| January 05 |
Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer
(1962-64), found dead at 36 |
| January 07 |
Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight,
Guess What), dies at 60 |
| January 07 |
Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall
Down), dies at 64 |
| January 08 |
Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at 85 |
| January 10 |
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion
designer, dies at 87 |
| January 13 |
Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, Germ SS-gen/contractor
(Tulle), dies at 65 |
| January 13 |
Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de
Ma?ara), dies at 69 |
| January 13 |
Robert Still, composer, dies at 60 |
| January 14 |
Ethel Glenn Hier, composer, dies at 82 |
| January 15 |
John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope),
dies of heart attack at 50 |
| January 16 |
Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday
Roundup), dies at 68 |
| January 18 |
Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of
Faith), dies of stroke at 80 |
| January 20 |
Gilbert M Anderson, actor (1st Movie
Cowboy), dies at 88 |
| January 21 |
Richard B Russell, (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73 |
| February 01 |
Jim A J Christy, cricket (10 Tests for S Af,
638 runs at 34 33), dies |
| February 03 |
Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies
at 72 |
| February 05 |
M?ty?s R?kosi, Hungarian premier
(1952..56), dies at 78 |
| February 11 |
Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League
director, drowns in Nigeria |
| February 12 |
George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be
Ignorant), dies at 86 |
| February 12 |
James Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney),
dies at 95 |
| February 15 |
Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at
63 |
| February 17 |
Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies
at 73 |
| February 21 |
Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79 |
| February 22 |
Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront),
dies at 81 |
| February 22 |
Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary
Coast), dies at 77 |
| February 22 |
Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82 |
| February 23 |
King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73 |
| February 26 |
Edward van der Merwe, cricket keeper (S Afr
in 2 Tests in 30's), dies |
| February 26 |
Fernandel, [Contandin], French actor (Death
of Champion), dies at 67 |
| February 26 |
Joseph Berg, composer, dies at 43 |
| February 26 |
Joseph Desire Fernandel, comedian, dies of
cancer at 67 |
| February 26 |
Tullio Carminati, actor (Roman Holiday,
Moulin Rouge), dies at 76 |
| March 02 |
Charles W Engelhard, US silver
multi-millionaire, dies at 54 |
| March 05 |
Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie,
Sit Tight), dies at 71 |
| March 06 |
Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't
Forget to Live), dies at 74 |
| March 08 |
Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry),
dies of cancer at 77 |
| March 09 |
Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer, dies at 36 |
| March 10 |
Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92 |
| March 11 |
Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at
64 |
| March 11 |
Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56 |
| March 11 |
Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban
League 1961-71), dies at 49 |
| March 13 |
Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82 |
| March 13 |
Rockwell Kens, US
artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88 |
| March 15 |
Jean-Pierre Monser?, Flemish cyclist, dies
at 22 |
| March 16 |
Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My
Past), dies at 70 |
| March 16 |
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Vict &
Aust), dies |
| March 16 |
Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R
1944, 48), dies at 68 |
| March 17 |
Ernst Bachmeister, writer, dies |
| March 18 |
George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper
(v S Africa 1924), dies |
| March 19 |
Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist
(Last Things), dies at 82 |
| March 19 |
Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79 |
| March 22 |
Martin Bodmer, writer, dies |
| March 23 |
Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67 |
| March 23 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass
Garden), dies at 72 |
| March 28 |
Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78 |
| March 30 |
Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of
Wyatt Earp), dies at 82 |
| March 31 |
Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress
(Child Crying), dies at 31 |
| April 03 |
Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66 |
| April 03 |
Manfred Bonnington Lee, [Ellery Queen],
detective writer, dies at 65 |
| April 06 |
Igor F Strawinsky, Russ composer (Le Sacre
du Printemps), dies at 88 |
| April 07 |
Charles F Pahud de Mortanges,
(Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74 |
| April 14 |
Armand Spitz, developer of small
educational planetarium, dies |
| April 16 |
Mih?ly V?ci, Hungarian poet/politician,
dies at 46 |
| April 17 |
Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62 |
| April 18 |
Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69 |
| April 20 |
Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester,
Operation Snafu), dies at 73 |
| April 21 |
Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective),
dies at 81 |
| April 21 |
Fran?ois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti,
dies at 64 |
| April 23 |
William Tubman, president of Liberia
(1944-71), dies at 76 |
| April 25 |
Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80 |
| April 30 |
Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at
70 |
| May 01 |
Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies
at 75 |
| May 01 |
Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam,
Exposed), dies at 66 |
| May 04 |
Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist
(Cyanosis), dies at 88 |
| May 04 |
Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor,
dies at 83 |
| May 04 |
Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch
actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87 |
| May 05 |
Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat),
dies of cancer at 81 |
| May 05 |
Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general,
killed by Mafia |
| May 06 |
Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress
(Metropolis), dies at 70 |
| May 07 |
Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist
(Karl Marx), dies at 83 |
| May 10 |
Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79 |
| May 10 |
Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75 |
| May 12 |
J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26,
997 runs), dies |
| May 13 |
Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky,
composer, dies 67 |
| May 19 |
Bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer, dies at
76 |
| May 19 |
Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade
Party), dies at 68 |
| May 21 |
Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies
of heart ailment at 73 |
| May 25 |
Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed
by 3 whites in Drew Miss |
| May 25 |
Mark Brunswick, composer, dies at 69 |
| May 25 |
Terence De Marney, actor (Case
Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62 |
| May 26 |
John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol),
dies at 70 |
| May 27 |
Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk
into Hell), dies at 62 |
| May 28 |
Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths),
dies at 46 |
| May 29 |
Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83 |
| May 30 |
Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra),
killed in plane crash at 46 |
| May 30 |
Marcel Dupr?, French composer, dies at 85 |
| May 30 |
Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in
Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66 |
| May 31 |
Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14
Tests after age 46), dies |
| May 31 |
Massimo Campigli, Italian
painter/illustrator, dies at 75 |
| May 31 |
Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at 78 |
| June 01 |
Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature &
Destiny of Man), dies at 78 |
| June 02 |
Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director
(Evil Eye), dies at 66 |
| June 04 |
Gy?rgy Luk?cs, Hungarian philosopher, dies
at 86 |
| June 06 |
Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63 |
| June 08 |
Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's
Daughter), dies at 40 |
| June 09 |
Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's
Daughter), dies at 40 |
| June 10 |
Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood
Still), dies at 61 |
| June 10 |
Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart
attack at 82 |
| June 17 |
C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant
batsman for Phila), dies |
| June 23 |
George Blagoi, entertainer, dies |
| June 23 |
Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76 |
| June 24 |
Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies |
| June 24 |
John Dunning, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ
1933-37), dies |
| June 24 |
Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt
Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53 |
| June 25 |
Charles Vildrac, Paris France,
poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
| June 26 |
Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at
91 |
| June 26 |
Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies |
| June 26 |
Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88 |
| June 27 |
Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt
Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53 |
| June 28 |
Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity),
dies at 78 |
| June 28 |
Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48 |
| June 29 |
Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz
11-land accident), dies at 43 |
| June 29 |
Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz
11-landing accident), dies at 38 |
| June 29 |
Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz
11-landing accident), dies at 35 |
| June 30 |
Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut
(Soyuz 11), dies at 43 |
| June 30 |
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut
(Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35 |
| July 01 |
Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer
(all-rounder & fielder), dies |
| July 02 |
Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84 |
| July 03 |
Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of
heart failure at 27 |
| July 03 |
Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long
illness at 71 |
| July 04 |
Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29 |
| July 04 |
Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests
for South Africa), dies |
| July 04 |
Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander
(Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 |
| July 06 |
Horst Lange, writer, dies at 66 |
| July 06 |
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician
(Hello Dolly), dies at 71 |
| July 06 |
Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander
(Asiatic fleet), dies |
| July 10 |
Harry M O'Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98 |
| July 10 |
Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist,
shot to death |
| July 11 |
Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last
Resorts), dies at 64 |
| July 11 |
John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Space
Beyond), dies at 61 |
| July 15 |
Guy Wilkerson, dies of cancer at 71 |
| July 16 |
H T Tsiang, dies at 65 |
| July 17 |
Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th
Street Revue), dies at 76 |
| July 23 |
Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies
at 60 |
| July 24 |
Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66 |
| July 25 |
Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74 |
| July 27 |
Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian
conductor/composer, dies at 83 |
| July 28 |
Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer
(Vogue), commits suicide at 48 |
| August 02 |
Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at
77 |
| August 05 |
Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 |
| August 13 |
King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US musician,
murdered at 37 |
| August 14 |
Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer,
dies at 59 |
| August 15 |
Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express),
dies of heart failure at 76 |
| August 16 |
Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley
House), dies at 78 |
| August 17 |
Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private
Eye), dies at 64 |
| August 19 |
Walther Victor, writer, dies |
| August 21 |
George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death
at 29 |
| August 23 |
Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at
58 |
| August 23 |
Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning,
Stagecoach), dies at 64 |
| August 25 |
Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman],
bandleader, dies at 80 |
| August 26 |
Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at
88 |
| August 27 |
Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist
(What's My Line), dies at 73 |
| August 27 |
Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer,
dies at 67 |
| August 28 |
Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of
Bobby Franks (1924), dies |
| September 03 |
Percy Holmes, cricketer (Yorks opener, 7
Tests for Eng 1921-32), dies |
| September 03 |
Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies
at 68 |
| September 07 |
Spring Byington, actress (Lily
Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84 |
| September 09 |
Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator,
His Gal Friday), dies at 76 |
| September 10 |
Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits
suicide at 42 |
| September 10 |
Pier Angeli, actress (Octaman), dies of
barbiturate overdose at 39 |
| September 11 |
Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack
at 77 |
| September 11 |
Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly
Hillbillies), dies at 77 |
| September 12 |
Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies
at 63 |
| September 13 |
Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air
crash at 63 [or Sept 13] |
| September 13 |
Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent
Waters), dies at 72 |
| September 13 |
Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in
Moscow |
| September 14 |
Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler
before & after WW2), dies |
| September 16 |
Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher
(Descartes), dies at 77 |
| September 20 |
James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime
McPheeters), dies at 59 |
| September 20 |
William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies
at 80 |
| September 20 |
Y?rgos Sef?ris, [Seferi?dis], Greek
diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies |
| September 22 |
Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of
heart attack at 67 |
| September 22 |
Yvonne St Clair, dancer, dies at 57 |
| September 23 |
Billy Gilbert, actor (Paradise Alley,
Safari, Rio), dies at 77 |
| September 25 |
TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of
cancer at 50 |
| September 26 |
Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast
Workers), dies of emphysema at 68 |
| October 03 |
Leah Baird, writer (Jungle Bride), dies of
anemia at 88 |
| October 03 |
Sean O Riada, composer, dies at 40 |
| October 04 |
Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue
Angel), dies at 76 |
| October 08 |
Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the
Badge), dies at 51 |
| October 08 |
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies
at 79 |
| October 11 |
Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern
Times), dies at 83 |
| October 11 |
Ralph J Bunche, 1st black US diplomat
(Nobel 1950), dies at 67 |
| October 12 |
Dean G Acheson, US foreign minister
(1949-53), dies at 78 |
| October 12 |
Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding
ulcers at 36 |
| October 19 |
Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies
at 89 |
| October 19 |
Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies
after brief illness at 64 |
| October 21 |
Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner
(Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48 |
| October 21 |
Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison),
dies of heart attack at 84 |
| October 24 |
Carl Ruggles, US composer (Evocations),
dies at 95 |
| October 24 |
Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during
game & later, dies |
| October 24 |
Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer/conductor
(Guerre), dies at 73 |
| October 25 |
Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum,
actor/director (King Lear), dies at 82 |
| October 26 |
Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless),
dies at 76 |
| October 28 |
Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74 |
| October 29 |
Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a
motorcycle accident at 24 |
| October 30 |
Osvald Chlubna, composer, dies at 78 |
| October 31 |
Gerhard von Rad, German old testament
expert, dies at 70 |
| November 01 |
G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95 |
| November 02 |
Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies
after long illness at 46 |
| November 03 |
Etienne Gailly, Belg marathoner
(Oly-bron-48), dies in accident at 48 |
| November 09 |
Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90 |
| November 10 |
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow
Incident), dies at 62 |
| November 16 |
Charlie Dell, comedian, dies at 90 |
| November 16 |
Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of
barbiturate overdose at 28 |
| November 17 |
Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The
Rogues), dies at 83 |
| November 17 |
Jackie Cooper, actor (People's Choice),
dies at 49 |
| November 17 |
Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of
Joy), dies of cancer at 75 |
| November 18 |
Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain
operation at 44 |
| November 19 |
Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night
Fights), dies at 64 |
| November 22 |
Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies
of heart attack at 65 |
| November 23 |
Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening
bowler (1932), dies |
| November 25 |
Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at
84 |
| November 26 |
Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY &
NJ, dies at 68 |
| November 27 |
Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86 |
| November 27 |
Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art
historian, dies at 70 |
| November 28 |
Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by
Black Sept in Cairo |
| November 29 |
Heinz Tiessen, composer, dies at 84 |
| December 01 |
Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman
(1940-65), dies at 93 |
| December 04 |
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF
Zen Center, dies |
| December 05 |
Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit),
dies |
| December 06 |
Hugo Godron, composer, dies at 71 |
| December 06 |
Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder
(Plough), dies at 86 |
| December 07 |
Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red
Barn), dies at 90 |
| December 09 |
Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize
winner, dies at 67 in NYC |
| December 10 |
Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch min of
Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57 |
| December 12 |
David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at
80 |
| December 12 |
Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last
Gun), suicide at 43 |
| December 12 |
Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator,
assassinated |
| December 12 |
John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of
Pavlov), dies at 47 |
| December 13 |
Max Mell, Austria artillery
officer/literary, dies at 88 |
| December 18 |
Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in
chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 |
| December 18 |
Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam
1930), dies at 69 |
| December 18 |
Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy
Come Easy Go), dies at 45 |
| December 20 |
Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of
cerebral hemorrhage at 78 |
| December 22 |
Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer
(Eric), dies at 58 |
| December 22 |
Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart
attack at 63 |
| December 23 |
Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84 |
| December 25 |
Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70 |
| December 26 |
Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols
'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 |
| December 28 |
Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer,
dies at 83 |
| December 29 |
Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at
87 |
| December 30 |
Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane),
dies after illness at 58 |
| December 30 |
Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60 |
| December 31 |
Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a
Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 |