- January 23
- Roy Park, cricket player (prolific Victorian bat and official), dies. [1]
- January 24
- Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from Saint Nicholas), dies at age 60. [1]
- January 25
- Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at age 48. [1]
- January 26
- Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at age 45. [1]
- Swedish Prince Gustaf Adolf dies in an airplane crash at Kastrup, Sweden. [1] [7]
- January 29
- Fred Barratt, cricket player (5 wickets at 47 in five Tests for England 1929-30), dies. [1]
- January 30
- Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at age 80. [1]
- February 3
- Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at age 74. [1]
- Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, American Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58), dies at age 60. [1]
- February 5
- Ganzefles, Dutch Nazi spy/Jew hunter, executed. [1]
- February 6
- Albert J Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at age 82. [1]
- February 12
- Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at age 72. [1]
- February 25
- Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at age 82. [1]
- February 26
- Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at age 82. [1]
- February 27
- Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricket player (Tests England versus Australia 1879), dies at age 89. [1]
- March 1
- J Boogaard, Nazi collaborator, executed. [1]
- March 5
- Alfredo Casella, Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at age 63. [1]
- March 9
- Stanley Jackson, cricket player (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies. [1]
- March 19
- Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at age 52. [1]
- March 27
- Charles Smith, cricket player (batted for South Africa in 1902-03), dies. [1]
- April 1
- George II, king of Greece, dies at age 56. [1]
- April 2
- Joseph Hardstaff, cricket player (311 runs in five Tests for England 1907-08), dies. [1]
- April 8
- Henry Ford, American industrialist (Ford cars), dies. [1]
- April 12
- Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies. [1]
- April 18
- Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), dies at age 51. [1]
- April 20
- Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-47), dies at age 76. [1]
- April 29
- Irving Fisher, American economist, dies at age 80. [1]
- May 1
- Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed. [1]
- May 11
- Else JT Rangstrøm, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies at age 62. [1]
- May 14
- John Ray Sinnock, American US Mint chief coin engraver (1925-47), dies at age 59. [1] [446.68] [494.60] [626.46]
- May 31
- Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at age 39. [1]
- Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at age 66. [1]
- June 20
- Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills, California. [1] [5] [129] [187.395]
- July 17
- Raoul Wallenberg dies in Lubianka prison in Russia. (According to Soviet officials in 1957, he died of a heart attack, likely brought on by then State Security Chief Viktor Abakumov. According to Soviet spy Pavel Sudoplatov in 1994, he was executed by poison injection after his refusal to be recruited as a spy.) [7]
- August 19
- Birth of Gerald McRaney in Collins, Mississippi, USA; actor (Simon and Simon, Major Dad). [1]
- August 22
- Birth of Cindy Williams in Van Nuys, California, USA; actress (Shirley - Laverne and Shirley). [1]
- September 20
- Fiorello La Guardia, American politician (Mayor-Republican-New York City), dies. [1]
- October 29
- Frances Cleveland Preston, former first lady (USA), dies in Baltimore, Maryland at age 83. [1]
- November 18
- Birth of Jameson Parker in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (American Justice, Simon and Simon). [1]
- December 1
- Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at age 72. [1]
- December 12
- Júlio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at age 70. [1]
- December 14
- Franz Zorell, German Roman Catholic lexicographer, dies at age 84. [1]
- Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 1924-29, 1935-37), dies at age 80. [1]
- December 20
- St-Georges de Bouchélier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at age 71. [1]
- December 28
- Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at age 78. [1]
- December 29
- Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at age 78. [1]
- December 30
- Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at age 58. [1]
- December 31
- Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (SW Africa), dies at age 79. [1]
1948
- January 1
- Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at age 66. [1]
- January 8
- Death of Richard Tauber in London, England (born Richard Denemy in Linz, Austria) at age 55; operatic tenor/composer. [1] [37]
- January 14
- Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at age 42. [1]
- January 30
- Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/general manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies. [1]
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated in New Delhi, at age 78. [1] [129]
- Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, dies at age 76. [1] [5]
- February 5
- Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at age 64. [1]
- February 6
- Robert Brasillach, French author/Nazi collaborator, dies at age 38. [1]
- February 7
- "Red" McKenzie blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies. [1]
- February 9
- Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at age 65. [1]
- February 10
- Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies. [1]
- Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at age 50. [1]
- March 4
- Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at age 51. [1]
- Elsa Brändström [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies at age 59. [1]
- March 5
- Charles Prince, cricket player (5 and 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies. [1]
- March 10
- Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered. [1]
- March 25
- Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at age 42. [1]
- March 26
- Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about age 43. [1]
- March 31
- Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at age 62. [1]
- April 8
- Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at age 40. [1]
- April 9
- Jorge Elecier Gaitán, Colombian politician, is murdered. [1]
- April 14
- Gerhard Anschütz, German professor, dies at age 81. [1]
- April 17
- Percy Sherwell, cricket player (South Africa captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies. [1]
- April 24
- Manuel Marua Ponce; Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at age 65. [1]
- Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at age 54. [1]
- May 1
- Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, is murdered. [1]
- May 16
- CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece. [1]
- May 22
- Claude McKaye, Jamaican/American poet/author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies in Chicago, Illinois at age 57. [1]
- May 25
- Jacques Feyder, actor/director (kermesse héroique), dies at age 59. [1]
- May 29
- May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at age 82. [1]
- July 15
- John J Persing, US General (WW I), dies at age 87. [1]
- July 21
- Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at age 43. [1]
- August 16
- Death of George Herman "Babe" Ruth of throat cancer at age 53 in New York City; baseball player (Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, record 714 home runs). [1] [129]
- September 17
- In Jerusalem, Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of the Swedish King, is murdered by Jewish extremists while mediating peace between Palestinians and Jews. [1] [7]
- October 18
- Walther von Brauchitsch, former Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, dies in British captivity. [10]
- December 4
- Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies. [1]
- December 9
- Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricket player (Bart five Tests England 1884-96), dies. [1]
- December 18
- Janet Fay hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers. [1]
- December 20
- C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at age 85. [1]
- Ladha Ramji, cricket player (brother of Amar Singh, Test India 1933-34), dies. [1]
- December 21
- Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese general/Minister of War, hanged. [1]
- December 23
- Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister, and six other Japanese hanged for war crimes by US. [1]
- December 28
- Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated. [1]
- December 31
- Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at age 63. [1]
1949
- January 1
- Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at age 63. [1]
- January 3
- Death of Robert Aitken, American coin designer. [466.79]
- January 10
- Death of Erich Dagobert von Drygalski in Königsberg, Germany; geographer, glaciologist, professor. [37]
- January 14
- Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at age 66. [1]
- January 15
- Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at age 63. [1]
- January 20
- Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at age 87. [1]
- January 26
- Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at age 65. [1]
- January 31
- Henri de Vries [Hendricus Walterop], actor (Cleopatra), dies at age 84. [1]
- February 18
- Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at age 71. [1]
- February 22
- Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies. [1]
- March 11
- Henri-Honoré Giraud, French General/Member of Parliament, dies at age 70. [1]
- March 12
- Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at age 95. [1]
- March 17
- Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at age 54. [1]
- March 25
- Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at age 54. [1]
- March 30
- Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricket player (4 Tests for India), dies. [1]
- Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel Prize 1931), dies at age 64. [1]
- April 6
- Stanley Christopherson, cricket player (1884, MCC President during WWII), dies. [1]
- April 14
- Joseph A Cushman, American paleontologist, dies at age 68. [1]
- April 15
- Wallace Beery, American actor (The Champ), dies at age 64. [1]
- April 16
- Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka Indonesia, communist, executed at age 54. [1]
- May 2
- Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman. [1]
- May 6
- A L Ochse, cricket player (10 wickets in three Tests for South Africa 1927-29), dies. [1]
- P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel Prize 1911), playwright (Grand Fairie), dies at age 86. [1]
- May 9
- Prince Louis II of Monaco, dies. [1]
- May 22
- Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at age 80. [1]
- Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies at age 42. [1]
- May 25
- Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WWII), dies at age 47. [1]
- May 27
- Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at age 55 in New York. [1] [5]
- June 3
- Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America, dies at age 79. [1]
- September 18
- Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun), dies at age 59. [1] [5]
- November 25
- Luther "Bill" Robinson, famed tap dancer, dies at age 71. [1]
- December 3
- Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Spookies), dies at age 62. [1]
- December 16
- Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, is executed. [1]
- December 28
- Jack Lovelock, New Zealand/American surgeon/athlete (Olympics-gold-1936), dies at age 39. [1]
- W Hervey Allen, American writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at age 60. [1]
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