| January 03 |
Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies
at 91 |
| January 04 |
Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart
attack |
| January 05 |
Charles Mingus, US jazz
bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 |
| January 07 |
Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70 |
| January 09 |
Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80 |
| January 09 |
Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter
Family), dies at 80 |
| January 11 |
Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller,
Green Berets), dies at 63 |
| January 13 |
Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto),
commits suicide at 33 |
| January 16 |
Fred Elizalde, composer, dies at 71 |
| January 16 |
Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies
at 46 |
| January 18 |
Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82 |
| January 19 |
Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth,
Suspects, Monocle), dies |
| January 22 |
Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car
bomb; believed to |
| January 22 |
have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich
Olympics athletes |
| January 24 |
Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That
Was), dies at 51 |
| January 24 |
Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back),
dies at 91 |
| January 25 |
J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies
at 87 |
| January 26 |
Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY),
dies at 70 |
| February 01 |
Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at
60 |
| February 02 |
Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener),
commits suicide |
| February 02 |
Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex
Pistols), OD's at 31 |
| February 03 |
Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde
Dynamite), dies |
| February 05 |
Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England,
avg 59.23), dies |
| February 06 |
Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at
47 |
| February 06 |
Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies
at 68 |
| February 07 |
Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor,
drowns |
| February 08 |
Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet,
dies at 82 |
| February 09 |
C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for
England 1935-37), dies |
| February 12 |
Jean Renoir, French writer/director (Human
Beast), dies at 84 |
| February 13 |
Jean Renoir, actor/director (Rules of the
Game), dies at 84 |
| February 14 |
Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan,
murdered |
| February 15 |
Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too
Short...), dies at 51 |
| February 15 |
Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of
Teheran, executed |
| February 16 |
Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door),
dies at 58 |
| February 16 |
Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak,
executed |
| February 16 |
William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin
Kane), dies at 73 |
| February 17 |
William Gargan, actor (Rain, Bells of St Mary),
dies at 73 |
| February 21 |
Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v
Australia 1955), dies |
| February 21 |
Ray Whitley, composer, dies |
| February 28 |
Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir
Lancelot), dies at 52 |
| February 28 |
Mr Ed, talking horse, dies |
| March 01 |
Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark,
Expensive Women), dies at 73 |
| March 01 |
Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP),
dies at 75 |
| March 02 |
Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing
Rackets), dies at 71 |
| March 02 |
Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at
75 |
| March 02 |
Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated
in Holland |
| March 05 |
Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81 |
| March 06 |
Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke),
dies at 83 |
| March 07 |
Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of
Merit), dies at 84 |
| March 07 |
Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen),
dies at 72 |
| March 08 |
G?rard Blitz, Dutch 400m swimmer (WR), dies at
78 |
| March 09 |
Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million),
dies at 64 |
| March 11 |
Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement),
dies at 88 |
| March 16 |
Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies
at 90 |
| March 17 |
Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA
player 1925-40), dies |
| March 19 |
Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65 |
| March 19 |
Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time,
Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31 |
| March 22 |
Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront,
Indiscreet), dies at 78 |
| March 23 |
Philip Bourneuf, actor (Big Night,
Frankenstein), dies at 71 |
| March 24 |
Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53 |
| March 25 |
... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague,
murdered |
| March 25 |
Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55 |
| March 26 |
Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure),
dies at 63 |
| March 27 |
Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82 |
| March 28 |
Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies
at 80 |
| March 29 |
Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret),
dies at 82 |
| March 30 |
Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed
by terrorist bomb |
| April 01 |
Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at
51 |
| April 02 |
Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies
at 72 |
| April 02 |
Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West
Indies 1930-39), dies |
| April 04 |
Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat
Junction), dies at 77 |
| April 04 |
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president,
hanged in Pakistan at 51 |
| April 06 |
M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame
1957), dies at 61 |
| April 06 |
Milton Ager, US composer, dies at 85 |
| April 07 |
Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78 |
| April 09 |
Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71 |
| April 10 |
Henri?tte P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans),
dies at 91 |
| April 10 |
Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies
at 67 |
| April 20 |
Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at
60 |
| April 24 |
John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta,
Geraldine), dies at 72 |
| April 28 |
Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86 |
| April 29 |
Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul
Symphony), dies at 55 |
| May 01 |
Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin, cricketer (2
Tests for WI), dies |
| May 03 |
Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse
Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76 |
| May 05 |
Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at
68 |
| May 08 |
Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76 |
| May 09 |
Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire,
dies at 95 |
| May 09 |
Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73 |
| May 10 |
John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist
(Beachcomber), dies |
| May 10 |
Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros & the
Lonely Man), dies at 67 |
| May 11 |
Joan Chandler, dies at 55 |
| May 11 |
Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed
Clampett), dies at 64 |
| May 13 |
Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65 |
| May 14 |
Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije
Volk), dies at 57 |
| May 16 |
Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil
rights pioneer, dies at 90 |
| May 23 |
Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF),
dies at 79 |
| May 24 |
Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro),
dies |
| May 26 |
George Brent, actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory,
42nd St), dies at 75 |
| May 29 |
Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds,
Secrets), dies at 86 |
| May 30 |
Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82 |
| May 31 |
Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain
1951-52 tour of India), dies |
| June 01 |
Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for
Ransom), dies at 91 |
| June 01 |
Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956),
dies |
| June 02 |
Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies of liver
cancer at 45 |
| June 03 |
Arno Schmidt, writer, dies at 65 |
| June 04 |
Edward Dawson, cricketer (England batsman in 5
Tests 1927-30), dies |
| June 05 |
Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53 |
| June 06 |
Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of
cancer at 79 |
| June 08 |
Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20
Questions), dies at 79 |
| June 08 |
Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61 |
| June 11 |
August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer
that Dies), dies at 85 |
| June 11 |
John Wayne, actor (Green Berets, True Grit),
dies at 72 |
| June 13 |
Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang 1935-45), dies at
47 |
| June 15 |
Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67 |
| June 16 |
Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award
1965), dies at 62 |
| June 16 |
Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77 |
| June 17 |
Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza),
dies at 58 |
| June 21 |
Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless
this House), dies at 49 |
| June 22 |
Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of
Riley), dies at 85 |
| June 22 |
Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in
Dayton Ohio |
| June 26 |
Charles Clore, financier, dies |
| June 28 |
Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin,
1925-33), dies at 84 |
| June 29 |
Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia
1938), dies |
| June 29 |
Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention,
Little Feat), dies at 34 |
| June 30 |
Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72 |
| July 01 |
Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64 |
| July 05 |
Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon
titles), dies at 87 |
| July 05 |
Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at
76 |
| July 06 |
Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ,
Hustle), dies at 35 |
| July 07 |
D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for S
Africa), dies |
| July 08 |
John Reed King, TV host (Why?, Let's See), dies
at 64 |
| July 08 |
Michael Wilding, actor (Waterloo, Zarakm Naked
Edge), dies |
| July 09 |
Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of
Fame 1959), dies at 53 |
| July 09 |
Cornelia Otis Skinner, dies at 78 |
| July 09 |
Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for
India), dies |
| July 10 |
Arthur Fiedler, orch leader (Boston Pops), dies
at 84 |
| July 12 |
Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69 |
| July 12 |
Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer
(Lovin' You), dies at 30 |
| July 13 |
Corine Griffith, dies at 84 |
| July 14 |
George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies
at 56 |
| July 16 |
James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles,
dies at 93 |
| July 17 |
Doug Meintjes, S Afr cricket pace bowler (v
England 1922-23), dies |
| July 21 |
Ludwig Renn, writer, dies at 90 |
| July 22 |
Hope Summers, actress (Clara-Andy Griffith
Show), dies at 78 |
| July 22 |
Soschtschenko, writer, dies at 83 |
| July 22 |
Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer/actor (On the
Waterfront), dies at 69 |
| July 23 |
Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in
a car accident at 31 |
| July 24 |
Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at
65 |
| July 27 |
Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine
Nymph), dies at 52 |
| July 27 |
Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark
Skies), dies at 79 |
| July 29 |
Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (Eros &
Civilization), dies at 81 |
| July 30 |
Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien),
dies at 67 |
| July 31 |
Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat,
Staircase), dies at 76 |
| August 01 |
Joseph Kot?lla, German war criminal (4 of Breda),
dies at 71 |
| August 02 |
Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane
crash at Akron Oh at 32 |
| August 03 |
Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76 |
| August 06 |
Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the
Giants), dies at 65 |
| August 09 |
Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64 |
| August 09 |
Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75 |
| August 10 |
Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 |
| August 17 |
Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love
Lucy), diesof cancer at 67 |
| August 19 |
Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart
attack |
| August 22 |
Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 |
| August 22 |
James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are
Vicious), dies |
| August 23 |
Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan
capt 1948-49), dies |
| August 23 |
Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower),
dies at 70 |
| August 25 |
Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67 |
| August 27 |
Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82 |
| August 27 |
Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet,
assassinated by IRA |
| August 27 |
Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's
grandson, murdered at 14 |
| August 28 |
Simonow, writer, dies |
| August 29 |
Mary Marquet, actress (Landru, Paris Canaille),
dies at 84 |
| August 31 |
E J "Tiger" Smith, England cricket
wicket-keeper 1911-14), dies |
| August 31 |
Sally Rand, stripper, dies at 75 |
| September 01 |
Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander
Hamilton), dies at 81 |
| September 02 |
Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming
Lips), dies at 90 |
| September 04 |
Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at
76 |
| September 06 |
Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69 |
| September 08 |
Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport),
commits suicide at 40 |
| September 09 |
Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73 |
| September 10 |
Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies
at 56 |
| September 10 |
Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer, dies
at 99 |
| September 12 |
Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed
batsman 1935), dies |
| September 14 |
Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80 |
| September 15 |
Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC),
dies at 50 |
| September 16 |
Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan
(1978-79), killed |
| September 17 |
Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71 |
| September 18 |
Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at
60 |
| September 20 |
Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies
at 83 |
| September 21 |
John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private
Detective), dies at 73 |
| September 23 |
Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man,
Carnival), dies at 75 |
| September 26 |
Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache
Uprising), dies at 68 |
| September 26 |
John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human
Bondage), dies at 91 |
| September 26 |
Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53 |
| September 27 |
Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies
at 81 |
| September 27 |
Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a
drug overdose |
| September 28 |
Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26 |
| October 01 |
Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81 |
| October 03 |
Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los
Angeles |
| October 03 |
Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in
car crash at 29 |
| October 04 |
Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56 |
| October 05 |
Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies |
| October 06 |
Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South,
Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 |
| October 08 |
June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite),
dies at 68 |
| October 10 |
Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 |
| October 12 |
Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star
Trek), dies at 82 |
| October 13 |
Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at
90 |
| October 13 |
Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93 |
| October 17 |
John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 |
| October 17 |
Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69 |
| October 17 |
S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in
80 Days), dies at 75 |
| October 22 |
Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas
chamber |
| October 22 |
Nadia Boulanger, French composer (Lasir?ne),
dies at 92 |
| October 26 |
Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain
1930-35), dies |
| October 26 |
Park Chung-hee, South Korean President,
assassinated |
| November 01 |
Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state",
shot to death |
| November 05 |
Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70 |
| November 07 |
Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of
Cabiria), dies at 71 |
| November 07 |
Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in
Naples), dies at 53 |
| November 08 |
Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at
63 |
| November 09 |
Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang),
dies at 59 |
| November 10 |
Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71 |
| November 12 |
Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85 |
| November 13 |
Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93 |
| November 14 |
Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4
Tests 1930-35), dies |
| November 17 |
John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27
following heart surgery |
| November 22 |
Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic
party-minister, dies at 63 |
| November 23 |
Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign
Legion), dies at 68 |
| November 30 |
Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress,
dies at 69 |
| November 30 |
Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx
Brothers), dies at 78 |
| December 02 |
Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer,
dies at 72 |
| December 04 |
Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years),
dies at 62 |
| December 07 |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof
at Harvard U, dies |
| December 07 |
Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam,
dies at 82 |
| December 07 |
Nicolas Born, writer, dies at 41 |
| December 07 |
Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew,
murdered in Paris |
| December 09 |
Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious
broadcaster, dies in NYC at 84 |
| December 10 |
Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own,
Scarface), dies at 67 |
| December 10 |
Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living),
dies at 84 |
| December 11 |
Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron
City), dies at 66 |
| December 13 |
Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at
66 |
| December 14 |
Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for
India, avg 205), dies |
| December 15 |
Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies
at 66 |
| December 21 |
Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946,
scored five & one), dies |
| December 22 |
Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century
Fox), dies at 77 |
| December 24 |
Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/sect-gen
NATO, dies at 82 |
| December 24 |
Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader,
dies at 39 |
| December 25 |
Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at
70 |
| December 25 |
Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami
Undercover), dies at 64 |
| December 27 |
Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan
(1979), murdered |
| December 30 |
Richard Rodgers, composer (Rogers &
Hammerstein), dies at 77 |