- 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]
- 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]
- Percy Aldridge Grainger; Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at age 78. [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
- Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at age 37. [1]
- 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
- August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at age 67. [1]
- 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
- Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at age 62. [1]
- 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, American operatic tenor (The Ziegfield Follies of the Air, The Intimate Review, Bell Telephone Hour, Harvest of Stars, The Texaco Star Theatre), of pneumonia at age 56. [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, 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 3
- Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at age 53. [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 6
- Dr Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, dies at age 85. [1]
- 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]
- August 30
- Charles Coburn, Academy award winning actor, dies at age 84. [1]
- September 10
- Leo Carrillo, actor who portrayed Pancho on Cisco Kid, dies at age 81. [1]
- 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 11
- Leonard "Chico" Marx (Marx Brothers), dies at age 74. [1]
- October 24
- Dr Milan Stoyadinovich, Fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1935-39), dies at age 73. [1]
- October 25
- Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at age 75. [1]
- 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 16
- Cato Engelen-Sewing; Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at age 93. [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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