David Broekman, musician (Think Fast), dies at 55
Jan 1st - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
Jan 4th - Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75
Jan 6th - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85
Jan 7th - Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
Jan 8th - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
Jan 9th - Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies
Jan 10th - Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52
Jan 11th - Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65
Jan 12th - Arthur Shepherd, composer, dies at 77
Jan 12th - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
Jan 13th - Edna Purviance, actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61
Jan 13th - John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75
Jan 13th - Jesse L. Lasky, U.S. film producer (b. 1880)
Jan 23rd - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
Jan 30th - Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70
Jan 30th - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
Feb 1st - Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies
Feb 3rd - Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
Feb 3rd - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81
Feb 4th - Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
Feb 5th - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
Feb 6th - 7 Manchester United soccer players die in an air crash near Munich
Feb 6th - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
Feb 6th - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
Feb 6th - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
Feb 6th - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
Feb 6th - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
Feb 6th - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
Feb 6th - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
Feb 7th - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
Feb 10th - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
Feb 11th - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
Feb 12th - Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
Feb 13th - Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86
Feb 13th - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
Feb 14th - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
Feb 17th - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
Feb 20th - Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75
Feb 21st - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
Feb 22nd - Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
Feb 24th - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
Feb 27th - Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
Mar 1st - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
Mar 2nd - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
Mar 4th - Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
Mar 8th - Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
Mar 11th - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
Mar 12th - Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
Mar 14th - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
Mar 16th - Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
Mar 19th - Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
Mar 21st - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
Mar 22nd - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
Mar 23rd - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
Mar 25th - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
Mar 25th - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
Mar 26th - Phil Mead, cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
Mar 28th - Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
Mar 28th - William Christopher Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 in New York
Apr 2nd - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
Apr 3rd - Theodor Kramer, writer, dies
Apr 4th - Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
Apr 4th - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
Apr 5th - Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at 87
Apr 7th - Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
Apr 7th - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
Apr 8th - Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
Apr 10th - Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
Apr 11th - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
Apr 15th - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
Apr 16th - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
Apr 18th - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85
Apr 18th - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies
Apr 26th - Joe Small, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 1928 series), dies
Apr 26th - Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68
May 2nd - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
May 3rd - Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
May 7th - Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
May 8th - Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
May 9th - Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
May 15th - Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
May 16th - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
May 19th - Bruno Sturmer, composer, dies at 65
May 19th - Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
May 19th - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
May 25th - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa), dies
May 27th - Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
May 27th - Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
May 28th - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77
May 29th - Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76
Jun 4th - M Lichnowsky, writer, dies at 79
Jun 6th - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
Jun 7th - Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies
Jun 9th - Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53
Jun 10th - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
Jun 13th - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
Jun 15th - Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
Jun 16th - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
Jun 16th - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
Jun 18th - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England), dies
Jun 20th - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
Jun 23rd - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
Jun 26th - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93
Jun 26th - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
Jun 26th - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
Jun 27th - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78
Jun 28th - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
Jun 28th - George Gunn, cricketer (15 Tests for England), dies at 50
Jun 29th - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
Jul 1st - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
Jul 1st - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
Jul 1st - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
Jul 4th - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
Jul 7th - Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
Jul 11th - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
Jul 13th - Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday
Jul 14th - Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
Jul 14th - Emil Barth, writer, dies at 58
Jul 14th - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
Jul 14th - Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond, dies at 62
Jul 14th - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
Jul 15th - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
Jul 15th - Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies
Jul 18th - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
Jul 18th - John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
Jul 19th - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
Jul 20th - Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69
Jul 22nd - Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
Jul 22nd - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
Jul 22nd - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
Jul 25th - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
Jul 25th - Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
Jul 27th - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
Jul 29th - Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
Jul 30th - Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
Aug 2nd - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
Aug 3rd - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
Aug 4th - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
Aug 5th - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
Aug 9th - Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74
Aug 10th - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
Aug 13th - Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)
Aug 14th - Big Bill Broonzy, rocker, dies of cancer at 65
Aug 14th - Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
Aug 14th - Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
Aug 14th - Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
Aug 15th - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
Aug 16th - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85
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