| January 02 |
Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee),
dies at 67 |
| January 03 |
Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies
at 72 |
| January 04 |
Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70 |
| January 05 |
Roy Bargy, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show),
dies at 79 |
| January 06 |
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican
sculptor/muralist, dies at 77 |
| January 14 |
Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament
chairman, dies at 62 |
| January 15 |
Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76 |
| January 20 |
Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 |
| January 21 |
Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 |
| January 21 |
Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for S
Africa 1930-47), dies |
| January 21 |
Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Comm
(1953-58), dies at 78 |
| January 22 |
Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at
64 |
| January 26 |
S v Vegesack, writer, dies at 85 |
| January 26 |
Wiktor Labunski, composer, dies at 78 |
| January 27 |
Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on
Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75 |
| January 27 |
Paula Ludwig, writer, dies at 74 |
| January 28 |
Dino Buzzati, writer, dies at 67 |
| January 30 |
Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa
1910-11 series), dies |
| January 31 |
Glenn Morris, olympian/actor (Tarzan's
Revenge), dies at 61 |
| January 31 |
Harry Baum, actor (Crime & Punishment), dies at
58 |
| January 31 |
Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre),
dies at 72 |
| January 31 |
Roger Pryor, actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72 |
| January 31 |
Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate
(MGM), dies at 91 |
| February 01 |
Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim,
abducted in Seattle |
| February 01 |
Marieluise Fleiᥲ, writer, dies at 71 |
| February 02 |
Jean Absil, Belgian composer (B?n?dictions),
dies at 80 |
| February 04 |
Mihail Andricu, composer, dies at 79 |
| February 07 |
Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at
61 |
| February 08 |
Fern Andra, dies at 80 |
| February 08 |
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova),
dies at 75 |
| February 09 |
Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60 |
| February 11 |
Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell &
Son), dies at 85 |
| February 14 |
C S Dempster, cricketer (10 Tests for NZ, 723
runs), dies |
| February 15 |
Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86 |
| February 20 |
David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85 |
| February 23 |
Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313,
Carnival), dies at 63 |
| February 27 |
Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers
Show), dies at 59 |
| February 28 |
Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain,
dies at 89 |
| March 01 |
Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren
Holte), dies at 53 |
| March 02 |
Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna
Show), dies at 41 |
| March 03 |
Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless
Fagan), dies at 43 |
| March 03 |
Frank Wilcox, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies),
dies at 66 |
| March 04 |
Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71 |
| March 05 |
Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies
at 67 |
| March 05 |
Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, US impresario, dies at
85 |
| March 08 |
Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc),
dies at 56 |
| March 08 |
Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk
Stockings), dies at 56 |
| March 09 |
Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel
1971), dies at 58 |
| March 10 |
June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless),
dies at 48 |
| March 10 |
Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76 |
| March 12 |
Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated |
| March 13 |
Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr
Lewis-Hank), dies at 68 |
| March 13 |
Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show),
dies at 52 |
| March 17 |
Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at
72 |
| March 17 |
Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at
about 73 |
| March 18 |
David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at
87 |
| March 19 |
Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51 |
| March 19 |
Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at
58 |
| March 19 |
Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of
Otto K, dies at 70 |
| March 20 |
Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley
Report), dies at 62 |
| March 20 |
[Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black US advocate
in Virg, dies at 83 |
| March 21 |
Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female
impersonator, dies |
| March 22 |
Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis
500), dies at 35 |
| March 24 |
Doris Deane, dies at 74 |
| March 24 |
Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern
sukiya style), dies at 79 |
| March 25 |
Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand),
dies at 72 |
| March 28 |
Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look
Tonight), dies at 68 |
| March 28 |
Fran?oise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in
Prison), dies at 82 |
| March 29 |
Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71 |
| March 30 |
Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in
Freedom), dies at 79 |
| March 31 |
Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin,
Black Sunday), dies at 57 |
| April 01 |
Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86 |
| April 02 |
Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to
Town), dies at 84 |
| April 02 |
Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in
Paris at 62 |
| April 05 |
William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at
49 |
| April 06 |
Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town
Hall), dies at 89 |
| April 10 |
Patricia Collinge, dies at 81 |
| April 10 |
Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76 |
| April 11 |
Curt Conway, dies |
| April 12 |
Carl Jaffe, dies at 72 |
| April 13 |
Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup
to Nuts), dies at 71 |
| April 17 |
Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at
52 |
| April 17 |
Herbert Elwell, US composer (Happy Hypocrite),
dies at 75 |
| April 17 |
Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a
drug overdose |
| April 18 |
Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River,
Drag Net), dies at 77 |
| April 18 |
Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz),
dies at 79 |
| April 20 |
Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched),
dies at 67 |
| April 20 |
Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president
(Pakistan), dies |
| April 24 |
Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies
at 78 |
| April 28 |
Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth),
dies at 70 |
| April 30 |
Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched),
dies at 67 |
| May 04 |
Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65 |
| May 04 |
John Wengraf, actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the
Moon), dies at 77 |
| May 08 |
Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train |
| May 09 |
Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 |
| May 17 |
Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town),
dies at 49 |
| May 18 |
Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies
at 61 |
| May 23 |
Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies |
| May 24 |
Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at
75 |
| May 25 |
Donald Crisp, actor/director (Beloved Brat,
Dawn Patrol), dies at 91 |
| May 25 |
Frank Ward, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia
1936-38), dies |
| May 25 |
Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies
of drug overdose |
| May 26 |
Kitty Gordon, entertainer, dies at 96 |
| May 31 |
Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay
healthy), dies at 70 |
| June 02 |
Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant), dies at 66 |
| June 02 |
Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests S Afr
v Aust 1921-22), dies |
| June 06 |
Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry
of Werewolf), dies at 86 |
| June 09 |
M A Asturias, writer, dies |
| June 09 |
Phillip Tead, actor (Lightnin', Fighting
Blade), dies at 80 |
| June 10 |
Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron
Culloden, dies at 74 |
| June 14 |
Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81 |
| June 17 |
Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite
Martian), dies at 50 |
| June 17 |
Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala,
Test for India), dies |
| June 18 |
Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of
Defense, dies at 77 |
| June 22 |
Darius Milhaud, French composer (Le boeuf sur
le to?t), dies at 81 |
| June 28 |
Frank Sutton, actor (Sgt Vince Carter-Gomer
Pyle USMC), dies at 50 |
| June 30 |
Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr,
assassinated in church |
| July 01 |
Juan D Per?n, president of Argentina (1946-55,
73-74), dies at 78 |
| July 03 |
John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies |
| July 04 |
Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of
Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies |
| July 06 |
Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87 |
| July 09 |
Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer
(Diaghilev), dies at 70 |
| July 09 |
Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5
Tests 1929-30), dies |
| July 11 |
P?r Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel
1951), dies at 83 |
| July 13 |
Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel
1948), dies at 76 |
| July 14 |
Carl A Spaats, 1st chief of staff of USAF, dies
at 83 |
| July 14 |
Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat),
commits suicide at 77 |
| July 17 |
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis
Cards), dies at 63 |
| July 19 |
Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice
(1953-68), dies at 83 |
| July 19 |
Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59 |
| July 20 |
Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain
Gang), dies at 74 |
| July 21 |
Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on
Sea), dies at 74 |
| July 22 |
Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named
Desire), dies at 88 |
| July 22 |
Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem,
Cimmaron), dies at 68 |
| July 22 |
Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73 |
| July 23 |
Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy),
dies at 90 |
| July 24 |
Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air |
| July 24 |
Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl),
dies at 84 |
| July 24 |
James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935),
dies at 82 |
| July 25 |
Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 79 |
| July 26 |
Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at
55 |
| July 26 |
Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle
Lola), dies at 82 |
| July 27 |
Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the
Devil), dies at 61 |
| July 28 |
Jack Ellis, cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes
tourist 1926), dies |
| July 28 |
Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction
Theater), dies at 69 |
| July 29 |
Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), chokes to
death in London at 32 |
| July 29 |
Erich K?stner, writer, dies at 75 |
| July 30 |
Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at
75 |
| August 03 |
Almira Sessions, actress (Okla Annie), dies at
85 |
| August 08 |
Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi
politician, dies at 67 |
| August 10 |
Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey
Show), dies at 64 |
| August 10 |
Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death),
dies at 57 |
| August 10 |
Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's ? Comedy
Hour), dies at 92 |
| August 11 |
Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia
1953-55, 8 wickets), dies |
| August 11 |
Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer, dies at 86 |
| August 13 |
Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for
England), dies |
| August 13 |
Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the
Wanderer), dies at 76 |
| August 15 |
Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at
82 |
| August 15 |
Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean
president, murdered |
| August 16 |
Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies |
| August 17 |
Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer,
dies at 89 |
| August 17 |
Edgar Dearing, actor (Free & Easy, Abraham
Lincoln), dies at 81 |
| August 19 |
... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered |
| August 20 |
Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in
Mexico), dies at 62 |
| August 21 |
Mascha Kal?ko, writer, dies at 48 |
| August 22 |
Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural
historian, dies at 66 |
| August 26 |
Charles Lindbergh, aviator, dies at 72 |
| August 30 |
Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist
(Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87 |
| September 04 |
Creighton W Abrams, US general/army staff chief
(Vietnam), dies at 59 |
| September 04 |
Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the
Paris), dies at 75 |
| September 06 |
Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY),
dies at 75 |
| September 06 |
Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on
89th birthday |
| September 08 |
Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone
Kops, dies at 79 |
| September 09 |
Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55 |
| September 14 |
Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody
Ranch), dies at 66 |
| September 14 |
Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95 |
| September 14 |
Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow
the Leader), dies at 70 |
| September 14 |
Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the
World), dies at 71 |
| September 18 |
Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape),
dies at 74 |
| September 19 |
Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy),
dies at 63 |
| September 20 |
Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61 |
| September 20 |
Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson
d'Eve), dies at 88 |
| September 21 |
Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the
Dolls), dies of cancer at 53 |
| September 21 |
Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80 |
| September 23 |
Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies
at 68 |
| September 23 |
Gerhard Nebel, writer, dies at 70 |
| September 23 |
Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band),
overdoses at 24 |
| September 25 |
Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies |
| September 25 |
William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of
Running Water"), dies |
| September 28 |
Raymond Largay, actor (April in Paris, Variety
Girl), dies at 88 |
| September 29 |
John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister,
dies at 72 |
| October 02 |
Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89 |
| October 04 |
Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies
at 45 |
| October 10 |
Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73 |
| October 12 |
Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74 |
| October 13 |
Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast
of the Town), dies at 73 |
| October 17 |
Ren? A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies
at 57 |
| October 24 |
David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65 |
| October 29 |
Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch
Poetry), dies at 82 |
| November 01 |
Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen
Harmony), dies at 75 |
| November 04 |
Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley
Toorop, dies at 62 |
| November 05 |
Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman),
dies at 56 |
| November 07 |
Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest
Outlaw), dies at 54 |
| November 08 |
Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60 |
| November 09 |
Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria,
composer/musicologist, dies at 89 |
| November 11 |
Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80 |
| November 11 |
Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74 |
| November 12 |
Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies
at 50 |
| November 13 |
Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under
suspicious circumstances |
| November 13 |
Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Boccacio
70), dies |
| November 14 |
Johnny Mack Brown, actor (Lawman is Born, Back
Trail), dies at 70 |
| November 15 |
James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty),
dies on his 86th birthday |
| November 16 |
Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner
Effect), dies at 91 |
| November 17 |
Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies
at 87 |
| November 21 |
Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax),
dies at 84 |
| November 23 |
Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge
too Far), dies at 54 |
| November 23 |
Pall Isolfsson, composer, dies at 81 |
| November 25 |
Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at
26 |
| November 25 |
Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives),
dies at 61 |
| November 25 |
[Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72), dies
in NY of cancer at 65 |
| November 27 |
Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart
transplant, dies at 49 |
| November 29 |
Haroldson L Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at
85 |
| November 29 |
Ouida Bergere, scriptwriter, dies at 88 |
| December 01 |
Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry
Angel), dies at 83 |
| December 01 |
Stephen Gill Spottswood, US bishop/chairman
(NAACP), dies at 77 |
| December 02 |
Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer, dies
at 72 |
| December 04 |
Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation),
dies at 36 |
| December 05 |
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US
Open 1909-11), dies at 87 |
| December 05 |
Henry Wadsworth, actor (Applause, Ceiling
Zero), dies at 72 |
| December 05 |
Pietro Germi, actor/director (Serafino,
Climax), dies at 60 |
| December 08 |
Hugues Panassi?, French jazz
saxophonist/author, dies at 62 |
| December 09 |
George Carew, cricketer (4 Tests for WI between
1935 & 1949), dies |
| December 09 |
Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer, dies at
64 |
| December 10 |
Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking
Point), dies at 50 |
| December 11 |
Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public
Defender), dies at 63 |
| December 13 |
Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat
Junction), dies at 66 |
| December 14 |
Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of
Dynasty), dies at 85 |
| December 15 |
Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| December 15 |
Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top
This?), dies at 89 |
| December 16 |
Kostas Varnalis, writer, dies |
| December 20 |
Andr? Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque),
dies at 69 |
| December 21 |
Richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies
at 47 |
| December 22 |
Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70 |
| December 22 |
Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50 |
| December 22 |
Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor),
dies at 47 |
| December 24 |
Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good
Earth), dies at 70 |
| December 26 |
Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at
80 |
| December 26 |
Knudage Riisager, composer, dies at 77 |
| December 26 |
Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68 |
| December 27 |
Amy Vanderbilt, US author (Complete book of
etiquette), dies at 66 |
| December 27 |
Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen
Jones), dies at 76 |