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Notable Deaths - 1947

1947Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal

1947Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)

1947Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83

1947Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of neurosyphilis at 48

1947Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of a heart attack at 76

1947Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62

1947 Deaths
Date Event
Jan 1
Arthur Loft, Scarlet Street 
Jan 2
Gerald Kay Souper, For the Term of His Natural Life 
Jan 3
Ernst Hardt, Der Galiläer 
Jan 4
Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 
Jan 4
John Lang Sinclair, Glory Road 
Jan 5
Roland Bottomley, The Net of Deceit 
Jan 5
Jack Doud, Oh, Lady, Lady 
Jan 5
Philip Bartholomae, The Black Panther's Cub 
Jan 7
Frank Colbert, Flames of Wrath 
Jan 8
J.A. Campbell, The Queen Mother 
Jan 9
Karl Mannheim, sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53 
Jan 9
Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80 
Jan 9
Herman Bing, The Great Ziegfeld 
Jan 10
August Blom, Atlantis 
Jan 10
Elsworth Saunders, The Law of Nature 
Jan 10
Harold Dean Carsey, The Private Life of Helen of Troy 
Jan 11
Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879) 
Jan 11
Amelia Gardner, The Lure of Ambition 
Jan 11
Eva Tanguay, The Wild Girl 
Jan 12
Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 
Jan 12
Walter Gilbert, Dynamite Delaney 
Jan 13
Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61 
Jan 13
Alexander Leftwich, Prison Train 
Jan 14
Bill Hewitt, Pro Football 
Jan 15
Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924) 
Jan 15
Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia Haunting 
Jan 15
Jimmy Sheckard, World Series Baseball Game 
Jan 16
Dina Smirnova, Dressed to Thrill 
Jan 17
Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869) 
Jan 17
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883) 
Jan 17
Albert Arid, Freies Land 
Jan 18
K.L. Saigal, Devdas 
Jan 19
Manuel Machado, La Lola se va a los puertos 
Jan 19
József Bécsi, The Lady Is a Bit Cracked 
Jan 20
Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35 
Jan 20
Gotthardt Wolf, I Kiss Your Hand Madame 
Jan 23
Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79 
Jan 23
Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies 
Jan 23
Herbert Corthell, The Story of Louis Pasteur 
Jan 24
Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60 
Jan 24
S.C. Balcon, Went the Day Well? 
Jan 24
Felix Timmermans, Little Baby Jesus of Flandr 
Jan 25
Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of neurosyphilis at 48 
Jan 25
Al Capone,  
Jan 25
Adolfo Carabelli, Ambición 
Jan 26
Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48 
Jan 26
Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash 
Jan 26
Louis Fitzroy, Blind Husbands 
Jan 26
Gerda Neumann, Musik i haven 
Jan 26
Jens Dennow, Op med humøret 
Jan 26
Grace Moore, One Night of Love 
Jan 27
Lyster Chambers, Bringing Up Betty 
Jan 28
Reynaldo Hahn, composer, dies at 72 
Jan 28
Reynaldo Hahn, Norwegian Wood 
Jan 29
Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for Eng 1929-30), dies 
Jan 29
Del Gainer, 1915 World's Championship Series 
Jan 29
Pearl Argyle, Things to Come 
Jan 30
Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80 
Jan 30
Dubravko Dujsin, Slavica 
Jan 31
Johnny Kling, World Series Baseball Game 
Jan 31
Betty Ross Clarke, Murders in the Rue Morgue 
Feb 1
Joseph Mazzoletti, Mysterious Mr. Moto 
Feb 1
Paul Huldschinsky, Meet Me in St. Louis 
Feb 1
Stanislaw Grolicki, Halka 
Feb 2
Tottan Skantze, Carl XII:s kurir 
Feb 2
Ludvík Veverka, Hvezda z poslední stace 
Feb 2
Williband Hentschel, Prelude to War 
Feb 3
Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 
Feb 3
Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-adm (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60 
Feb 3
Marc A. Mitscher, The Fighting Lady 
Feb 3
Ivy Scott, Higher and Higher 
Feb 4
Buck Connors, Reuben's Busy Day 
Feb 5
Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed 
Feb 5
Hans Fallada, writer, dies at 53 
Feb 5
Hans Fallada, Everyone Dies Alone 
Feb 5
Salvatore Cardillo, Avanti! 
Feb 5
Guglielmo Sinaz, Luciano Serra, Pilot 
Feb 5
Bill Herwig, The Vanishing Private 
Feb 6
Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82 
Feb 6
Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61 
Feb 6
Carl-Ivar Ytterman, När Bengt och Anders bytte hustrur 
Feb 6
Luigi Russolo, Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique 
Feb 6
Max Gülstorff, Der zerbrochene Krug 
Feb 6
Ellen Wilkinson, The Passaic Textile Strike 
Feb 7
John W. Bratton, The 6th Day 
Feb 8
Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65 
Feb 9
Eric Mayne, Dr. Jack 
Feb 9
Jacques Montéran, The Fortune Teller 
Feb 10
Winter Hall, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 
Feb 10
Orlando Hicks, Slippery Slim and the Impersonator 
Feb 10
George Meehan, Tarzan's Revenge 
Feb 12
Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 
Feb 12
Sidney Toler, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service 
Feb 12
Afrânio Peixoto, Maria Bonita 
Feb 13
Pauline Johnson, Blanchette 
Feb 14
Michael Cudahy, The Barbarian 
Feb 16
Charles Hiby, Mr. Lucky 
Feb 16
Valdemar Møller, En søndag på Amager 
Feb 16
Václav Menger, Funebrák 
Feb 17
Kokhta Karalashvili, Caucasian Love 
Feb 18
Lucius Henderson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
Feb 19
Julian Street, You're Telling Me! 
Feb 20
Clyde McAtee, Percy 
Feb 21
Gene Stone, Time to Expire 
Feb 21
Lee Zahler, The Three Musketeers 
Feb 21
Loyal Curtis, The Edge of Love 
Feb 22
Willard Van Enger, Casablanca 
Feb 23
Grace Lutz, Marriage in Transit 
Feb 24
Elizabeth Jordan, Make Way for a Lady 
Feb 25
Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82 
Feb 26
Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82 
Feb 26
Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868) 
Feb 26
Urho Karhumäki, Yli rajan 
Feb 26
Ben Webster, Lassie Come Home 
Feb 27
Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricketer (Tests Eng v Aust 1879), dies at 89 
Feb 27
Frank Belcher, Mrs. Balfame 
Mar 1
J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed 
Mar 1
Heinrich Glücksmann, Mozarts Leben, Lieben und Leiden 
Mar 3
Mal De Lay, Feet First 
Mar 5
Alfredo Casella, Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 
Mar 6
Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55 
Mar 6
Theodore Lodi, Down to Earth 
Mar 6
General Lodijensky, Her Love Story 
Mar 6
Ludwig Hardt, Arizona 
Mar 8
Victor Potel, Sullivan's Travels 
Mar 9
Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies 
Mar 9
Carrie Chapman Catt, American women's suffrage leader, dies at 88 
Mar 10
Robert Jonsson, Laila 
Mar 10
Alice MacGowan, The Getaway 
Mar 10
William E. Wing, Tarzan and the Golden Lion 
Mar 11
Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 
Mar 12
"Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871) 
Mar 12
Winston Churchill, The Crisis 
Mar 13
Lena Kley, Forty Years 
Mar 13
Gerda Christophersen, Genboerne 
Mar 15
Frank Forbes-Robertson, Danny Boy 
Mar 16
Algot Persson, Rannsakningsdomaren 
Mar 18
William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861) 
Mar 18
Mattie Connolly, The Ranger 
Mar 19
Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52 
Mar 20
Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884) 
Mar 20
Mike Mowrey, World Series Games 1916, Boston vs. Brooklyn 
Mar 20
Raymond Klages, Hannah and Her Sisters 
Mar 20
Sigurd Wallén, Skipper Jansson 
Mar 23
Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870) 
Mar 23
Arthur Rankin, Brothers 
Mar 26
Arthur T. Walden, With Byrd at the South Pole 
Mar 27
Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies 
Mar 27
Edith Craig, The God in the Garden 
Mar 27
Mack Davis, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 
Mar 28
Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57 
Mar 28
Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897) 
Mar 28
Johnny Evers, World Series Baseball Game 
Mar 28
Jane Corcoran, Mother 
Mar 28
Leon M. Lion, Number 17 
Mar 28
Heikki Välisalmi, Herra Elanto 
Mar 30
Arthur Machen, Skeleton of Mrs. Morales 
Mar 31
Louis Adlon, Counter-Attack 
Mar 31
Harris Gordon, Her Father's Gold 
Apr 1
George II, king of Greece, dies at 56 
Apr 1
Edwin Jürgensen, To New Shores 
Apr 1
Harry Humphrey, Dick Tracy's G-Men 
Apr 2
Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for Eng 1907-08), dies 
Apr 4
William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?) 
Apr 4
Reinhold Häussermann, The Third Squadron 
Apr 6
Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58 
Apr 6
Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896) 
Apr 6
William P. Carleton, A Wife's Awakening 
Apr 7
Elsa O'Connor, La vida de Carlos Gardel 
Apr 7
Henry Ford, Til Vesterheimen 
Apr 7
Rudolf Hoess, Nürnberg und seine Lehre 
Apr 8
Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83 
Apr 9
Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43 
Apr 9
Donna Wood, Pot o' Gold 
Apr 10
Roy Crane, Remember the Night 
Apr 10
John Ince, Hour of Reckoning 
Apr 10
Salvador Toscano, Memorias de un mexicano 
Apr 10
Charles Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty 
Apr 11
Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880) 
Apr 12
Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies 
Apr 13
Jack J. Clark, Rory O'More 
Apr 13
Hugh Sothern, The Oklahoma Kid 
Apr 15
Wolstenholme, rocker, dies 
Apr 15
Fernand de Brinon,  
Apr 16
Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900) 
Apr 16
Nikolai Konovalov, Spring 
Apr 17
G.B. Samuelson, The Game of Life 
Apr 18
Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51 
Apr 18
Maria Reisenhofer, Der Liebeskäfig 
Apr 18
Jozef Tiso,  
Apr 18
Benny Leonard, The Jazz Fight 
Apr 19
Ulrich Salchow, Animated Weekly, No. 52 
Apr 20
Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76 
Apr 20
King Christian X, Kong Chr. X's 75 års fødselsdag 
Apr 20
Helen Mann, Speed in the Gay Nineties 
Apr 21
William Lord Wright, The Indians Are Coming 
Apr 21
J.C. Nugent, Wise Girls 
Apr 23
Lewis E. Lawes, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing 
Apr 24
Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873) 
Apr 24
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 
Apr 26
Cecil Reynolds, Modern Times 
Apr 26
Frank E. Hughes, Lifeboat 
Apr 29
Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80 
Apr 29
Clarence Gaskill, Raging Bull 
Apr 30
Emilio Carrere, La torre de los siete jorobados 
May 1
Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed 
May 1
Ruth Bolgiano, The Girl I Loved 
May 2
Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920) 
May 2
Hugo Flink, Königliche Bettler 
May 2
William M. Marston, Justice League 
May 3
Russell G. Shields, The Golf Specialist 
May 3
Melville De Lay, Dead Men Walk 
May 3
Harry Holman, Meet John Doe 
May 4
Lajos Bazsay, The Five-Forty 
May 5
Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917) 
May 6
Toni Impekoven, Der Haus-Tyrann 
May 8
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858) 
May 8
Carl Oscar Borg, The Black Pirate 
May 9
Sebastian Cristillo, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap 
May 9
Byron Seawright, Wake Island 
May 10
Juliusz Osterwa, Za winy brata 
May 10
Louis K. Anspacher, The Unchastened Woman 
May 11
Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62 
May 11
Ture Rangström, Tonmålaren 
May 11
James G. Woodbury, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 
May 12
Richard A. Rowland, The Divine Lady 
May 13
Sukanta Bhattacharya, A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale 
May 14
John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59 
May 15
Charles Sindelar, Cleopatra 
May 15
John Arledge, The Grapes of Wrath 
May 16
Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861) 
May 17
George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869) 
May 17
Seabiscuit, Seabiscuit: The Lost Documentary 
May 17
Ben Taggart, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 
May 18
Elizabeth Williams, The Burden of Race 
May 18
Hal Chase, Hal Chase's Home Run 
May 18
Lucile Gleason, The Clock 
May 19
Robert Huggins, Chanler Rao, Criminal Expert 
May 19
Paul Franck, The Vengeance of the Kabyle 
May 19
Frank Orsatti, The Irish in Us 
May 20
Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862) 
May 21
Flora Thompson, Episode #1.1 
May 22
Vitaliy Perezhogin, Sorochinskaya yarmarka 
May 22
Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrong Box 
May 23
C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 
May 23
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, War in the Highlands 
May 23
Minnie Dupree, The Young in Heart 
May 23
Per Kvist, De vergeløse 
May 23
Nanine Wright, The Mysterious Witness 
May 23
Florette Faulkner, The Kid 
May 24
Luis G. Barreiro, Prisoner 13 
May 26
Margrete Jespersen, Caros død 
May 27
Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885) 
May 27
Theodore Seixas Solomons, The Barbarian 
May 28
August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907) 
May 30
Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 
May 30
Georg Johannes, Ritter von Trapp World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880); inspiration for "The Sound of Music" 
May 30
Owen Roughwood, The Queen Mother 
May 31
Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39 
May 31
Henri Casadesus, French violist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 67 
May 31
H. Casadessus,  
May 31
Henri Casadesus, Mysteries of Paris 
May 31
Adrienne Ames, The Death Kiss 
Jun 1
Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Miss Julie 
Jun 2
Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64 
Jun 2
Lillian Case Russell, Floodgates 
Jun 2
E. Lawrence Dudley, Voltaire 
Jun 3
George Lessey, The $1,000,000 Reward 
Jun 5
Nils Olaf Chrisander, Fången på Karlstens fästning 
Jun 5
Elmer Ballard, Her Private Affair 
Jun 6
Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies 
Jun 7
John Decker, Cruise of the Zaca 
Jun 8
Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56 
Jun 8
Thomas E. O'Brien, The Birth of a Nation 
Jun 8
Tom O'Brien, The Big Parade 
Jun 8
Zoltan Egyed, Dramatic School 
Jun 9
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 
Jun 9
J. Warren Kerrigan, The Covered Wagon 
Jun 9
Charles Force, The Love Pirate 
Jun 10
Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852) 
Jun 11
Pete Canova, Colorado Serenade 
Jun 11
Kid Broad, Easy to Get 
Jun 12
Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70 
Jun 13
Lillian Hayward, The Prima Donna's Mother 
Jun 14
Mizzi Zwerenz, Schützenliesel 
Jun 16
Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86 
Jun 17
Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62 
Jun 17
Gunhild Robertson, Rågens rike 
Jun 18
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898) 
Jun 18
A.E. Thomas, The Big Pond 
Jun 18
Richard Cooper, Rodney Steps In 
Jun 18
Marcia Harris, Orphans of the Storm 
Jun 18
Sam Appel, Yankee Don 
Jun 18
Alfred Allen, Miss Blossom 
Jun 19
Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84 
Jun 19
Ferenc Futurista, Za oponou smrti 
Jun 20
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal 
Jun 20
Bugsy Siegel,  
Jun 21
Karel Kolár, Stavitel chrámu 
Jun 21
Herman Darewski, Cobb 
Jun 22
Scott, Take Off That Hat 
Jun 22
Madge Orlamond, Streets of New York 
Jun 22
Jim Tully, Beggars of Life 
Jun 24
Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864) 
Jun 24
Bartolomeo Pagano, Maciste in Hell 
Jun 25
Billy Merson, Billy's Spanish Love Spasm 
Jun 25
Alice Fischer, National Red Cross Pageant 
Jun 25
Ludovico Tomarchio, Swiss Miss 
Jun 26
Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of a heart attack at 76 
Jun 26
R.B. Bennett,  
Jun 27
Predrag Milanov, Slavica 
Jun 27
Robert Broadwell, The Great Radium Mystery 
Jun 28
Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72 
Jun 29
Vera West, Shadow of a Doubt 
Jun 29
John P. Medbury, Among the Latins 
Jun 30
Mary Borzage, 7th Heaven 
Jul 1
Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80 
Jul 1
Jacques Lory, Suez 
Jul 1
Ilona Kökény, Mária két éjszakája 
Jul 2
Anna Rápolthy, Miss President 
Jul 5
Maria Zarebinska, White Venom 
Jul 5
Josef Wenter, Romance 
Jul 5
Ted Billings, Bride of Frankenstein 
Jul 7
Robert Schable, The Love of Sunya 
Jul 7
Sidney Wagner, The Postman Always Rings Twice 
Jul 9
Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865) 
Jul 10
Charles Withers, The Oily Bird 
Jul 12
Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902) 
Jul 12
E.J. Tait, The Story of the Kelly Gang 
Jul 13
Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs), dies 
Jul 13
Marcel Varnel, Oh, Mr. Porter! 
Jul 13
Jimmie Lunceford, With Honors 
Jul 14
Franz Servaes, Wildes Blut 
Jul 14
Orval Overall, World Series Baseball Game 
Jul 15
Henry Kolker, dies at 76 
Jul 15
Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893) 
Jul 15
Brandon Hurst, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
Jul 15
Walter Donaldson, L.A. Confidential 
Jul 15
Henry Kolker, Holiday 
Jul 16
Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77 
Jul 17
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34 
Jul 17
Kathryn Carver, Service for Ladies 
Jul 17
Ossi Oswalda, I Don't Want to Be a Man 
Jul 19
Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915) 
Jul 19
U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898) 
Jul 20
Charles R. Moore, Sullivan's Travels 
Jul 21
Zanka Stokic, Gresnica bez greha 
Jul 23
Harold De Becker, The Right of Way 
Jul 24
Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72 
Jul 27
Carlo Minello, I 3 aquilotti 
Jul 28
Robert Homans, The Grapes of Wrath 
Jul 28
Katherine M. Kingsherry, The Trust 
Jul 28
Celedonio Flores, Café de los maestros 
Jul 29
Valce Clegg, Lucky Spurs 
Jul 30
George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies 
Jul 30
Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860) 
Jul 31
Thomas Job, The Two Mrs. Carrolls 
Aug 1
Walter DeLeon, Ruggles of Red Gap 
Aug 2
Sidney P. Dones, Reformation 
Aug 5
Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies 
Aug 5
Carl Hoffmann, Faust 
Aug 6
Wanda Siemaszkowa, O czym sie nie mówi 
Aug 8
Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872) 
Aug 9
R.W. Walter, The Dumb Girl of Portici 
Aug 10
Elmer Jerome, That's My Gal 
Aug 13
Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies 
Aug 13
George Godfrey, Old Ironsides 
Aug 13
Marthe Mellot, The Last Billionaire 
Aug 18
D.H. Turner, Her American Prince 
Aug 18
Vasiliy Zaychikov, We Are from Kronstadt 
Aug 19
Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67 
Aug 19
Lucien Denni, Holiday 
Aug 19
Master Vinayak, Brahmachari 
Aug 20
Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79 
Aug 21
Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies 
Aug 21
Forrest Huff, The Love of Sunya 
Aug 21
Ettore Bugatti,  
Aug 23
Hasmik Agopyan, The Power of Evil 
Aug 23
Alexander Esway, Mauvaise graine 
Aug 25
Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76 
Aug 25
Arthur B. Allen, Our Town 
Aug 26
Arthur Rose, The Shop Around the Corner 
Aug 28
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917) 
Aug 28
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Over the Seven Seas 
Aug 29
Manolete, Torero 
Aug 30
Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Markens grøde 
Sep 1
Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861) 
Sep 1
Earl Stafford, Plain Clothes 
Sep 1
James Hagan, The Strawberry Blonde 
Sep 3
Ernest Hilliard, The Matinee Idol 
Sep 3
Roy Pomeroy, Shock 
Sep 4
Arthur Johns, The Stranger 
Sep 4
Charlotte Wiehe, Lotte vil paa Landet 
Sep 5
Finn Froelich, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
Sep 6
Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76 
Sep 6
Alfred Hewston, The Arizona Streak 
Sep 6
Luigi Barzini, India favolosa 
Sep 7
Harold McLernon, White Zombie 
Sep 7
Milton Feld, Born Reckless 
Sep 8
Robert A. Dietrich, Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten 
Sep 8
J.U. Giesy, The Matrimaniac 
Sep 11
Staf Cauwenberg, De storm in het leven 
Sep 11
Mildred Gover, Day-Time Wife 
Sep 12
Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89 
Sep 13
Daisy Dormer, Music-Hall Cavalcade: Stars of Yesterday and Today 
Sep 14
Richard Le Gallienne, Once Upon a Crime 
Sep 15
Kurt Felden, Dahinten in der Heide 
Sep 17
Bert Kalmar, The Green Mile 
Sep 18
Carl Voss, The Great Dictator 
Sep 19
Warren Ashe, Destroyer 
Sep 20
Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies 
Sep 20
Fiorello LaGuardia, Some Opinions on Hoover Board's Dry Law Report 
Sep 21
Harry Carey Sr, actor/director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69 
Sep 21
Harry Carey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 
Sep 22
Chester Barnett, The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England 
Sep 23
Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged 
Sep 25
Joseph H. August, They Were Expendable 
Sep 26
Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61 
Sep 26
Herbert Clifton, Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride 
Sep 26
Frederick H. Graham, Nix on Dames 
Sep 26
Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle 
Sep 26
Eldon Hatch, The Two Reformations 
Sep 28
Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58 
Sep 28
William B Davidson, dies 
Sep 28
Lucien Coëdel, La Chartreuse de Parme 
Sep 28
William B. Davidson, The Most Dangerous Game 
Sep 29
William Hedgcock, Saboteur 
Sep 30
Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen, Den lille hornblæser 
Sep 30
J.G. Mayer, The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention 
Oct 1
Ruth Eweler, Atarashiki tsuchi 
Oct 1
Rotraut Richter, Violet of Potsdam Square 
Oct 1
Olive Borden, 3 Bad Men 
Oct 1
Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Canción de cuna 
Oct 2
Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878) 
Oct 2
Barrett Whitelaw, Lure of the Night Club 
Oct 2
P.D. Ouspensky, Recife Inver$o$ - Fragmentos do Delírio Cotidiano 
Oct 3
George Turner, Henry Steps Out 
Oct 4
Max Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies aged 89 
Oct 4
George F. Kelley, Half-Wits Holiday 
Oct 5
Burton Halbert, Boys Will Be Boys 
Oct 6
Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60 
Oct 6
Tom Dempsey, Dangerous Females 
Oct 6
Leevi Madetoja, The Man Without a Past 
Oct 6
Samuel Hoffenstein, Laura 
Oct 6
Lionel Braham, A Christmas Carol 
Oct 8
Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 
Oct 8
Helen Gilmore, Bumping Into Broadway 
Oct 12
Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42 
Oct 12
Henri De Rothschild, La ribalta 
Oct 12
Manart Kippen, Flame of Barbary Coast 
Oct 12
Cullen Tate, The Man in the Iron Mask 
Oct 12
Jim Farley, The General 
Oct 13
Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter, dies 
Oct 13
LeRoy Mason, Texas Terror 
Oct 14
Frank Heller, Finances of the Grand Duke 
Oct 15
Clyde Benson, Sea Mates 
Oct 17
John Halliday, The Philadelphia Story 
Oct 18
Massimo Terzano, Le miserie del signor Travet 
Oct 18
Harry C. Bradley, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 
Oct 19
Robert Kalloch, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 
Oct 20
Bob Crosby, Joan of Arc 
Oct 20
Leonard Smith, National Velvet 
Oct 22
Earle Larrimore, Inspiration 
Oct 23
Sigurd Christiansen, To levende og en død 
Oct 24
Dudley Digges, Mutiny on the Bounty 
Oct 25
Gustaf Berg, Surrogatet 
Oct 25
Sam Mendelson, The Corn Is Green 
Oct 25
Victor Bulwer-Lytton,  
Oct 26
Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862) 
Oct 27
W.G. Fay, Odd Man Out 
Oct 29
Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 
Oct 29
Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69 
Oct 30
Ernest Dainty, Carry on, Sergeant! 
Nov 1
Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917) 
Nov 1
Man o' War, Glimpses of Kentucky 
Nov 1
Mabel Strickland, Rough Riding Ranger 
Nov 1
Phyllis Clare, Romance in Rhythm 
Nov 1
Harry Linkey, When Avarice Rules 
Nov 3
Reinhold Draber, Uncle Kruger 
Nov 3
Rafaela Satorrés, Rojo y negro 
Nov 3
Juan Larrinaga, The Son of Kong 
Nov 3
Nelson McDowell, The Dawn Rider 
Nov 4
Dudley Clements, Trouble in Toyland 
Nov 4
Jean Mercanton, Son of France 
Nov 4
Mabel Van Buren, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 
Nov 4
Harry Hollingsworth, The Tarantula 
Nov 6
Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66 
Nov 6
Umberto Mozzato, Il povero Piero 
Nov 6
William C. Dowlan, The Two-Gun Parson 
Nov 6
William Dowling, The Lost World 
Nov 6
Cecil Humphreys, Wuthering Heights 
Nov 7
Walter Fenner, He Was Her Man 
Nov 7
C.W. Bachman, The Weird Nemesis 
Nov 9
Beulah Lewis, Mixed Wives 
Nov 10
Jack Rockwell, The Lawless Frontier 
Nov 11
Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64 
Nov 11
Robert Sterner, Fantasia 
Nov 12
Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 
Nov 12
Theodore Lorch, Flash Gordon 
Nov 12
Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel 
Nov 14
Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873) 
Nov 14
Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger 
Nov 15
Frank Wead, Dive Bomber 
Nov 16
Toivo Palomurto, Karmankolon kuningas 
Nov 17
Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83 
Nov 17
Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890) 
Nov 17
Ricarda Huch, The Guardian Angel 
Nov 19
Minoru Takase, A Page of Madness 
Nov 19
Pat Daly, A Slight Case of Murder 
Nov 19
George L. Byram, The Flaming Frontier 
Nov 20
Wolfgang Borchert, Brot 
Nov 20
Frank Antunez, The Pilgrim 
Nov 21
George LeGuere, Strife 
Nov 22
James J. Davis, Faith of Millions 
Nov 22
Gloria Grey, A Girl of the Limberlost 
Nov 24
Léon-Paul Fargue, Au champ de vapeur 
Nov 25
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876) 
Nov 25
Bill James, Random Harvest 
Nov 26
Ernie Adams, The Pride of the Yankees 
Nov 27
Paul Bender, Nerves 
Nov 28
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44 
Nov 28
Jacques Leclerc,  
Nov 28
W.E. Lawrence, The Traitor 
Nov 28
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson, Flash Gordon 
Nov 28
Laurence Hanray, The Private Life of Henry VIII. 
Nov 29
Madeline Matzen, In Wrong 
Nov 30
Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies 
Nov 30
Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be 
Dec 1
Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72 
Dec 1
Hardy, mathematician, dies 
Dec 1
Fritz Kraenke, Othello 
Dec 1
Alma Bodén, Hemliga Svensson 
Dec 1
Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World 
Dec 4
Jeanne Grumbach, Herodias 
Dec 4
Walter Walker, Flying Down to Rio 
Dec 6
Al Sack, Melody Time 
Dec 7
Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862) 
Dec 7
Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866) 
Dec 7
Ubaldo Arata, Rome, Open City 
Dec 7
Giuseppe Zago, Don Pasquale 
Dec 7
Tristan Bernard, Le théâtre de Tristan Bernard 
Dec 7
Nicholas Murray Butler, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy 
Dec 8
Zoltán Szakáts, Pogányok 
Dec 9
John Kelly, Bringing Up Baby 
Dec 9
George Carney, 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 
Dec 9
Elena Lunda, Aniello a fede 
Dec 10
Devi Mukherjee, Krishna Leela 
Dec 10
George Mozart, Coney as Peacemaker 
Dec 12
Harry Frank, Lumpenball 
Dec 12
Bothwell Browne, Yankee Doodle in Berlin 
Dec 12
Robert Lander, A Star Is Born 
Dec 13
Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874) 
Dec 13
Eddie Sturgis, After Midnight 
Dec 14
Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84 
Dec 14
Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80 
Dec 14
Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864) 
Dec 14
Gino Sensani, Flesh Will Surrender 
Dec 14
Will Fyffe, To the Victor 
Dec 14
Stanley Baldwin, BBC: The Voice of Britain 
Dec 15
Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863) 
Dec 15
Leo Samwell, Thundering Fleas 
Dec 16
Toni Tetzlaff, His Greatest Bluff 
Dec 16
Cesare Sodero, Isn't Life Wonderful 
Dec 17
Hamilkar Boskovic, Gricka vjestica 
Dec 17
J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd, Over the Fence 
Dec 17
Wayne Nunn, The Dancing Doll 
Dec 18
Lajos Alszeghy, Valamit visz a víz 
Dec 20
Luigi Chiarelli, Fireworks 
Dec 20
Loulou Hégoburu, Coeurs perdus 
Dec 21
Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties 
Dec 22
Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902) 
Dec 22
A. Seymour Brown, Titanic 
Dec 22
Meredith M. Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles 
Dec 23
Agnes Lorentzen, The Folly of Sin 
Dec 24
Frederick Irving Anderson, The Notorious Sophie Lang 
Dec 25
Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886) 
Dec 25
Theodor Tufwesson, Skåningar 
Dec 25
Lou Conley, Indiscreet Corinne 
Dec 26
Clement C. Young, Governor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season 
Dec 26
John A. Waldron, The Bluffer 
Dec 26
Marguerite Carré, Crainquebille 
Dec 26
Urban Gad, The Woman Always Pays 
Dec 27
Frederick Chapin, Turned Up 
Dec 28
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46), dies at 78 
Dec 28
King Victor Emmanuel III, S. M. il Re ed il Capo del Governo per la battaglia del grano 
Dec 29
Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 
Dec 29
Guy Coombs, The Confederate Ironclad 
Dec 30
Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58 
Dec 30
Howard Davies, His Punishment 
Dec 30
Riichi Yokomitsu, Anthropo-Cynical Farce 
Dec 31
Franz X Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 
Dec 31
Madame Sylviac, Pension Mimosas 
Dec 31
Charles Doe, I Became a Criminal 
Dec 31
Louise Beaudet, Sauce for the Goose 
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