Notable Deaths

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Peter Arno -- cartoonist -- February 22

Tallulah Bankhead -- actress -- December 12

Karl Barth -- Protestant theologian -- December 9

E. L. Bartlett -- U.S. Senator from Alaska -- December 11

Jim Clark -- race car driver -- in a crash at Hockenheim, West Germany -- April 7

Marcel Duchamp -- artist -- October 1

Harry "Ziggy" Elman -- jazz trumpeter -- June 26

Edna Ferber -- author -- April 16

Red Foley -- singer -- September 19

Franklin Clark Fry -- president of the Lutheran Church in America -- June 6

Yuri Gagarin -- the first man in space -- in a jet plane crash -- March 27

Otto Hahn -- discoverer of nuclear fission -- July 28

Fannie Hurst -- author -- February 23

Daniel Johnson -- Premier of Quebec, Canada -- September 26

Robert F. Kennedy -- Democratic candidate for President of the United States -- assassinated in Los Angeles, California -- June 6

Martin Luther King, Jr. -- civil rights leader -- assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee -- April 4

Trygve Lie -- the firstSecretary-General of the United Nations -- December 30

Marion Lorne -- actress -- May 9

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.-- former U.S. Congressman -- March 6

John Gordon Mein -- U.S. Ambassador to Guatenala -- shot to death in Guatemala City -- August 28

Daniel A. Polling -- Protestant Church leader -- February 7

Salvadore Quasimodo -- Bobel Prize-winning poet -- June 14

Upton Sinclair -- author -- November 25

John Steinbeck -- Nobel Prize-winning author -- December 20

Norman Thomas -- six-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States -- December 19

Franchot Tone -- actor -- September 18

Lurleen Wallace -- Governor of Alabama -- May 7

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