Notable Deaths - 1970
1970 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85 |
Jan 3 |
Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902) |
Jan 4 |
Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899) |
Jan 4 |
Prins Viggo, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Jan 5 |
Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered |
Jan 5 |
Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 |
Jan 5 |
Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73 |
Jan 5 |
Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896) |
Jan 7 |
Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81 |
Jan 8 |
Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891) |
Jan 10 |
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 |
Jan 12 |
Blanche Stuart Scott, US pilot, dies at 84 |
Jan 14 |
John J "Johnny" Murphy, US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61 |
Jan 14 |
William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906) |
Jan 16 |
Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies at 61 |
Jan 17 |
Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32 |
Jan 17 |
Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890) |
Jan 18 |
David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96 |
Jan 19 |
Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49 |
Jan 24 |
James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep & Limelites), beaten to death |
Jan 24 |
Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891) |
Jan 25 |
Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 |
Jan 25 |
Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84 |
Jan 25 |
Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901) |
Jan 27 |
Probir Sen, cricket (20 catch & 11 stumpings, 14 Tests for Ind), dies |
Jan 27 |
Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908) |
Jan 28 |
Tommy Andrews (Aust) 16 Tests 1921-26, cricketer (592 runs), dies |
Jan 28 |
Aleksey Zolotnitskiy, Svadba Krechinskogo |
Jan 29 |
Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74 |
Jan 30 |
Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82 |
Jan 31 |
Slim Harpo, [James Moore], rocker, dies at 28 |
Feb 1 |
Blaz Arnic, composer, dies at 69 |
Feb 1 |
Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921) |
Feb 2 |
Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97 |
Feb 2 |
Jaroslav Vogel, composer, dies at 76 |
Feb 2 |
Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898) |
Feb 5 |
Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913) |
Feb 6 |
Roscoe Karns, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78 |
Feb 11 |
Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87 |
Feb 12 |
Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79 |
Feb 13 |
Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (28 Tests for England, ct 60 stp 12), dies |
Feb 15 |
Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882) |
Feb 17 |
Agnon, [SJ Czaczkes], Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81 |
Feb 17 |
Alfred Newman, US composer, dies at 69 |
Feb 17 |
Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies |
Feb 18 |
Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94 |
Feb 19 |
Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89 |
Feb 19 |
Jules Munshin, On the Town |
Feb 20 |
Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86 |
Feb 20 |
Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885) |
Feb 20 |
Café Filho, 18th Brazilian President (1954-1955) dies aged 71 |
Feb 23 |
Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904) |
Feb 24 |
Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73 |
Feb 25 |
Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66 |
Feb 26 |
Ethel Leginska, composer, dies at 83 |
Feb 27 |
Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies |
Feb 27 |
Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934) |
Mar 1 |
Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59 |
Mar 1 |
Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894) |
Mar 2 |
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888) |
Mar 6 |
William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55 |
Mar 9 |
Anya Taranda, Top Hat |
Mar 10 |
Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904) |
Mar 11 |
Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 |
Mar 13 |
Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45 |
Mar 14 |
Karl Gustav Ossiannilsson, Turn of the Century |
Mar 15 |
Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68 |
Mar 15 |
Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 |
Mar 16 |
Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61 |
Mar 16 |
Tammi Terrell, soul singer (You're All I Need), dies of brain tumor at 24 |
Mar 17 |
Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83 |
Mar 20 |
Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920) |
Mar 21 |
Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49 |
Mar 21 |
Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920) |
Mar 21 |
Roberta Rene, Episode #8.10 |
Mar 23 |
Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894) |
Mar 26 |
Fritz Ascher, German Expressionist artist |
Mar 29 |
Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885) |
Mar 30 |
Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885) |
Mar 30 |
Lev Kuleshov, Po zakonu |
Mar 31 |
Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 75 |
Apr 4 |
Byron Foulger, actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70 |
Apr 5 |
Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor, dies at 78 |
Apr 5 |
Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891) |
Apr 6 |
Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923) |
Apr 6 |
Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933) |
Apr 7 |
Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies |
Apr 8 |
Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies |
Apr 9 |
Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896) |
Apr 10 |
Charles Paton, dies at 96 |
Apr 11 |
Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66 |
Apr 11 |
John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65 |
Apr 15 |
Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904) |
Apr 16 |
Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892) |
Apr 17 |
Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92 |
Apr 23 |
Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51 |
Apr 25 |
Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55 |
Apr 26 |
Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56 |
Apr 26 |
John Knittel, writer, dies at 79 |
Apr 26 |
Paul Celan, writer, dies at 49 [or May 5] |
Apr 26 |
Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886) |
Apr 27 |
Arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73 |
Apr 28 |
Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 |
Apr 30 |
Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82 |
Apr 30 |
Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 |
Apr 30 |
Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71 |
May 1 |
Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897) |
May 3 |
Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82 |
May 4 |
4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard |
May 4 |
William Schroeder (b. 1950) |
May 4 |
Piero Pierotti, Erik the Conqueror |
May 7 |
Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60 |
May 8 |
László Kemény, Baleset |
May 9 |
Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84 |
May 9 |
Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies |
May 9 |
Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884) |
May 11 |
Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906) |
May 12 |
leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78 |
May 12 |
Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 |
May 12 |
Carlo Morelli, La bella Rita |
May 13 |
Alessandro De Stefani, The Siege of the Alcazar |
May 14 |
Billie Burke, American actress (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 85 |
May 17 |
Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 |
May 19 |
Ilya Nusinov, Rasputin |
May 21 |
Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63 |
May 21 |
E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885) |
May 21 |
Erich Stuckmann, The Last Ten Days |
May 22 |
Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 |
May 23 |
Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68 |
May 27 |
Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 |
May 29 |
John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 |
May 29 |
Eve Hesse, German born Jewish American sculptor dies of a brain tumour aged 34 |
May 31 |
Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender, dies from injuries suffered during an off-ice scuffle with a teammate at 40 |
Jun 1 |
G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82 |
Jun 2 |
Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937) |
Jun 2 |
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888) |
Jun 2 |
Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
Jun 3 |
Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Fries boer/writer, dies at 70 |
Jun 3 |
H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies |
Jun 4 |
Hjalmar Schcacht, [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies |
Jun 4 |
Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies |
Jun 4 |
Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78 |
Jun 4 |
Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58 |
Jun 5 |
"Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54 |
Jun 5 |
Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69 |
Jun 7 |
Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 |
Jun 7 |
E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879) |
Jun 7 |
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India |
Jun 8 |
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908) |
Jun 11 |
Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89 |
Jun 11 |
Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87 |
Jun 11 |
Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies |
Jun 11 |
Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55 |
Jun 11 |
Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931) |
Jun 11 |
William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921) |
Jun 16 |
Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73 |
Jun 16 |
Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83 |
Jun 16 |
Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943) |
Jun 17 |
Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies |
Jun 17 |
Eddie Cole, The Tiger Moth |
Jun 21 |
Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68 |
Jun 21 |
Victor M. Gover, Strangler's Morgue |
Jun 23 |
Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895) |
Jun 27 |
Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902) |
Jun 29 |
Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77 |
Jun 29 |
Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), dies at 64 |
Jul 2 |
Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies |
Jul 4 |
Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 |
Jul 4 |
Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905) |
Jul 5 |
David Saperton, Carnegie Hall |
Jul 6 |
Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80 |
Jul 7 |
Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67 |
Jul 7 |
Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies |
Jul 7 |
Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80 |
Jul 7 |
Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60 |
Jul 7 |
Dame Laura Knight, British impressionist artist |
Jul 8 |
C.A. Riggs, A Streetcar Named Desire |
Jul 8 |
Al Riggs, Rope |
Jul 14 |
Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69 |
Jul 17 |
Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74 |
Jul 18 |
Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 |
Jul 19 |
Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61 |
Jul 20 |
Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913) |
Jul 21 |
Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907) |
Jul 21 |
Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945) |
Jul 22 |
George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912) |
Jul 24 |
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897) |
Jul 26 |
Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81 |
Jul 26 |
Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896) |
Jul 27 |
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies |
Jul 29 |
John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70 |
Jul 29 |
Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69 |
Jul 30 |
George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73 |
Jul 31 |
Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912) |
Aug 1 |
Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come & Get It), dies at 55 |
Aug 1 |
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German Biochemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 |
Aug 6 |
Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58 |
Aug 7 |
... Haley, US judge, shot dead |
Aug 7 |
James McClain, US black activist, shot dead |
Aug 7 |
Jonathan P Jackson, US black activist, shot dead |
Aug 7 |
William Christmas, US black activist, shot dead |
Aug 10 |
Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52 |
Aug 13 |
Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75 |
Aug 14 |
Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62 |
Aug 15 |
Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66 |
Aug 17 |
Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908) |
Aug 19 |
Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909) |
Aug 20 |
Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86 |
Aug 21 |
Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79 |
Aug 22 |
Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78 |
Aug 22 |
Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895) |
Aug 23 |
Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55 |
Aug 29 |
Mary Clare, dies at 76 |
Aug 30 |
Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41 |
Aug 30 |
Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53 |
Aug 30 |
Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916) |
Sep 1 |
Francois Mauriac, writer, dies |
Sep 2 |
Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64 |
Sep 2 |
Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63 |
Sep 3 |
Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27 |
Sep 3 |
Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28 |
Sep 3 |
Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57 |
Sep 4 |
James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39 |
Sep 6 |
Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies |
Sep 8 |
Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894) |
Sep 10 |
Cy Denneny, Canadian ice hockey hall of famer, dies at 78 |
Sep 11 |
Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69 |
Sep 14 |
Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 |
Sep 18 |
Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of a drug overdose at 27 |
Sep 19 |
Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29), dies |
Sep 21 |
Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies |
Sep 23 |
Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917) |
Sep 25 |
Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73 |
Sep 25 |
Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72 |
Sep 28 |
Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52 |
Sep 28 |
John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74 |
Sep 29 |
Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84 |
Sep 30 |
Patrick Aherne, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69 |
Sep 30 |
Perc Westmore, Casablanca |
Oct 1 |
Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52 |
Oct 1 |
Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87 |
Oct 1 |
Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893) |
Oct 2 |
Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79 |
Oct 2 |
Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37 |
Oct 4 |
George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71 |
Oct 4 |
Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27 |
Oct 8 |
Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 |
Oct 8 |
Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies |
Oct 8 |
Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934) |
Oct 9 |
Jean Giono, writer, dies |
Oct 10 |
Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 |
Oct 10 |
Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 |
Oct 11 |
Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69 |
Oct 12 |
Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930) |
Oct 12 |
Yuli Fogelman, Deserter |
Oct 13 |
Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90 |
Oct 17 |
Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921) |
Oct 17 |
Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897) |
Oct 19 |
Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54 |
Oct 20 |
Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44 |
Oct 21 |
John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 |
Oct 22 |
René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered |
Oct 24 |
Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54 |
Oct 28 |
Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies |
Oct 28 |
Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99 |
Nov 2 |
Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75 |
Nov 2 |
Phillip W. Booker, Four Jills in a Jeep |
Nov 2 |
Fernand Gravey, How to Steal a Million |
Nov 3 |
Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57 |
Nov 4 |
Tudor Musatescu, Titanic Waltz |
Nov 6 |
Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900) |
Nov 8 |
Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892) |
Nov 9 |
William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84 |
Nov 9 |
Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79 |
Nov 10 |
Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 |
Nov 17 |
Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69 |
Nov 18 |
Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56 |
Nov 21 |
Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887) |
Nov 21 |
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) |
Nov 23 |
Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 |
Nov 24 |
Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76 |
Nov 25 |
Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 |
Nov 26 |
B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago |
Nov 28 |
Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85 |
Nov 28 |
Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55 |
Nov 29 |
Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65 |
Nov 30 |
Gerhard T. Buchholz, Many Passed By |
Dec 1 |
Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies |
Dec 6 |
Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65 |
Dec 7 |
Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 |
Dec 7 |
Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard), American painter dies aged 96 |
Dec 8 |
Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 |
Dec 9 |
Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65 |
Dec 9 |
Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893) |
Dec 12 |
Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82 |
Dec 12 |
Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889) |
Dec 14 |
Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876) |
Dec 23 |
Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84 |
Dec 26 |
Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948) |
Dec 28 |
L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 |
Dec 29 |
John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 |
Dec 29 |
Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909) |
Dec 29 |
William King Gregory, American palaeontologist (mammalian teeth, evolutionary theory), dies at 94 |
Dec 30 |
Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), dies at 38 |
Dec 31 |
Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 |
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