Notable Deaths

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Edith Abbott -- educator and social worker -- July 28

Aga Khan III -- religious leader of Ismailia Moslems -- July 11

Sholem Asch -- author -- July 10

Sosthenes Behn -- co-founder of International Telephone and Telegraph -- June 6

Humphrey Bogart -- actor -- January 14

Constantin Brancusi -- sculptor -- March 16

Gene Buck -- lyricist -- February 24

Richard E. Byrd -- polar explorer -- March 11

Joyce Cary -- author -- March 29, in Oxford, England

Carlos Castillo Armas -- President of Guatemala -- assassinated by palace guards in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on July 26

Edna Woolman Chase -- former editor of Vogue magazine and mother of actress Ilka Chase -- March 20

Eric Coates -- composer -- December 21

Albert E. Cobo -- Mayor of Detroit, Michigan -- September 12, in Detroit

Alfred Einstein Cohn -- pioneer in the use of the electrocardiograph -- July 20

James B. Connolly -- winner of the first United States Olympic title -- January 20

Grace Goodhue Coolidge -- wife of Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States -- July 8

Gerty T. Cori -- Nobel Prize-winning biochemist -- October 26

Helene Costello -- actress -- January 26

Hugh Roy Cullen -- oilman -- July 4

Joseph Robinson Darling -- author and explorer -- September 6

Christian Dior -- fashion designer -- October 24

Archbishop Dorotheos -- Greek prelate -- July 26

Jimmy Dorsey -- bandleader -- June 12

Samuel Dresden -- composer -- July 31

Lord Dunsany -- (Edward J.M.D. Plunkett) author -- October 25

Walter Duranty -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author -- October 3

Edgar Vincent Durling -- syndicated columnist ("On the Side") -- September 13

Peter Freuchen -- arctic explorer -- September 2

Devados Gandhi -- youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi -- August 3

Frank Gannett -- newspaper publisher -- December 3

Harold Gatty -- navigator for Wiley Post on 1931 round-the-world flight -- August 30

Prince George of Greece -- November 24

Walter F. George -- former U.S. Senator -- August 4

Beniamino Gigli -- operatic tenor -- November 30

King Haakon VI of Norway -- September 21, in Oslo, Norway

Oliver Hardy -- half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy -- August 7

George Ludlum Hartford -- founder of A & P grocery store chain -- September 23

Kingoro Hashimoto -- Japanese army officer who instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -- June 29

Edouard Herriot -- three-time Premier of France -- March 26, in Lyon, France

Josef Hofmann -- concert pianist and composer -- February 16

Nicholas Vietz Horthy de Nagybanya -- leader of Hungary from 1920 to 1944 -- February 9

Josephine Hull -- actress -- March 12

Dick Irvin -- hockey player and coach -- May 16

William Allen Jowitt -- British statesman -- August 16

Joseph W. Kennedy -- co-discover of plutonium -- May 5

Monsignor Ronald A. Knox -- Bible translator -- August 24

Theodor Körner -- President of Austria -- January 5, in Grinzing, Austria

Irving Langmuir -- Nobel Prize-winning chemist -- August 16

Wyndham Lewis -- author, artist, critic, editor -- March 7

Gene Lockhart -- actor -- March 31

Julio Lozano Díaz -- Honduran political leader -- August 20

Ramón Magsaysay -- President of the Philippines -- in a plane crash near Cebu City, Philippines, on March 17

Louis B. Mayer -- motion picture producer -- October 29

Joseph McCarthy -- U.S. Senator from Wisconsin --May 2

Kenneth McKellar -- former U.S. Senator from Tennessee --October 25

Giovanni Cardinal Mercati -- Italian prelate -- August 22

Gabriela Mistral -- (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga) Nobel Prize-winning poet -- January 10

El Hadj Mohammed El Mokri -- Grand Vizar to five Sultans of Morocco -- near Rabat, Morocco, on September 9, at the age of 112

George C. "Bugs" Moran -- crime figure -- February 25, at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas

Christopher Morley -- essayist and suthor --March 28

William L. Murphy -- inventor of the "in-a-door bed" -- May 22

John Middleton Murry -- author, editor, literary critic -- March 13

E. Herbert Norman -- Canadian ambassador to Egypt -- committed suicide, April 4

Nicholas E. Oglesby -- co-inventor of the tear-gas grenade and the airplane smoke screen -- March 8

Frederick Law Olmsted -- landscape architect -- December 25

Charles Pathé -- motion-picture pioneer -- December 25

Ralph Barton Perry -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author -- January 22

Ezio Pinza -- singer --May 9

Redfield Proctor -- American politician -- February 5

Craig Rice -- (Georgiana Bishop) mystery writer --August 28

Diego Rivera -- painter --November 25

Kenneth Roberts -- historical novelist -- July 21

Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz -- Archbishop of Seville --April 8

Mamoru Shigemitsu -- Japanese Foreign Minister, signer of the Japanese surrender to the Allies aboard the U.S. battleship"Missouri" -- January 25

Shoghi Effendi -- leader of the Baha'i faith --November 4

Jean Sibelius -- composer -- September 20

William Grove Skelly -- oil company executive -- April 11

Ned Sparks -- actor -- April 3

Theodore Edwin Steinway -- piano manufacturer -- April 8

Marguerite Sylva -- opera singer -- February 21

Norma Talmadge -- silent movie actress --December 24

Arturo Toscanini -- conductor --January 16

John Von Neumann -- co-developer of the hydrogen bomb -- February 8

Laura Ingalls Wilder -- author -- February 10

Antonin Zapotocky -- President of Czechoslovakia --November 13

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