- January 20
- Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered at age 51. [1]
- January 22
- Lyndon B Johnson, US President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at age 64. [1]
- January 24
- Alan Lisette, cricket player (took three wickets in two Tests for New Zealand 1956), dies. [1]
- J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan - Adventures of Charlie Chan), dies at age 72. [1]
- January 26
- Edward G Robinson [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), dies at age 79. [1]
- Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about age 71. [1]
- January 28
- John Banner, actor (Sergeant Schultz - Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday. [1]
- January 29
- Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at age 89. [1]
- January 30
- Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at age 54. [1]
- January 31
- Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 77. [1]
- February 2
- Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at age 70. [1]
- February 6
- Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at age 74. [1]
- February 8
- Herbie Taylor, cricket player (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies. [1]
- February 9
- Max Yasgur, owner of Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at age 53. [1]
- February 11
- Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1963), dies at age 65. [1] [37]
- February 15
- Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at age 55. [1]
- Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at age 48. [1]
- February 16
- Pieter Van der Bijl cricket player (outstanding South African bat in 1938-39), dies. [1]
- February 18
- Franc Costello, US gangster, dies at age 82. [1]
- February 20
- Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at age 80. [1]
- Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at age 60. [1]
- February 22
- Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in London, England, at age 72. [1]
- Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at age 72. [1]
- Winthrop Rockefeller, US Governor (Arkansas), dies at age 60. [1]
- February 24
- Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at age 73. [1]
- February 26
- Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at age 68. [1]
- February 27
- Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at age 72. [1]
- February 28
- Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at age 78. [1]
- Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at age 79. [1]
- March 2
- Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated. [1]
- March 5
- Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at age 45. [1]
- March 6
- Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at age 72. [1]
- Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (The Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at age 80. [1]
- Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at age 67. [1]
- March 7
- André de Meulemeester, Belgian WWI pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at age 78. [1]
- March 8
- Gordon Leggat, cricket player (9 Tests for New Zealand, 351 runs at 21 93), dies. [1]
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at age 27. [1]
- March 10
- Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated. [1]
- March 12
- Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at age 74. [1]
- Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at age 77. [1]
- March 13
- Stacy Harris, actor (Door With No Name, Appointment with Danger), dies at age 54. [1]
- March 14
- Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at age 72. [1]
- March 16
- Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law, Trap, Underwater City), dies at age 79. [1]
- M Revis [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 17
- Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (Two Orphans), dies at age 81. [1]
- March 18
- Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at age 82. [1]
- March 23
- Ken Maynard, actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at age 77. [1]
- March 25
- Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography, dies at age 92. [1]
- March 26
- George Sisler, hall of famer first baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at age 80. [1]
- Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at age 73. [1]
- Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at age 67. [1]
- March 28
- Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies. [1]
- April 1
- Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies. [1]
- April 7
- Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at age 69. [1]
- April 8
- Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies near Mougins, France at age 91. [1] [5]
- April 11
- Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn - Steve Canyon), dies at age 69. [1]
- April 13
- Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at age 73. [1]
- April 14
- Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in Seven Lessons), dies at age 88. [1]
- April 16
- István Kertész, Hungarian-born German conductor (London Symphony), dies at age 43. [1]
- April 19
- Death of Hans Kelsen in Berkeley, California at age 91 (born in Prague, Austria-Hungary 1881); jurist, developed the "pure theory" of law, professor in Vienna, Cologne, Geneva and Prague, judge on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920-30), taught at Harvard and University of California at Berkeley, author (Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre 1911, Allgemeine Staatslehre 1925, Reine Rechtslehre 1934, The Law of the United Nations 1950, Was ist Gerechtigkeit 1953). [37]
- April 20
- Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at age 82. [1]
- April 21
- Ursula Jeans [McMinn], actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at age 66. [1]
- April 23
- Otto Eissfeldt; German old testament scholar, dies at age 85. [1]
- April 26
- Irene Ryan, actress (Granny - The Beverly Hillbillies), dies at age 71 six weeks after suffering a stroke while performing in the Broadway musical Pippin. [1] [467]
- April 27
- Jim Sims, cricket player (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies. [1]
- Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at age 72. [1]
- April 28
- Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at age 62. [1]
- April 30
- Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at age 75. [1]
- May 2
- Alan Carney, actor (Herbie - Take it from Me), dies at age 61. [1]
- May 8
- Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA at age 100. [1] [56]
- May 11
- Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies. [1]
- May 12
- Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at age 85. [1]
- May 15
- Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at age 95. [1]
- May 17
- Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at age 91. [1]
- May 18
- Jeannette Rankin, first US Congresswoman (1917-19, 1941-43), dies at age 92. [1]
- May 21
- Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at age 79. [1]
- George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at age 53. [1]
- Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at age 61. [1]
- May 23
- Athena Lorde, actress (Judith - One Man's Family, Fuzz, Skin Game), dies at age 57. [1]
- May 28
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at age 73. [1]
- Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at age 81. [1]
- May 30
- Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at age 66. [1]
- May 31
- Albert Egges van Giffen; Dutch archaeologist, dies at age 89. [1]
- June 4
- Arna Bontemps, writer/educator, dies at age 72 in Nashville, Tennessee. [1]
- Murray Wilson, father of Beach Boys' Brian, Carl, and Dennis, dies at age 55. [1]
- June 11
- Death of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in Irschenhausen, Germany; chief of staff to General von Rundstedt, devised a plan for the invasion of France through the Ardennes, commanded the 56th Panzer Corps. [37]
- June 17
- Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at age 66. [1]
- June 19
- Roger Delgado, actor (Adventures of Sir Francis Drake), dies at age 53. [1]
- June 21
- Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at age 64. [1]
- June 23
- Fay Holden, actress (Mother - Andy Hardy films), dies at age 77. [1]
- June 27
- Ernest Truex, actor (Pop - Pete and Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at age 73. [1]
- June 30
- Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary four horsemen, dies. [1]
- July 2
- George Macready, actor (Martin Peyton - Peyton Place), dies at age 73. [1]
- Swede Savage dies from injuries at Indianapolis 500. [1]
- July 6
- Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at age 63. [1]
- Death of Otto Klemperer in Zürich, Switzerland (born in Breslau, Germany); conductor (operas of Hamburg, Barmen, Strassburg, Cologne Wiesbaden, Berlin, Los Angeles, Budapest). [37]
- July 11
- Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester - Our Miss Brooks), dies at age 83. [1]
- July 13
- Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at age 67. [1]
- July 14
- Clarence White, guitarist (The Byrds), killed by a car. [1]
- July 18
- Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben - Four Just Men), dies at age 62. [1]
- July 20
- Bruce Lee, karate star/actor (Green Hornet), dies. [5]
- August 4
- Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at age 68. [1]
- August 6
- Death of Fulgencio Batista, former dictator of Cuba, in Spain at age 72. [129]
- August 11
- Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill - Lawman), dies at age 46. [1]
- August 17
- Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer winning poet, dies at age 74. [1]
- August 24
- Billy Greene, actor (Burton - One Man's Family), dies at age 76. [1]
- September 11
- Chile's President, Salvador Allende, is deposed in a military coup by General Augusto Pinochet. Allende is killed, most likely by suicide. (In the following days, about 13,500 civilians are arrested and imprisoned; hundreds are executed.) [1] [46.14,87]
- September 15
- King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden dies. [7]
- September 16
- Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at age 63. [1]
- September 20
- Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender - Gunsmoke), dies at age 74. [1]
- Jim Croce, singer/songwriter ("Time In A Bottle", "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"), dies in a plane crash at age 30. [1]
- September 28
- Norma Crane, actress (Rayola - Mr Peepers), dies at age 42. [1]
- October 1
- Joe Devlin, actor (Sam - Dick Tracy), dies at age 74. [1]
- October 2
- Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won six Olympic gold medals, dies. [1]
- Paul Hartman, actor (Bert - Petticoat Junction), dies at age 68. [1]
- October 8
- Death of Syrian Brigadier General Omar Abrash, when his commanding tank against Israeli tanks takes a direct hit. [118.40]
- October 18
- Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at age 79. [1]
- October 24
- Allan "Rocky" Lane, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), dies at age 72. [1]
- October 25
- Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympics-gold 1960, 1964), dies at age 46. [1]
- November 11
- Stringbean [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at age 58. [1]
- November 21
- Allan Sherman, singer ("Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah"), dies at age 48. [1]
- November 26
- Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death. [1]
- November 30
- Bruce Yarnell of Los Angeles, California, actor (Outlaws), dies at age 35. [1]
- December 1
- David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at age 87. [1]
- December 3
- Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny - It's a Great Life), dies at age 67. [1]
- December 4
- Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at age 67. [1]
- December 6
- Robert A Watson-Watt, physicist (radar), dies at age 81 in England. [1]
- December 10
- Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at age 81. [1]
- December 16
- Syd Barnes, cricket player (13 Tests for Australia 1938-48), dies. [1]
- December 17
- Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at age 101. [1]
- December 20
- Bobby Darin, singer ("Mack the Knife"), dies of heart failure at age 37. [1]
- Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA. [1]
- December 22
- Irna Phillips, creator of five TV soap operas, dies at age 72. [1]
- December 23
- Arthur Richardson, cricket player (9 Tests 1924-26), dies. [1]
- December 25
- Ismet Inönü [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister (1923-65), dies at age 89. [1]
- December 26
- Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at age 74. [1]
- Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at age 69. [1]
- William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at age 73. [1]
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