Notable Deaths - 1972
1972 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 |
Jan 1 |
Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 |
Jan 3 |
Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82 |
Jan 4 |
Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57 |
Jan 6 |
Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901) |
Jan 7 |
Clarence Passailaigue, cricketer (487 for 6th wkt for Jamaica), dies |
Jan 7 |
John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies |
Jan 7 |
Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist |
Jan 8 |
Kenneth Patchen, US writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60 |
Jan 9 |
Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80 |
Jan 10 |
Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 |
Jan 10 |
Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68 |
Jan 10 |
Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82 |
Jan 10 |
Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897) |
Jan 12 |
Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 |
Jan 14 |
Frederik IX, [Christiaan FFMKW], king of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72 |
Jan 14 |
Don Ornitz, Man's Favorite Sport? |
Jan 15 |
Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881) |
Jan 16 |
David Seville, singer (Alvin & Chipmunks), dies at 52 |
Jan 16 |
Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895) |
Jan 17 |
Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55 |
Jan 17 |
Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896) |
Jan 18 |
Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69 |
Jan 19 |
Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936) |
Jan 20 |
Lloyd Akridge, Artistry in Rhythm |
Jan 24 |
Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie), dies at 74 |
Jan 25 |
Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892) |
Jan 27 |
Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60 |
Jan 27 |
Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84 |
Jan 28 |
Adriaan B "Jaap" Wagemaker, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66 |
Jan 30 |
Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81 |
Jan 31 |
Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51 |
Jan 31 |
Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79 |
Jan 31 |
Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67 |
Feb 2 |
Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67 |
Feb 2 |
Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876) |
Feb 3 |
John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79 |
Feb 5 |
Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84 |
Feb 6 |
Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American), dies at 70 |
Feb 8 |
Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905) |
Feb 11 |
Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80 |
Feb 14 |
Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65 |
Feb 15 |
Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 |
Feb 15 |
Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 |
Feb 16 |
Rakhim Pirmukhamedov, Pokhozhdeniya Nasreddina |
Feb 17 |
Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer, dies at 67 |
Feb 19 |
John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) |
Feb 19 |
Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906) |
Feb 20 |
Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69 |
Feb 20 |
Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love & Hisses), dies at 74 |
Feb 21 |
Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891) |
Feb 21 |
Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884) |
Feb 22 |
Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65 |
Feb 23 |
Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81 |
Feb 26 |
Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50 |
Feb 27 |
Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914) |
Feb 28 |
Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies |
Mar 1 |
Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63 |
Mar 2 |
Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 |
Mar 3 |
Fredy Barten, The Singing Ringing Tree |
Mar 5 |
Nils Bjorkander, composer, dies at 78 |
Mar 8 |
Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899) |
Mar 11 |
Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 |
Mar 13 |
Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941) |
Mar 14 |
Norman Cohn, Sport Slants |
Mar 15 |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910) |
Mar 16 |
Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72 |
Mar 17 |
Manny Martindale, cricketer (10 Tests for WI, 34 wickets), dies |
Mar 20 |
Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 |
Mar 20 |
Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 |
Mar 20 |
Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50 |
Mar 22 |
Clarence Marks, Two Knights from Brooklyn |
Mar 27 |
Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 |
Mar 27 |
Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904) |
Mar 29 |
J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate |
Mar 30 |
Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81 |
Mar 30 |
Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55 |
Mar 30 |
Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890) |
Mar 31 |
Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932) |
Apr 2 |
Gil Hodges, manager (NY Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 |
Apr 2 |
Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) |
Apr 2 |
Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887) |
Apr 3 |
Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80 |
Apr 3 |
Ferde Grofe, US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80 |
Apr 4 |
Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63 |
Apr 4 |
John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies |
Apr 4 |
Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69 |
Apr 5 |
Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73 |
Apr 5 |
Isabel Jewell, dies at 62 |
Apr 7 |
"Crazy" Joe Gallo, American mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party by rival mobsters |
Apr 7 |
Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered |
Apr 7 |
Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65 |
Apr 12 |
C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57 |
Apr 12 |
Henri Potiron, composer, dies at 89 |
Apr 12 |
C.W. Ceram, Valley of the Kings |
Apr 15 |
Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 |
Apr 16 |
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 |
Apr 19 |
Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82 |
Apr 21 |
Sergey Tikhonov, Delovye lyudi |
Apr 21 |
Ezio D'Errico, Cortocircuito |
Apr 25 |
George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 |
Apr 26 |
Margaret A R Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59 |
Apr 26 |
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) |
Apr 27 |
Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 |
Apr 27 |
Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling |
Apr 27 |
Joseph J. Weston, Over My Dead Body |
Apr 29 |
Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup |
Apr 30 |
Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38 |
Apr 30 |
Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered |
May 1 |
Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82 |
May 2 |
Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69 |
May 2 |
J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77 |
May 2 |
J. Edgar Hoover, Walk East on Beacon! |
May 3 |
Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68 |
May 3 |
Les Harvey, rocker, dies |
May 4 |
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886) |
May 5 |
Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76 |
May 6 |
Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947) |
May 6 |
Kazimierz Talarczyk, Our Folks |
May 13 |
Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43 |
May 15 |
Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47 |
May 16 |
Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 |
May 18 |
Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer, dies at 53 |
May 18 |
Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth |
May 20 |
Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78 |
May 20 |
Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75 |
May 22 |
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80 |
May 24 |
Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88 |
May 24 |
Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64 |
May 24 |
Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1915) |
May 28 |
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies at 77 |
May 29 |
Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902) |
May 29 |
Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878) |
May 30 |
Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104 |
May 31 |
Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895) |
Jun 2 |
Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81 |
Jun 4 |
Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79 |
Jun 8 |
Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68 |
Jun 11 |
Eero Väre, Frozen Land |
Jun 12 |
Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79 |
Jun 12 |
Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 |
Jun 13 |
Clyde L Mcphatter, US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39 |
Jun 13 |
Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925) |
Jun 20 |
Horst Salomon, writer, dies |
Jun 20 |
Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 |
Jun 21 |
Seth Bingham, composer, dies at 90 |
Jun 23 |
Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54 |
Jun 26 |
David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 |
Jun 28 |
David Lichine, Make Mine Music |
Jul 2 |
Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95 |
Jul 3 |
Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68 |
Jul 6 |
Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash |
Jul 6 |
Sam de Grasse, dies at 97 |
Jul 6 |
Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies |
Jul 7 |
Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies |
Jul 7 |
King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909) |
Jul 9 |
Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903) |
Jul 9 |
Robert Weede, The Stingiest Man in Town |
Jul 10 |
Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887) |
Jul 15 |
Fonty Flock, |
Jul 16 |
Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65 |
Jul 16 |
Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70 |
Jul 19 |
Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884) |
Jul 21 |
Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies |
Jul 21 |
Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889) |
Jul 22 |
Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84 |
Jul 22 |
Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78 |
Jul 24 |
Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl |
Jul 28 |
Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903) |
Jul 28 |
Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918) |
Jul 28 |
Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Border Street |
Jul 31 |
Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/sect-gen (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73 |
Aug 2 |
Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 |
Aug 2 |
Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60 |
Aug 2 |
Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95 |
Aug 2 |
Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887) |
Aug 5 |
Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 |
Aug 5 |
Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905) |
Aug 7 |
Joi Lansing, actress (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 44 of cancer |
Aug 8 |
Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948) |
Aug 9 |
Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53 |
Aug 9 |
Richard Elsasser, composer, dies at 45 |
Aug 11 |
Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73 |
Aug 13 |
George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies at 78 |
Aug 13 |
Édouard Harispuru, Le Plaisir |
Aug 14 |
Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 |
Aug 14 |
Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65 |
Aug 14 |
Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66 |
Aug 15 |
Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89 |
Aug 16 |
John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39 |
Aug 17 |
Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 |
Aug 17 |
Wampilow, writer, dies |
Aug 23 |
Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68 |
Aug 24 |
Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59 |
Aug 25 |
Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71 |
Aug 25 |
Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80 |
Aug 26 |
Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 |
Aug 28 |
William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 |
Aug 29 |
Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Ger night club performer/singer, dies |
Aug 29 |
Rene Leibowitz, composer, dies at 59 |
Sep 1 |
May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84 |
Sep 4 |
Alan Kippax, cricketer (1st-class batting average 67), dies |
Sep 5 |
Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered |
Sep 5 |
Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered |
Sep 7 |
Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81 |
Sep 10 |
Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies |
Sep 11 |
Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883) |
Sep 12 |
William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77 |
Sep 14 |
Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70 |
Sep 15 |
Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66 |
Sep 15 |
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887) |
Sep 17 |
Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72 |
Sep 19 |
Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899) |
Sep 21 |
Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 |
Sep 22 |
Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 |
Sep 23 |
Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63 |
Sep 26 |
Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin & the Colonel), dies at 82 |
Sep 26 |
Charles J. Correll, The Amos 'n Andy Show |
Sep 27 |
Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm & Hurricane), commits suicide |
Sep 27 |
S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892) |
Sep 28 |
Maurice Thiriet, composer, dies at 66 |
Oct 1 |
Kurt Hiller, writer, dies at 87 |
Oct 1 |
Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 |
Oct 1 |
Ethel Winthrop, Lafayette, We Come |
Oct 4 |
Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61 |
Oct 4 |
Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68 |
Oct 9 |
Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72 |
Oct 9 |
Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69 |
Oct 14 |
Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68 |
Oct 16 |
Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 |
Oct 16 |
Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914) |
Oct 17 |
Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914) |
Oct 17 |
Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887) |
Oct 17 |
Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910) |
Oct 18 |
Ken Wishart, cricketer (WI opening batsman in one Test 1935), dies |
Oct 20 |
Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86 |
Oct 22 |
Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies |
Oct 24 |
Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53 |
Oct 25 |
Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72 |
Oct 26 |
Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83 |
Oct 26 |
Mark Toby, The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
Oct 27 |
Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65 |
Oct 30 |
Alan Roth, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68 |
Oct 31 |
Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916) |
Nov 1 |
Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87 |
Nov 4 |
Davison Clark, The Scarlet Empress |
Nov 5 |
Reginald Owen, actor (Above Suspicion, Love on the Run), dies at 85 |
Nov 6 |
Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21 |
Nov 6 |
Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52 |
Nov 7 |
Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 51 |
Nov 10 |
Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies |
Nov 11 |
Berry Oakley, US rock bassist (Allman Bro), dies in car crash at 24 |
Nov 11 |
Berry Oakley, |
Nov 12 |
Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92 |
Nov 14 |
Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies |
Nov 16 |
Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87 |
Nov 16 |
Aleksandr Razumnyj, Banda batki Knysha |
Nov 18 |
Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose |
Nov 18 |
Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90 |
Nov 23 |
Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56 |
Nov 24 |
Hall Overton, US composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52 |
Nov 24 |
Hal Overton, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers |
Nov 24 |
Alexander Smallens, The River |
Nov 25 |
Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79 |
Nov 25 |
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886) |
Nov 28 |
Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91 |
Nov 28 |
Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96 |
Nov 29 |
Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888) |
Nov 30 |
Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71 |
Nov 30 |
Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies |
Nov 30 |
Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70 |
Dec 1 |
Antonio Segni, Italian PM/pres (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 |
Dec 2 |
Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies |
Dec 2 |
Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64 |
Dec 3 |
Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872) |
Dec 5 |
Kenny Dorham [McKinley], American jazz trumpeter, dies at 48 |
Dec 6 |
Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38 |
Dec 7 |
Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91 |
Dec 8 |
George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash |
Dec 9 |
Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881) |
Dec 10 |
Mark A Van Doren, US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78 |
Dec 11 |
John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies |
Dec 11 |
Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66 |
Dec 15 |
Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 |
Dec 15 |
Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 |
Dec 17 |
Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 |
Dec 19 |
Alexander Uninski, La rebelión de los fantasmas |
Dec 21 |
Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 |
Dec 23 |
Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84 |
Dec 23 |
Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79 |
Dec 23 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born Jewish American rabbi and theologian dies in New York aged 65 |
Dec 23 |
Nikola Mitic, Samrtno prolece |
Dec 24 |
Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79 |
Dec 24 |
Ernst Kreuder, writer, dies at 69 |
Dec 24 |
Stanislaw Winczewski, The Saragossa Manuscript |
Dec 26 |
Harry Truman, 33rd US President (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88 |
Dec 27 |
Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister (Nobel 1957), dies at 75 |
Dec 29 |
Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 |
Dec 31 |
Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 |
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