January 01 |
Arthur Pierson, actor/director (Hat Check
Girl), dies at 73 |
January 03 |
Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera
Auditions), dies at 87 |
January 03 |
Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False
Flag), dies at 77 |
January 03 |
Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71 |
January 04 |
Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre),
dies at 72 |
January 05 |
Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of
carbon monoxide poisoning |
January 06 |
Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven),
dies at 77 |
January 08 |
Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers),
dies at 66 |
January 08 |
Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent),
dies at 70 |
January 08 |
John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage),
dies at 69 |
January 08 |
John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at
55 |
January 08 |
Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet
(Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 |
January 08 |
Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La
Gioconda), dies at 61 |
January 09 |
John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree),
dies at 58 |
January 09 |
Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur
Vincent), dies at 77 |
January 12 |
Caryn Campbell, Bundy victim, disappears from
Snowmass, Colo |
January 19 |
Thomas Heart Benson, US artist, dies at 85 |
January 20 |
Franz Andr?, Belgian conductor, dies at 81 |
January 21 |
Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel,
Escapade), dies at 84 |
January 22 |
Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79 |
January 23 |
Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam
Bank), dies at 94 |
January 24 |
Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 72 |
January 25 |
Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of
Women), dies at 78 |
January 26 |
Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of
Music, Tanya), dies at 72 |
January 28 |
Antonin Nov?tny, Czechoslovakian president
(1957-68), dies at 70 |
January 30 |
Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined
Letter), dies at 72 |
February 01 |
Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess,
Liberace), dies at 62 |
February 03 |
John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies
at 55 |
February 03 |
Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52 |
February 07 |
Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing),
dies at 54 |
February 08 |
Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan,
Mikado), dies at 75 |
February 09 |
Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour
Vivre), dies at 82 |
February 13 |
Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red
Lights), dies at 78 |
February 13 |
Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74 |
February 13 |
Henry P Van Dusen, US protestant theologist,
dies at 77 |
February 14 |
Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret
artist, dies at 87 |
February 14 |
Julian S Huxley, English scholar/dir-gen
(UNESCO), dies at 87 |
February 14 |
Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer
(Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93 |
February 15 |
Julian Huxley, biologist, dies |
February 15 |
Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies |
February 18 |
Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of
Romania (1955-61), dies at 66 |
February 18 |
Luigi Dallapiccola, composer, dies |
February 18 |
Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt
"Brain Trust", dies at 88 |
February 18 |
Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4
wickets), dies |
February 19 |
Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer,
dies at 71 |
February 20 |
Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry
Colonna Show), dies at 76 |
February 20 |
Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's
Spring), dies at 88 |
February 20 |
Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona
McCluskey), dies at 61 |
February 24 |
Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR
(1955-58), dies at 79 |
February 25 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam,
dies in Chicago at 78 |
February 27 |
Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies |
February 28 |
Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83 |
March 02 |
Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65 |
March 03 |
L?szl? N?meth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony),
dies at 73 |
March 07 |
Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank
Sinatra Show), dies at 73 |
March 07 |
Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's
Woman), dies at 76 |
March 08 |
George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga
Din), dies at 70 |
March 09 |
Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing
Dunninger), dies at 82 |
March 09 |
Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller),
dies at 62 |
March 10 |
Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91 |
March 11 |
Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59 |
March 11 |
Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show),
dies at 65 |
March 11 |
Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane
Private Eye), dies at 74 |
March 13 |
Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian
attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71 |
March 13 |
Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel
1961), dies at 82 |
March 13 |
Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying
Deuces), dies at 83 |
March 13 |
Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor,
dies at 75 |
March 14 |
Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies
at 56 |
March 15 |
Antonino Rocca, professional
wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49 |
March 15 |
Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate,
dies at 69 |
March 16 |
T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town,
Well Done), dies at 64 |
March 19 |
John A DeMott, dies at 63 |
March 21 |
Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64 |
March 21 |
Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at
95 |
March 22 |
Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics
(1945-65), dies at 75 |
March 22 |
Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59 |
March 22 |
Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man,
Total Recall), dies at 73 |
March 24 |
Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man),
dies at 60 |
March 24 |
Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86 |
March 26 |
Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia
(1964-75), murdered at 68 |
March 27 |
Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor
(Checkmate), dies at 83 |
March 27 |
Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies
at 63 |
March 28 |
Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77 |
March 30 |
Peter Bamm, writer, dies |
April 01 |
Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter,
dies at 95 |
April 03 |
Mary Ure, actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles
Dare), dies at 42 |
April 05 |
Inez Courtney, dies at 67 |
April 05 |
Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65),
dies at 58 |
April 06 |
Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader,
dies at 87 |
April 10 |
Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies
at 85 |
April 10 |
Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a
Dream), dies at 86 |
April 10 |
Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune
Magazine), dies at 71 |
April 11 |
Dorothy Patten, dies at 70 |
April 12 |
Jos?phine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Berg?re),
dies at 68 |
April 13 |
Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60 |
April 13 |
N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies |
April 14 |
Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies
at 77 |
April 15 |
Charles Marshall, dies |
April 15 |
John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies |
April 15 |
Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean
Arthur Show), dies at 65 |
April 18 |
Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet),
chansonnier/director, dies at 38 |
April 21 |
Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 |
April 22 |
Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies
at 75 |
April 23 |
Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide
by hanging himself at 27 |
April 23 |
R D Brinkmann, writer, dies |
April 23 |
William Hartnell, actor (Dr Who), dies at 67 |
April 24 |
William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting
Life), dies at 67 |
April 27 |
Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies
at 86 |
April 28 |
Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48 |
April 29 |
Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal,
killed in Vietnam |
April 29 |
Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US
soldiers killed in Viet |
April 29 |
Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last
soldiers killed in Vietnam |
April 29 |
William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US
soldiers killed in Viet |
May 03 |
Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red
Cross), dies at 78 |
May 04 |
Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3
Stooges), dies at 77 |
May 06 |
J?zsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian
cardinal, dies at 83 |
May 08 |
Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee,
1952-72), dies at 87 |
May 09 |
Philip Dorn, dies at 73 |
May 13 |
Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69 |
May 16 |
Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad,
for murder |
May 18 |
Leroy Anderson, composer, dies at 66 |
May 20 |
Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies |
May 20 |
Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies
in fire at 72 |
May 20 |
Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62 |
May 22 |
Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny),
dies at 90 |
May 23 |
Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing
Grace), dies at 81 |
May 27 |
Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion
(1949-51), dies at 53 |
May 28 |
Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies |
May 28 |
Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy
Show), dies at 75 |
May 30 |
Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us),
dies at 80 |
June 01 |
Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies
at 25 |
June 02 |
Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel
1974), dies at 74 |
June 03 |
Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie &
Harriet), dies at 69 |
June 04 |
Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command,
Spy Train), dies at 75 |
June 06 |
Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My
Line), dies at 49 |
June 08 |
William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of
Giants), dies at 78 |
June 09 |
David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48 |
June 11 |
Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90 |
June 16 |
Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies
at 71 |
June 18 |
Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince,
beheaded in Riyadh |
June 18 |
shopping center parking lot for killing his
uncle the king |
June 20 |
Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68 |
June 21 |
Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49 |
June 23 |
William Hansen, actor (Homebodies), dies at 64 |
June 26 |
Jose Maria Escriv? de Balaguer Alb?s, founder
(Opus Dei), dies at 73 |
June 27 |
Robert Stolz, Austrian composer (Fr?hling im
Prater), dies at 94 |
June 28 |
Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night
Gallery), dies at 50 |
June 29 |
Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves
Alone), dies at 79 |
July 02 |
James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr
om Love), dies at 70 |
July 06 |
Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen),
dies |
July 07 |
Barbara Brown, |
July 07 |
Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86 |
July 10 |
Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46,
1954-58), dies at 77 |
July 11 |
Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89 |
July 13 |
Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for S Africa
1948-50), lost at sea |
July 14 |
Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, dies at 77 |
July 15 |
Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer
(Fables for Our Time), dies |
July 17 |
Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest
known nonhuman mammal) |
July 18 |
Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74 |
July 21 |
Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy),
dies at 82 |
July 21 |
Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at
85 |
July 26 |
Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle
Queen), dies at 98 |
July 29 |
James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star
Trek Reader), dies at 54 |
August 01 |
Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story),
dies at 68 |
August 03 |
Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939
World's Fair), dies at 79 |
August 04 |
John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57 |
August 08 |
Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies
of a stroke at 46 |
August 09 |
Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over
Motherland), dies at 68 |
August 09 |
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly,
saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46 |
August 11 |
Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st
div (Nuts!), dies at 77 |
August 11 |
Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at
81 |
August 13 |
Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is
Culture?), dies at 81 |
August 14 |
Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder
Boekengids), dies at 87 |
August 15 |
Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a
military coup at 53 |
August 17 |
Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend
Irma), dies at 80 |
August 17 |
Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner
(Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48 |
August 23 |
Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green
Acres), dies at 87 |
August 24 |
Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at
69 |
August 25 |
Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at
75 |
August 25 |
John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67 |
August 26 |
Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80 |
August 27 |
Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian
emperor, strangled at 83 |
August 29 |
Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59),
dies at 92 |
August 29 |
Leland T Weed |
August 31 |
Pierre Blaise, French actor (Lacombe Lucien),
dies at 24 |
September 04 |
Walter Tetley, cartoon voice
(Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60 |
September 06 |
Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies
at 62 |
September 08 |
John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82 |
September 09 |
Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds),
dies at 97 |
September 09 |
John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy
Stewart Show), dies at 61 |
September 09 |
Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies,
Mickey), dies at 85 |
September 18 |
Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett,
Night Digger), dies at 58 |
September 20 |
Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel
1960), dies at 78 |
September 22 |
Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75 |
September 22 |
Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights),
dies at 60 |
September 23 |
Ian Hunter, actor/writer (Rockets Galore,
Ziegfield Girl), dies at 75 |
September 24 |
Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips,
Moonraker), dies at 71 |
September 24 |
Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood),
dies at 75 |
September 25 |
Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America
After Dark), dies at 68 |
September 26 |
Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Slt
Sandhed), dies at 79 |
September 27 |
Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini
Contro), dies at 27 |
September 28 |
Agnes Windeck, dies |
September 28 |
Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott & Costello),
dies at 77 |
September 29 |
Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60),
dies in Glendale at 85 |
October 01 |
Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T & The MG's),
dies at 39 |
October 02 |
Wade Crosby, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of
Robin Hood), dies at 70 |
October 03 |
Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/writer (Ealse &
I), dies at 75 |
October 03 |
Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at
69 |
October 04 |
Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets,
dies at 72 |
October 06 |
Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at
57 |
October 08 |
Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 |
October 10 |
Lillian Walker, dies at 88 |
October 17 |
Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture
d'aspetto), dies at 90 |
October 18 |
Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don
is Dead), dies at 47 |
October 22 |
Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural
sociologist, dies at 86 |
October 23 |
Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun
Kelly), dies at 43 |
October 23 |
Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the
War), dies at 77 |
October 24 |
Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car
bomb in Paris |
October 25 |
Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book),
dies at 83 |
October 27 |
Rex Stout, US detective writer (Nero Wolfe),
dies at 88 |
October 29 |
John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel
Show), dies at 67 |
October 31 |
Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda),
dies at 78 |
November 01 |
Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That
Was), dies at 77 |
November 01 |
Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58 |
November 01 |
Norbert Rosseau, composer, dies at 67 |
November 01 |
Philip James, composer, dies at 85 |
November 01 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian
poet/author/director, murdered at 53 |
November 04 |
Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great
Guns), dies at 54 |
November 05 |
Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar
Mermaid), dies at 87 |
November 11 |
Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79 |
November 12 |
Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at
69 |
November 14 |
Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies
at 88 |
November 15 |
Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77 |
November 16 |
Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president,
dies at 83 |
November 17 |
Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human
Bondage), dies at 70 |
November 20 |
Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Span dictator
(1936-75), dies at 82 |
November 21 |
G Gunnarsson, writer, dies at 86 |
November 25 |
Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle
Harry), dies |
November 27 |
Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records
keeper, murdered |
December 01 |
Nick Kenny, US columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny
Show), dies at 80 |
December 03 |
Hugh Thurlow, cricketer (one Test for Australia
1932), dies |
December 03 |
Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist, dies at 76 |
December 04 |
Hannah Arendt, German/US sociologist, dies at
69 [or Dec 5] |
December 05 |
Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies |
December 07 |
Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak,
Scarlet Letter), dies at 71 |
December 07 |
Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San
Luis Rey), dies at 78 |
December 09 |
William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow
Incident), dies at 79 |
December 13 |
Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson
Davis), dies at 88 |
December 13 |
Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority
(1944-46), dies at 73 |
December 14 |
Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin
Show), dies at 81 |
December 15 |
Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 |
December 17 |
Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the
Law), dies at 67 |
December 17 |
Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 |
December 20 |
Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard),
dies at 76 |
December 20 |
William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax),
dies at 61 |
December 21 |
William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery
Theater), dies at 61 |
December 23 |
Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens,
shot dead |
December 24 |
Bernard Herrmann, US movie composer, dies at 64
|
December 24 |
Otto AP F?rst von Bismarck-Sch?nhausen, German
diplomat, dies at 78 |
December 25 |
Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library
Gallimard), dies at 94 |
December 31 |
Donal Michalsky, composer, dies at 47 |