Notable Deaths - 1968
1968 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Robert Riordan, The Equalizer |
Jan 2 |
Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies |
Jan 4 |
Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 |
Jan 5 |
Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 |
Jan 6 |
Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 |
Jan 7 |
Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) |
Jan 9 |
Kokichi Tsuburaya, Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide |
Jan 9 |
Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90 |
Jan 10 |
Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 |
Jan 10 |
Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 |
Jan 10 |
Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85 |
Jan 10 |
Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 |
Jan 11 |
Rezsö Seress, Gloomy Sunday |
Jan 13 |
Bill Masterson, NHL player for the Minnesota Northstars checked into the boards, dies two days later |
Jan 14 |
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885) |
Jan 15 |
Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies |
Jan 15 |
John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 |
Jan 15 |
Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69 |
Jan 15 |
Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938) |
Jan 16 |
Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84 |
Jan 17 |
Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 |
Jan 18 |
Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72 |
Jan 18 |
John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58 |
Jan 18 |
Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69 |
Jan 19 |
Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879) |
Jan 20 |
Gerd Brüdern, Die Nadel |
Jan 21 |
Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914) |
Jan 22 |
Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77 |
Jan 25 |
Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31 |
Jan 25 |
Erich Musil, Der Fall Rainer |
Jan 26 |
Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883) |
Jan 26 |
Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900) |
Jan 29 |
Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies |
Jan 29 |
Hermann Asmus, Heart of Stone |
Jan 30 |
Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81 |
Feb 1 |
Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 |
Feb 4 |
Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70 |
Feb 4 |
Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67 |
Feb 4 |
Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926) |
Feb 5 |
Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80 |
Feb 6 |
C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 |
Feb 6 |
Arthur Hoerl, Reefer Madness |
Feb 7 |
Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36 |
Feb 7 |
Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49 |
Feb 8 |
J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 |
Feb 8 |
Maurice Maillot, La croix des cimes |
Feb 9 |
Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 |
Feb 9 |
Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78 |
Feb 10 |
Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 |
Feb 11 |
Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 |
Feb 13 |
Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 |
Feb 13 |
Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72 |
Feb 15 |
Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 |
Feb 16 |
Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 |
Feb 16 |
Harry Minsey, The Clock King's Crazy Crimes |
Feb 17 |
Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 |
Feb 18 |
Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 |
Feb 19 |
Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 |
Feb 19 |
Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878) |
Feb 20 |
Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 |
Feb 21 |
Howard Florey, pharmacologist/Pathologist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 69 |
Feb 22 |
Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 |
Feb 22 |
Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904) |
Feb 23 |
Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 |
Feb 23 |
Milos Havel, Prazstí Adamité |
Feb 25 |
Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 |
Feb 26 |
Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 |
Feb 27 |
Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 |
Feb 27 |
Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46 |
Feb 27 |
Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer (The Teenagers), dies at 25 of a heroin overdose |
Feb 27 |
Hartvig Andersen, Ballade på Bullerborg |
Feb 28 |
Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 |
Feb 28 |
Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66 |
Feb 28 |
Homer Ackerman, The Painted Desert |
Feb 29 |
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886) |
Mar 1 |
G v d Vring, writer, dies |
Mar 1 |
Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 |
Mar 4 |
Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 |
Mar 6 |
Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 |
Mar 6 |
Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House, dies at 83 |
Mar 7 |
Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 |
Mar 10 |
Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 |
Mar 14 |
Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies |
Mar 16 |
June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 |
Mar 16 |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72 |
Mar 18 |
Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 |
Mar 19 |
Owen Evans, Tailor's Trimmings |
Mar 20 |
Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies |
Mar 20 |
Joseph Simpson, Episode #1.1 |
Mar 21 |
Erwin Linder, Der fröhliche Weinberg |
Mar 23 |
Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49 |
Mar 24 |
Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 |
Mar 24 |
Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70 |
Mar 24 |
Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873) |
Mar 25 |
Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood |
Mar 26 |
Khrisanf Khersonsky, Mumu |
Mar 27 |
Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 |
Mar 30 |
Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937) |
Mar 31 |
Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885) |
Apr 1 |
Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 |
Apr 4 |
Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39 |
Apr 5 |
Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44 |
Apr 6 |
Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death |
Apr 7 |
Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany at 32 |
Apr 10 |
Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899) |
Apr 12 |
Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899) |
Apr 13 |
Albert Valentin, The Changing of the Guard |
Apr 14 |
Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911) |
Apr 15 |
Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73 |
Apr 16 |
Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty), dies at 82 |
Apr 16 |
Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76 |
Apr 17 |
Margaret Seddon, dies at 95 |
Apr 18 |
Bob Mark, Lost in Space |
Apr 19 |
Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 |
Apr 20 |
Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81 |
Apr 21 |
Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 |
Apr 21 |
Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt |
Apr 22 |
Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911) |
Apr 24 |
Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62 |
Apr 24 |
Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45 |
Apr 25 |
John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876) |
Apr 25 |
Harald Kreutzberg, Labyrinth |
May 1 |
Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 |
May 1 |
Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895) |
May 1 |
George Atkinson, The Conquering Power |
May 2 |
Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69 |
May 3 |
Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86 |
May 3 |
Fred Albin, Gone with the Wind |
May 5 |
Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62 |
May 6 |
Thomas Alder, Thirteen Days to Die |
May 7 |
Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 |
May 9 |
Finlay Currie, dies at 90 |
May 9 |
Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 |
May 9 |
Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 |
May 9 |
Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58 |
May 9 |
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893) |
May 10 |
Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies |
May 10 |
Philippa Bevans, dies at 55 |
May 10 |
Scotty Beckett, dies at 38 |
May 13 |
Jane Faber, Fantomas |
May 14 |
Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86 |
May 14 |
Viveka Linder, Sten Stensson kommer till stan |
May 20 |
Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies |
May 20 |
Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91 |
May 21 |
Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71 |
May 21 |
Doris Lloyd, The Sound of Music |
May 23 |
James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 |
May 23 |
Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 |
May 23 |
J.C. Watson, Coy and Goldie Watson |
May 23 |
Coy Watson Sr., The Thief of Bagdad |
May 24 |
Bernard Rogers, composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75 |
May 25 |
Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63 |
May 26 |
William E "Little Willie" John, US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30) |
May 26 |
Joseph MacDonald, The Sand Pebbles |
May 27 |
Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30 |
May 28 |
Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908) |
May 29 |
Jesse Scott, The Champ |
Jun 1 |
Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 |
Jun 1 |
[Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57 |
Jun 2 |
André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929) |
Jun 4 |
Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 |
Jun 6 |
Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies |
Jun 6 |
robert kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 |
Jun 6 |
Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) |
Jun 7 |
Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 |
Jun 9 |
Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884) |
Jun 10 |
Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 |
Jun 12 |
Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 |
Jun 14 |
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 |
Jun 14 |
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 |
Jun 14 |
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sawdust and Tinsel |
Jun 15 |
Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 |
Jun 15 |
Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48 |
Jun 17 |
José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901) |
Jun 19 |
James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898) |
Jun 21 |
Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91 |
Jun 25 |
Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 |
Jun 27 |
Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies |
Jun 27 |
Léon Poirier, The Call |
Jun 29 |
Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 |
Jun 30 |
John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 |
Jul 1 |
Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies |
Jul 1 |
Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42 |
Jul 2 |
Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74 |
Jul 7 |
Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73 |
Jul 7 |
Wilson Batista, É de Chuá |
Jul 9 |
Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53 |
Jul 9 |
John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62 |
Jul 9 |
Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73 |
Jul 10 |
Sydney M. Fogel, The Caretakers |
Jul 14 |
Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76 |
Jul 14 |
Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64 |
Jul 14 |
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892) |
Jul 15 |
Lura Anson, dies in Woodland at 76 |
Jul 18 |
Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
Jul 20 |
Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies |
Jul 20 |
Phillip Dunning, Broadway |
Jul 21 |
Ruth St Denis, US choreography, dies at about 90 |
Jul 22 |
Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60 |
Jul 23 |
Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets) |
Jul 23 |
Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies |
Jul 26 |
Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies |
Jul 27 |
Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies |
Jul 27 |
Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61 |
Jul 27 |
Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882) |
Jul 28 |
Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70 |
Jul 28 |
Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 |
Jul 30 |
Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69 |
Jul 31 |
Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66 |
Jul 31 |
Gerda Maurus, Spies |
Aug 3 |
Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 |
Aug 5 |
Luther Perkins American guitarist |
Aug 6 |
Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 |
Aug 8 |
Orovida Camille Pissarro, British painter and etcher (b. 1893) |
Aug 11 |
Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies |
Aug 12 |
Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 |
Aug 12 |
Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891) |
Aug 15 |
Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84 |
Aug 16 |
Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71 |
Aug 18 |
Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52 |
Aug 19 |
Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44 |
Aug 19 |
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904) |
Aug 20 |
Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69 |
Aug 21 |
Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 |
Aug 24 |
Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies |
Aug 25 |
John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 |
Aug 25 |
Stan McCabe, cricketer (39 Tests for Australia 1930-38), dies |
Aug 26 |
Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 |
Aug 26 |
Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899) |
Aug 27 |
Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 |
Aug 28 |
John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies |
Aug 28 |
Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58 |
Aug 29 |
Victor Sutherland, dies at 79 |
Aug 29 |
Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881) |
Aug 30 |
William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53 |
Aug 31 |
Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60 |
Aug 31 |
George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies |
Sep 1 |
Granville English, composer, dies at 69 |
Sep 2 |
Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 |
Sep 3 |
Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896) |
Sep 5 |
Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 |
Sep 6 |
Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 |
Sep 9 |
Aleksandr Gruzinsky, The Ugly Story |
Sep 11 |
René Cogny, French General (b. 1904) |
Sep 11 |
Giuseppe Pascali, Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Il conte di Montecristo |
Sep 12 |
Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894) |
Sep 17 |
Liselotte Goettinger, Girl with Green Eyes |
Sep 18 |
Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63 |
Sep 18 |
Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77 |
Sep 18 |
Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65 |
Sep 19 |
Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 |
Sep 19 |
Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58 |
Sep 20 |
Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57 |
Sep 23 |
Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887) |
Sep 24 |
Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67 |
Sep 24 |
Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47 |
Sep 26 |
Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915) |
Sep 28 |
Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 |
Oct 2 |
Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81 |
Oct 6 |
Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917) |
Oct 9 |
Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed |
Oct 10 |
Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 |
Oct 13 |
Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62 |
Oct 15 |
Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 |
Oct 15 |
Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57 |
Oct 16 |
Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914) |
Oct 18 |
Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 |
Oct 18 |
Lee Tracy, Dinner at Eight |
Oct 20 |
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 |
Oct 25 |
Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies |
Oct 26 |
Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 |
Oct 26 |
Erich von Stroheim Jr., The Cardinal |
Oct 27 |
Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 |
Oct 28 |
Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 |
Oct 29 |
Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 |
Oct 30 |
Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 |
Oct 30 |
Pert Kelton, actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61 |
Oct 31 |
Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 |
Nov 1 |
Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80 |
Nov 2 |
Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 |
Nov 4 |
Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 |
Nov 4 |
Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892) |
Nov 5 |
Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81 |
Nov 5 |
Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54 |
Nov 6 |
Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 |
Nov 6 |
Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891) |
Nov 6 |
Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898) |
Nov 7 |
Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies |
Nov 7 |
Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906) |
Nov 8 |
Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 |
Nov 8 |
George Unholz, The Road to Hollywood |
Nov 9 |
Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37 |
Nov 9 |
Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies |
Nov 10 |
Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 |
Nov 11 |
Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 |
Nov 16 |
Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana, dies at 74 |
Nov 16 |
Robert Westerby, War and Peace |
Nov 17 |
Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86 |
Nov 17 |
Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911) |
Nov 18 |
Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74 |
Nov 20 |
Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies of cancer at 50 |
Nov 20 |
Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra), dies |
Nov 25 |
Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93 |
Nov 25 |
Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89 |
Nov 25 |
Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90 |
Nov 25 |
Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908) |
Nov 26 |
Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 |
Nov 27 |
Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85 |
Nov 27 |
Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65 |
Nov 28 |
Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 |
Dec 1 |
Hugo Haas, actor/director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66 |
Dec 1 |
Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921) |
Dec 5 |
Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54 |
Dec 10 |
Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 |
Dec 10 |
Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65 |
Dec 10 |
Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53 |
Dec 10 |
George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921) |
Dec 11 |
Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59 |
Dec 12 |
Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 |
Dec 12 |
Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies |
Dec 13 |
Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 |
Dec 15 |
Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 |
Dec 15 |
Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899) |
Dec 19 |
Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 |
Dec 20 |
Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 |
Dec 20 |
John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), dies at 66 |
Dec 20 |
Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 |
Dec 22 |
Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 |
Dec 28 |
Clarke Morgan, Episode #1.131 |
Dec 29 |
Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904) |
Dec 30 |
Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896) |
Dec 31 |
Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 |
Dec 31 |
George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16 |
Dec 31 |
Sabin V Dragoi, composer, dies at 74 |
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