- January 21
- Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tué), dies at age 73. [1]
- January 24
- Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at age 82. [1]
- January 26
- Morris Nichols, cricket player (41 wickets in 14 Tests for England 1930-39), dies. [1]
- February 3
- Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad, Gallery of Madame Lui-Tsang), dies at age 54. [1]
- Viscount Dunrossil, Governor-General of Australia (1959-61), dies at age 67. [1]
- February 5
- Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at age 73. [1]
- February 7
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician/author/anti-Semite, dies at age 67. [1]
- February 8
- William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at age 81. [1]
- February 9
- Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at age 70. [1]
- February 11
- Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at age 82. [1]
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- Patrice Lumumba, first premier of Congo, murdered at age 34. [1]
- February 14
- Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at age 78. [1]
- February 15
- Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at age 59. [1]
- Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1932), dies. [1]
- February 17
- Nita Naldi, actress (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies of heart attack at age 63. [1]
- February 20
- Otto E Huiswoud [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at age 67. [1]
- February 21
- Blaise Cendrars [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet, dies at age 73. [1]
- February 22
- George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at age 75. [1]
- February 23
- Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies. [1]
- February 24
- Léon Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (Pédagogie en Cours), dies at age 77. [1]
- February 26
- Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at age 83. [1]
- Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at age 51. [1]
- February 27
- Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1912), dies. [1]
- February 28
- Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at age 64. [1]
- March 6
- Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at age 59. [1]
- March 7
- Max Hymans, WWII resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at age 60. [1]
- March 8
- Thomas Beecham; English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at age 81. [1]
- March 12
- Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph and his Brethren), dies in car crash at age 25. [1]
- March 14
- Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at age 78. [1]
- March 17
- Suzanna Salter, first US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at age 101. [1]
- March 23
- A C Russell, cricket player (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies. [1]
- James Edward Murray, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Montana) (1935-61), dies. [1]
- Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at age 24. [1]
- March 27
- Death of Jack Kane of cancer at age 36; bandleader/arranger, musical director (On Stage, The Jackie Rae Show, Summertime '57, Music Makers '58, Music Makers '59, Music '60 Presents the Jack Kane Hour, Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show). [457]
- March 30
- P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies. [1]
- March 31
- Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at age 85. [1]
- April 2
- Wallingford Riegger, US composer (Bacchangle), dies at age 75. [1]
- April 6
- Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1919), dies at age 90. [1]
- April 7
- Death of Marian Jordan at age 62; radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly). [1] [457]
- April 9
- Zog I [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at age 65. [1]
- April 10
- Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at age 65. [1]
- April 21
- Death of James Melton at age 56 of pneumonia; American operatic tenor (The Ziegfield Follies of the Air, The Intimate Review, Bell Telephone Hour, Harvest of Stars, The Texaco Star Theatre). [1] [457]
- April 22
- Maria Radulphus [Adrian Hermus], Curaçao school inspector, dies at age 91. [1]
- April 24
- Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at age 72. [1]
- April 26
- Gail Russell, actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at age 36. [1]
- April 27
- Roy Del Ruth, film director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at age 67. [1]
- May 2
- J C White, cricket player (49 wickets in 15 Tests for England 1921-31), dies. [1]
- May 6
- Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at age 65. [1]
- May 8
- James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at age 63. [1]
- May 13
- Gary Cooper, two time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at age 60. [1]
- May 17
- Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at age 81. [1]
- May 18
- Henry O'Neill, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies. [1]
- May 19
- Joe Howard; singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at age 94. [1]
- May 23
- Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at age 53. [1]
- May 30
- Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator of Dominican Republic (1930-61), murdered at age 69. [1]
- June 2
- George S Kaufman, playwright/director/pulitzer prize winner, dies at age 72. [1]
- June 3
- Henry Marshall, Inspector, US Department of Agriculture, dies of 5 gunshots from a rifle, but is called a suicide by County Sheriff and Justice of the Peace. Marshall had discovered fraud in federal agriculture subsidies linked to Lyndon Johnson. [1270.17]
- June 7
- Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies. [1]
- June 13
- Ben Jones Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at age 79. [1]
- June 22
- Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies. [1]
- June 30
- Dr Lee De Forest, radio pioneer, dies at age 87. [1]
- July 2
- Writer Ernest Hemingway shoots himself to death in Ketchum, Idaho, USA. [1] [5]
- July 13
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-US composer (Second Quartet), dies at age 86. [1]
- July 17
- Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers' hall of fame baseball player, dies at age 75. [1] [5]
- August 5
- Sir Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at age 67. [1]
- August 8
- Charlie Gemora, actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at age 58. [1]
- August 18
- Learned Hand, Chief judge of US Court of Appeals, dies at age 89. [1]
- August 20
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at age 82. [1]
- August 28
- Thomas Connolly, first baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies. [1]
- September 10
- Death of Leo Carrillo of cancer at age 80; actor (Pancho - Cisco Kid TV show). [1] [457]
- September 17
- Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at age 62. [1]
- September 18
- Dag Hammarskjold, secretary general of the United Nations, is killed when his DC-6 plane crashes into the jungle in Zambia. (The plane was accidentally shot down by a local group that had planned to kidnap Hammarskjöld.) [1] [7] [105]
- September 21
- Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at age 68. [1]
- September 28
- Michael Shepley, actor (Dick and the Duchess), dies at age 54. [1]
- October 1
- Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at age 60. [1]
- October 24
- Dr Milan Stoyadinovich, Fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1935-39), dies at age 73. [1]
- October 25
- Death of Peter Jensen at age 75; Danish-born co-inventor of the loud speaker. [1] [457]
- November 1
- Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at age 38. [1]
- November 2
- James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at age 66. [1]
- November 13
- Wally Brown, actor (Jed Fame - Cimarron City), dies at age 57. [1]
- November 16
- Sam Rayburn, US Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies. [1]
- December 3
- Mary Charleson, actress (Upstairs and Downstairs), dies at age 76. [1]
- December 6
- Death of Adam Pietz, sculptor, medalist, engraver, etcher, assistant engraver at the US Mint (1927-1946). [403.62]
- December 12
- Daiun Sogaku Harada Zen, founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at age 91. [1]
- December 13
- Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at age 101. [1]
- December 15
- William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at age 99. [1]
- December 17
- Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at age 53. [1]
- December 20
- Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at age 57. [1]
- December 25
- Dr Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of the electron microscope, dies. [1]
- December 26
- Charlie Frank, cricket player (South Africa Test centurion versus Australia 1921-22), dies. [1]
- December 28
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, first lady (1915-21), dies at age 89. [1]
- December 30
- Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch; Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/director, dies at age 53. [1]
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