oct 6 |
Ernst Fastbom, Halta Lena och Vindögda Per |
Oct 7 |
Maurice Leloir, The Iron Mask |
Oct 8 |
Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 |
Oct 9 |
Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865). |
Oct 9 |
Wilfred Grenfell, The Viking |
Oct 10 |
Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876) |
Oct 10 |
Berton Churchill, Stagecoach |
Oct 11 |
Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882) |
Oct 11 |
Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860) |
Oct 11 |
James Spottswood, Thunderbolt |
Oct 11 |
Charles Ogle, A Christmas Carol |
Oct 11 |
Julia Håkansson, Elisabet |
Oct 12 |
Tom Mix, American actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60 |
Oct 12 |
Ruth Harriet Louise, The Demi-Bride |
Oct 12 |
James Bradbury Sr., Badgered |
Oct 12 |
Tom Mix, Local Color on the A-1 Ranch |
Oct 14 |
Helen Simpson, Sabotage |
Oct 15 |
Lluís Companys, El ejército del pueblo nace |
Oct 16 |
Paul Guidé, La bâillonnée - Épisode 7: Le droit de la mer |
Oct 16 |
Marguerite St. John, The Laughing Lady |
Oct 17 |
George Davis, World Series Baseball Game |
Oct 17 |
María Fernanda Ibáñez, La madrina del diablo |
Oct 18 |
Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65 |
Oct 18 |
Athole Stewart, The Spy in Black |
Oct 19 |
Helen Lackaye, The Knife |
Oct 20 |
Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885) |
Oct 21 |
William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866) |
Oct 23 |
George B. Cortelyou, William McKinley at Canton, Ohio |
Oct 24 |
Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74 |
Oct 24 |
Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism) dies at 75 |
Oct 24 |
Hans Kyser, Faust |
Oct 24 |
Victor Hollaender, Sumurun |
Oct 26 |
Árpád Pásztor, Keserü szerelem |
Oct 26 |
M.J. Hagerman, The Social Slave |
Oct 26 |
Marshall Hageman, Torchy Gets Her Man |
Oct 26 |
Joe De Stefani, The Man They Could Not Hang |
Oct 27 |
Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72 |
Oct 27 |
Fini Henriques, Fini Henriques |
Oct 28 |
Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 |
Oct 30 |
Carlos Avril, Le récit du capitaine |
Nov 1 |
Willi Schur, The Captain from Köpenick |
Nov 1 |
Richard Allen, Where Shore and Water Meet |
Nov 3 |
Lewis Hine, Days of Heaven |
Nov 3 |
Manuel Azaña, The Spanish Earth |
Nov 4 |
Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60 |
Nov 4 |
Arthur Rostron, Deep Inside the Titanic |
Nov 4 |
Harry Bernard, Saps at Sea |
Nov 7 |
Sarah Addington, And So They Were Married |
Nov 8 |
Georg Blickingberg, Unga hjärtan |
Nov 9 |
Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies of bowel cancer at 71 |
Nov 9 |
Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876) |
Nov 9 |
Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill: The Darkest Hours |
Nov 9 |
Gunnar Tolnæs, A Trip to Mars |
Nov 12 |
Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 |
Nov 12 |
Alejandro García Caturla, The Lost City |
Nov 13 |
George F. Hutchins, The Monster Walks |
Nov 14 |
Melvin Lang, Doomed to Die |
Nov 16 |
Heinz Reichert, Strauss' Great Waltz |
Nov 16 |
Albert Engström, Rospiggar |
Nov 17 |
Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882) |
Nov 17 |
Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879) |
Nov 17 |
Sylvia Ashton, Greed |
Nov 17 |
Eric Gill, St Paul |
Nov 19 |
Frank Wortman, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages |
Nov 19 |
Molly Shafer, The Return |
Nov 20 |
Harriot Stanton Blatch, Eighty Million Women Want - ? |
Nov 20 |
Adrienne Morrison, Damaged Goods |
Nov 21 |
Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies |
Nov 21 |
Agustín Espí, 48 pesetas de taxi |
Nov 22 |
Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67 |
Nov 22 |
Otto F. Gmelin, Das Fräulein an der Kasse |
Nov 23 |
Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82 |
Nov 23 |
Billy Jones, Down on the Barn |
Nov 26 |
C.W. Stowell, The Ramparts We Watch |
Nov 27 |
Seal Harris, Spirit of Youth |
Nov 28 |
Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist |
Nov 28 |
Frank Tinney, The Governor's Boss |
Nov 30 |
Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78 |
Nov 30 |
George McClellan, Annual Parade, New York Fire Department |
Dec 1 |
Charles Richman, Dark Victory |
Dec 3 |
Ugo Ceseri, Passaporto rosso |
Dec 3 |
C. Henry Gordon, Scarface |
Dec 4 |
Helmer Adler, Herrat ovat herkkäuskoisia |
Dec 5 |
Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60 |
Dec 5 |
Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893) |
Dec 5 |
Wilfred Lucas, Modern Times |
Dec 5 |
Fred Warren, The Matrimaniac |
Dec 5 |
Eddie Nelson, Hot and Heavy |
Dec 6 |
Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895), dies |
Dec 6 |
Carl H. Christensen, Klør Dame |
Dec 6 |
Billy Franey, The Star Packer |
Dec 6 |
James Kilgannon, I Take This Woman |
Dec 6 |
Darr Wittenmyer, Two Laughs |
Dec 8 |
George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861) |
Dec 8 |
Pedro Fernández Cuenca, Marianela |
Dec 9 |
Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle |
Dec 9 |
József Baróthy, Iglói diákok |
Dec 9 |
Lee Willard, His Regeneration |
Dec 9 |
John Hyams, Give Me Action |
Dec 10 |
William V. Mong, The Grudge |
Dec 10 |
Christian Schrøder, Loppen |
Dec 11 |
J. Harold Murray, Women Everywhere |
Dec 11 |
Georgi Filatov, Professor Mamlock |
Dec 13 |
Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies |
Dec 13 |
George Macaulay, cricketer (took 24 wkts in 8 Tests, Eng 22-33), dies |
Dec 13 |
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851) |
Dec 13 |
George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890) |
Dec 13 |
George Regas, The Mark of Zorro |
Dec 13 |
Edward Cecil, The Cove of Missing Men |
Dec 15 |
William H. Terhune, Babes in Toyland |
Dec 16 |
M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies |
Dec 16 |
William Wallace, composer, dies at 80 |
Dec 16 |
Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866) |
Dec 17 |
Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) |
Dec 18 |
Frank Condon, Rubber Tires |
Dec 19 |
Landers Stevens, The Question of Today |
Dec 19 |
Kyösti Kallio, I.S.K. 40 v. riemujuhlanäyttely Pieksämäellä |
Dec 21 |
F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
Dec 21 |
Hal Kemp, Small Time Crooks |
Dec 21 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Dec 21 |
Lucille Mulhall, The Cherokee Strip |
Dec 21 |
Mary Cecil, The Women |
Dec 21 |
Jack O'Hara, The Fifty-Fifty Girl |
Dec 22 |
Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 |
Dec 22 |
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust |
Dec 24 |
Billy Hill, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Dec 24 |
Henry Youngman, The Night That Sophie Graduated |
Dec 25 |
Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42 |
Dec 25 |
Agnes Ayres, The Sheik |
Dec 26 |
Daniel Frohman, Cinderella |
Dec 26 |
Ernest Lawford, The Fighter |
Dec 26 |
Margit Miklóssy, Az alvajáró |
Dec 26 |
Reinhold Weiglin, Jungens |
Dec 27 |
John E. Brennan, Wanted: An Heir |
Dec 27 |
Kaarlo Kartio, The Scapegoat |
Dec 28 |
Jack Stegall, The Devil on Horseback |
Dec 30 |
Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79 |
Dec 30 |
József Sziklay, Nobody's Son |
Dec 31 |
J.C. Hoffner, White Oak |
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