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Notable Deaths - 1953

1953Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, first to announce existence of other galaxies, dies at 63

1953Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85

1953Jim Thorpe, versatile American athlete (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 64

1953Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-53), dies at 73

1953Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29

1953James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 77

1953 Deaths

Date	Event
Jan 1	Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
Jan 1	Hank Williams, The Shawshank Redemption
Jan 1	Ludomir Rózycki, Moralnosc pani Dulskiej
Jan 2	Carl Johannesson, Gustaf III och Bellman
Jan 2	Hilda Borgström, The Phantom Carriage
Jan 3	Maria Loja, The Grand Duke's Finances
Jan 4	Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78
Jan 4	Charles E. Whittaker, His People
Jan 4	Arthur Hoyt, It Happened One Night
Jan 5	Blanche Rose, The Old Swimmin' Hole
Jan 5	Jerome Ash, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Jan 7	Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
Jan 7	Osa Johnson, Baboona
Jan 8	Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer, dies at 78
Jan 8	Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)

Jan 8	Lee Dixon, Angel and the Badman
Jan 8	Alexandre Arnaudy, Cigalon
Jan 9	Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89
Jan 9	Leila McIntyre, The Prisoner of Shark Island
Jan 10	Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56
Jan 10	John Corfield, Gaslight
Jan 10	Theo Mackeben, Bel Ami
Jan 10	Hans Aanrud, Storfolk og småfolk
Jan 11	Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53
Jan 11	Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 58
Jan 11	Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84
Jan 12	Simeon Roncal, composer, dies at 82
Jan 12	Helene Caverly, Danger Ahead
Jan 12	Maja Cassel, Fången på Karlstens fästning
Jan 13	Paul Niggli, Swiss Mineralogist (crystal structures), dies at 64
Jan 15	Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
Jan 15	Oscar Holst, Under Vesterbros Glødelamper
Jan 17	Seymour Zeliff, For Professional Reasons
Jan 18	Arthur Wood, Chicken Run
Jan 19	Marshall Ruth, Pep Up
Jan 20	Nila Mac, War Brides
Jan 21	Pierre Sarda, Baccara
Jan 21	Andor Gábor, Mickey Magnate
Jan 22	Alma Chester, Sundown Trail
Jan 22	Cecil Bevan, Bardell Against Pickwick
Jan 23	Andrés de Segurola, One Night of Love
Jan 23	Hanns Groth, Zugverkehr unregelmäßig
Jan 23	William L. Roubert, Heritage
Jan 24	[Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt, gen-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77
Jan 24	Emil Stettner, Heinrich Heines erste Liebe
Jan 24	Karel Van Rijn, De storm in het leven
Jan 24	J.K. McDonald, A Self-Made Failure
Jan 25	Fred Preble, The Terror of Tiny Town
Jan 25	Marie Ptáková, Její pastorkyne
Jan 25	William Tubbs, The Wages of Fear
Jan 26	Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58
Jan 26	Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
Jan 26	A. Pam Blumenthal, The Birds and the Beasts Were There
Jan 27	John Bergqvist, En färd på Kinda kanal
Jan 27	Mervyn Shea, The Stratton Story
Jan 28	James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
Jan 28	Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
Jan 28	Cliff Herbert, The Grapes of Wrath
Jan 28	Neyzen Tevfik, Onu affettim
Jan 28	Conrad von Wangenheim, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Jan 29	Bert Lubin, Your Friend and Mine
Jan 30	Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68
Jan 30	Lionel Belmore, Frankenstein
Jan 30	Stanley Logan, As He Was Born
Jan 30	Miroslav Innemann, Cholera v Praze
Jan 31	Jack Fuqua, Ace of Cactus Range
Jan 31	Edna Payne, The Higher Duty
Feb 2	Gustav Strube, composer, dies at 85
Feb 2	George C. Hull, The Freeze-Out
Feb 2	Alan Curtis, High Sierra
Feb 2	Caroline Rankin, Be My Wife
Feb 2	Gustave Kleeman, The Slacker's Heart
Feb 2	Aranka Hettyey, Páris királya
Feb 2	Dorothy Hall, Working Girls
Feb 3	Oscar Langkilde, Hamlet
Feb 4	Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60
Feb 4	James Flood, Wings in the Dark
Feb 4	Paul Renay, Shadows on the Stairs
Feb 4	Charles E. Lynch, The Black Pirate
Feb 4	Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven
Feb 5	Kenneth Hopkins, Cover Girl
Feb 6	Edgar Norton, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Feb 7	Willy Castello, Confessions of a Vice Baron
Feb 8	Cliff Clark, actor (Golden Hoofs, Kid Glove Killer), dies at 63
Feb 8	Hubert I. Stowitts, The Magician
Feb 8	Mario Casaleggio, Mister Max
Feb 8	Cliff Clark, The Grapes of Wrath
Feb 9	Richard Fryer, Flash Gordon
Feb 9	Cecil M. Hepworth, Alice in Wonderland
Feb 9	Raymond Dandy, Kri-Kri fuma l'oppio
Feb 10	Fred Farrell, Casablanca
Feb 10	May Blaney, The Old Wood Carver
Feb 11	Will E. Dulmage, Night Time in Nevada
Feb 11	Elbert D. Thomas,
Feb 12	Gyula Somogyváry, John, the Hero
Feb 12	Raymond Knight, Signing Off
Feb 12	Georges Flateau, Le bluff
Feb 12	Eino Jurkka, Vihtori ja Klaara
Feb 12	Carl Froelich, Mädchen in Uniform
Feb 13	Manfred Curry, Boote mit Flügeln
Feb 14	William J. O'Brien, The Thing from Another World
Feb 14	André Brulé, Le château des quatre obèses
Feb 14	Alvin Lange, Get 'Em Young
Feb 15	Sidney Lawford, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Feb 15	Karen Poulsen, Ditte, Child of Man
Feb 16	Henri Poupon, Jofroi
Feb 17	Holger Sjöberg, South of the Highway
Feb 18	Charles Herzinger, The Bat
Feb 19	Edward L. Hemmer, Birthright
Feb 19	Thomas Heaphy, The Delinquent
Feb 20	Wallace Kerrigan, The Tale of the Ticker
Feb 20	Gene Leslie, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Feb 21	William Lemuels, The Sea Fiend
Feb 22	Robert Piguet, The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Feb 23	Major Merriweather, The Big Something
Feb 24	Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
Feb 24	Gerd von Rundstedt, Triumph of the Will
Feb 25	Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49
Feb 26	Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper, Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies
Feb 27	Gustaf Hellström, Storm över Tjurö
Feb 27	Paul Hurst, Gone with the Wind
Feb 27	Jessica Grayson, The Little Foxes
Feb 27	Mort Glickman, Machine Gun Mama
Mar 1	Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
Mar 2	Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
Mar 2	Roman Cirin, Pierwsze dni
Mar 3	James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 77
Mar 3	James J. Jeffries, Jeffries-Sharkey Contest
Mar 4	Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
Mar 5	Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-53), dies at 73
Mar 5	Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukrainian composer, dies at 61
Mar 5	Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
Mar 5	Jess Herring, A Midnight Bell
Mar 5	Sergei Prokofiev, Children of Men
Mar 5	Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin
Mar 5	Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane
Mar 5	Ed W. Rote, The Corpse Vanishes
Mar 6	Robert Thornby, Quantrell's Son
Mar 6	Maud Gage Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Mar 6	Junius Estep, Shanghai Express
Mar 6	Ray Gallagher, The Prisoner's Story
Mar 7	Max Rée, Cimarron
Mar 7	Edward Sedgwick, The Cameraman
Mar 8	Charles Marsh, Cloak and Dagger
Mar 10	Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
Mar 11	Paul Lamkoff, A Night at the Opera
Mar 13	Isabel Villaseñor, Thunder Over Mexico
Mar 14	Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
Mar 14	Klement Gottwald,
Mar 15	Carl Stockdale, The Bank
Mar 16	Matthew Smith, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Mar 17	Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
Mar 17	Conrado del Campo, La nao capitana
Mar 17	Frank Griffin, Ella Cinders
Mar 19	Pyotr Yermolov, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Mar 19	Irène Bordoni, Louisiana Purchase
Mar 19	Lee Phelps, Anna Christie
Mar 20	Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
Mar 20	Graciliano Ramos, Barren Lives
Mar 20	John Alden, Red Sky at Morning
Mar 21	Rosa Palmese, Kitty Foyle
Mar 22	James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
Mar 22	Gaston Briese, Emma III
Mar 23	Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
Mar 23	Maksymilian Chmielarczyk, Young Chopin
Mar 23	Oskar Luts, Kevade
Mar 23	Raoul Dufy, Changing Lanes
Mar 24	Mary, [Victoria Mary] of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
Mar 24	Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
Mar 24	Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
Mar 24	Queen Mary, Cambridgeshire Race Meet
Mar 24	Dick Botiller, Torrid Zone
Mar 25	Julius Geisendörfer, Menschen im Rausch
Mar 26	Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
Mar 26	Harry Schenck, Beyond Bengal
Mar 26	Klaus S. Richter, Maybe... Maybe Not
Mar 27	Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
Mar 28	Jim Thorpe, versatile American athlete (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 64
Mar 28	Helen Biggar, Hell Unlimited
Mar 28	Jim Thorpe, Wagon Master
Mar 29	Arthur Fields, Before I Disappear
Mar 30	Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75
Mar 30	Bert Bailey, On Our Selection
Mar 30	Charles Løwaas, Ditte, Child of Man
Mar 31	Ivan Lebedeff, The Shanghai Gesture
Mar 31	John L. McCutcheon, The Inventors
Apr 1	Richard Massingham, The Cure
Apr 1	Giulio Stival, The Overcoat
Apr 2	Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
Apr 2	Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher
Apr 2	Frederik Fuglsang, A Trip to Mars
Apr 3	André-ani, The Wind
Apr 4	Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59
Apr 4	Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93
Apr 4	Harry Schumm, Unmasked
Apr 4	King Carol II,
Apr 4	Art Fowler, Law Men
Apr 5	Pierre Ringel, Strangers in the House
Apr 6	Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
Apr 6	Fred C. Brannon, Radar Men from the Moon
Apr 7	Václav Vydra, Kdyz struny lkají
Apr 7	Yoshie Nakagawa, A Page of Madness
Apr 10	Albin Robeling, The Lovable Cheat
Apr 10	Irving Klein, The Traveling Saleswoman
Apr 11	Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
Apr 11	Hugh Cummings, Earthworm Tractors
Apr 12	Maidel Turner, The Raven
Apr 14	Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
Apr 14	Harry A. Earnshaw, Chandu the Magician
Apr 14	F.L. Green, Odd Man Out
Apr 14	William Postance, Sherlock Holmes
Apr 16	Gerda Krum-Juncker, The Hostage
Apr 16	E.M. Newman, High Spots of the Far East
Apr 16	Bruce Sievier, Sweet and Lowdown
Apr 17	Sailor Sharkey, The Grey Vulture
Apr 18	Roland Asher, The Sawmill
Apr 20	Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62
Apr 20	Jindrich Honzl, Your Money or Your Life
Apr 20	Erich Weinert, Between Day and Night
Apr 20	Charles McAvoy, The E-Flat Man
Apr 21	Emmett King, God of Mankind
Apr 22	Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
Apr 22	August Weigert, Die Irre von Schloss Ihörringhuus
Apr 22	Reginald Purdell, Pack Up Your Troubles
Apr 22	Harry Spingler, A Study in Sociology
Apr 23	Mike Moser, Space Patrol
Apr 23	Peter De Rose, There's Something About Mary
Apr 23	Richard Eivenack, Das Bad auf der Tenne
Apr 26	Bob Moak, In the Navy
Apr 26	Rian James, 42nd Street
Apr 28	Sarah Adler, Sins of the Parents
Apr 28	Osmo Saarnio, Serenaadiluutnantti
Apr 29	Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
Apr 29	Ernest Pagano, Shall We Dance
Apr 29	Kiki of Montparnasse, The Starfish
Apr 30	Lily Brayton, Kismet
May 1	Everett Shinn, Soul-Fire
May 3	Shinobu Origuchi, The Book of the Dead
May 4	Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
May 4	Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
May 5	Frank La Forge, The Gay Desperado
May 6	Kathy Tongay, Skirts Ahoy!
May 6	Harold Warrender, Scott of the Antarctic
May 7	Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
May 8	Richard Eichberg, The Tiger of Eschnapur
May 8	Gus Taillon, Top o' the Morning
May 9	Buckleigh Fritz Oxford, The Demon
May 9	Ken Lundy, Junior G-Men
May 10	Harry Rosenthal, Sullivan's Travels
May 11	Jean Adair, dies at 80
May 11	Jean Adair, In the Name of the Law
May 11	Jean Adair, Arsenic and Old Lace
May 11	Margarete Kupfer, I Don't Want to Be a Man
May 12	Peter L. Shamray, Hearts and Fists
May 13	Cecil Spooner, Nell of the Circus
May 13	Mrs. A.W. Filson, The Squaw Man
May 14	Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
May 14	Lulu Beeson, You Belong to Me
May 14	Fred Santley, Morning Glory
May 14	Crauford Kent, Mutiny on the Bounty
May 14	Tamari Abakelya, Giorgi Saakadze
May 15	Mabel Love, In Another Girl's Shoes
May 15	Voldemar Vetluguin, East Side, West Side
May 16	Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
May 16	Django Reinhardt, The Matrix
May 17	Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73
May 17	Howard Fogg, Rhapsody in Two Languages
May 17	Eric DeLamarter, Humoresque
May 17	Leon Xanrof, The Love Parade
May 18	Tom Killick, cricketer (at the crease 2 Tests for Eng 1929), dies
May 18	Mozelle Britton, The Fighting Ranger
May 19	Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
May 22	Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70
May 22	Frederick J. Jackson, The Stolen Actress
May 23	Florence Dudley, Slaves in Bondage
May 24	Cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63
May 24	Rafal Praga, Odpowiedz
May 24	Cor Hermus, Fientje Peters - Poste restante
May 26	Albert Spalding, Albert Spalding
May 26	Vedat Örfi Bengü, Atesten gömlek
May 26	George Hamer, Rope of Sand
May 27	Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
May 28	Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
May 28	Tatsuo Hori, Sei kazoku - yamatoji
May 28	Frank Thorne, The Thunderbolt
May 29	Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
May 29	Man Mountain Dean, The Gladiator
May 29	Max Wilmsen, Die Goldgrube
May 29	Frank Allenby, The Flame and the Arrow
May 30	George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
May 30	Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
May 30	George Barnes, Rebecca
May 30	Dooley Wilson, Casablanca
May 31	Richard Rosson, Scarface
Jun 2	Burr Caruth, New Frontier
Jun 3	David Wold, Berlin Express
Jun 3	H. Tipton Steck, Gun Law
Jun 4	William T. Tilden, Tennis Technique
Jun 4	Tasman Higgins, In the Wake of the Bounty
Jun 5	Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
Jun 5	Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65
Jun 5	William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76
Jun 5	James Shelley Hamilton, Rugged Water
Jun 5	Roland Young, The Philadelphia Story
Jun 5	William Farnum, Samson and Delilah
Jun 6	Hans Alpassy, Melusine
Jun 7	Helen St. Rayner, I Married a Witch
Jun 7	Curley Dresden, Zorro's Fighting Legion
Jun 8	Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68
Jun 8	Al Luttringer, A Song to Remember
Jun 8	Godfrey Tearle, The 39 Steps
Jun 9	Ugo Betti, dramatist, dies
Jun 9	Alexandre Arquillière, The Smiling Madame Beudet
Jun 9	Jenö Bodnár, A tanítónö
Jun 9	Ugo Betti, Bengasi
Jun 10	Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 73
Jun 10	John Blom, Fadren
Jun 10	Grzegorz Fitelberg, Janko Muzykant
Jun 11	Joe Harris, And Saucy at That
Jun 11	Joe Harris, The Face Most Fair
Jun 11	Marcel Herrand, Fan-Fan the Tulip
Jun 13	J.S. Zamecnik, The Wedding March
Jun 14	Osip Abdulov, Ostrov sokrovishch
Jun 14	Nato Vachnadze, Arsena
Jun 14	Gladys Rosson, The Greatest Show on Earth
Jun 16	Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
Jun 16	Hans Pebal, Das verlorene Ich
Jun 17	Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
Jun 17	Engelbert Menninger Jr., Bellaria - So lange wir leben!
Jun 17	John B. Hymer, Law of the Underworld
Jun 18	Grigory Lobachov, Ded Moroz i seryy volk. Novogodnyaya skazka.
Jun 19	Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
Jun 19	Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
Jun 19	Marty Symes, The Godfather
Jun 19	Ethel Rosenberg,
Jun 19	Julius Rosenberg,
Jun 19	Frank A. Ford, Motherhood
Jun 20	Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
Jun 20	J.P. Pinchon, C'était écrit
Jun 20	Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama
Jun 22	Harry Geise, Public Hero #1
Jun 23	Hervey Libbert, Journey's End
Jun 23	Murray Waite, High Noon
Jun 23	Gardner James, Captain Blood
Jun 24	Aubrey Scotto, 1,000 Dollars a Minute
Jun 24	Jean Marco, Il était... trois chansons
Jun 24	Edmund Breon, Gaslight
Jun 24	Tom Shale, The Night Porter
Jun 25	Algy Gehrs, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1904-11), dies
Jun 25	Fritz Kirchhoff, My Friend Barbara
Jun 27	Chris-Pin Martin, The Ox-Bow Incident
Jun 28	Neil McKinnon, The Phantom Horseman
Jun 28	Bill McLellan, The Grapes of Wrath
Jun 28	Ed Voight, Caged
Jun 29	Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70
Jun 30	Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
Jun 30	Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
Jun 30	Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
Jun 30	Vsevolod Pudovkin, Storm Over Asia
Jun 30	Ivan Stepanov, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Jun 30	Ivor Barnard, Great Expectations
Jun 30	Elsa Beskow, Nötknäpparen
Jun 30	Beatrice Grimshaw, Black Cargoes of the South Seas
Jul 1	Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
Jul 1	Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
Jul 3	Károly Komjáthy, Fizessen, nagysád!
Jul 3	Irving Reis, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Jul 4	Hosea Steelman, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Jul 4	Marcelo Tupinambá, The Best Things in the World
Jul 4	Charles Ross Taggart, Charles Ross Taggart
Jul 4	Ethel B. Borden, I Live My Life
Jul 4	Pat Lane, She's a Sweetheart
Jul 5	Boyce DeGaw, If I Had a Million
Jul 5	Titto Ruffo, Titto Ruffo
Jul 6	Julia De Burgos, Julia: All in Me
Jul 7	Maude Gilbert, A Gilded Fool
Jul 7	Tsumasaburô Bandô, Inazuma sôshi
Jul 7	Edmond Navratil,
Jul 8	Frankie Bailey, The Crown of Lies
Jul 8	Rosemonde Gerard, A Good Little Devil
Jul 8	John Farrell, The Quarry
Jul 10	Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
Jul 10	Sidney Homer, Bright Road
Jul 10	Aleksander Randviir, Valgus Koordis
Jul 11	Harvey Poirier, Artists & Models
Jul 11	Pascale Perry, Eyes of Texas
Jul 11	Sydney Grant, Jane
Jul 11	Vladimer Mujiri, Mamatsi mtamsvlelebi
Jul 11	Rene Traveletti, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jul 12	Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
Jul 12	Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
Jul 12	Herbert Rawlinson, Dark Victory
Jul 13	Kirke Brown, Behind the Mask
Jul 14	Edna May Spooner, Man and Wife
Jul 15	Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882)
Jul 15	John Christie,
Jul 16	Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
Jul 16	Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
Jul 16	Leo Chalzel, Men in White
Jul 17	Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
Jul 17	Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
Jul 17	Maxwell Aley, You're Not So Tough
Jul 17	B. van Sigtenhorst-Meyer, Willem van Oranje
Jul 17	Maude Adams,
Jul 18	Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
Jul 18	Sigfred Johansen, Hans store aften
Jul 19	Aaron Klein, King of the Stallions
Jul 19	Aranka Laczkó, A vén bakancsos és fia, a huszár
Jul 19	Ole M. Ness, Dawn to Dawn
Jul 20	Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
Jul 20	Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
Jul 20	Ruggero Ruggeri, Sant'Elena piccola isola
Jul 20	Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
Jul 22	Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55
Jul 22	Wayne Rivers, Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Jul 22	Germaine Reuver, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Jul 22	Cy Kendall, Tarzan's New York Adventure
Jul 24	Charles W. Tobey, Episode dated 24 February 1952
Jul 25	Alice Saunders, Dolly Does Her Bit
Jul 26	Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
Jul 26	Clyde De Vinna, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Jul 27	Frank Alustiza, The Big Game
Jul 28	Robert Disney,
Jul 29	Werner Bernhardy, Hokum
Jul 31	Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies in NY at 63
Jul 31	Robert A. Taft, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy
Jul 31	Kornel Makuszynski, The Two Who Stole the Moon
Aug 1	W.A. Andlauer, As the World Rolls On
Aug 1	Zachary Gold, Humoresque
Aug 1	Mannus Franken, Regen
Aug 1	Christian Borgen, Haanden, der griber
Aug 3	Harry Lang, Who's Who?
Aug 3	Ilona Vas, Kansas Pacific
Aug 3	Leopoldo 'Chato' Ortín, Horse for Horse
Aug 3	Mark Strong, The Tiger's Trail
Aug 3	Harry Jackson, The Band Wagon
Aug 3	Walter Oberst, Double Indemnity
Aug 4	Béla Tompa, Kettesben
Aug 4	Al Nicklin, The Shanghai Cobra
Aug 6	Houseley Stevenson, Dark Passage
Aug 6	John Reinhardt, Chicago Calling
Aug 7	Carl Fisher, Min kone er husar
Aug 7	Carl Fischer, Flådens blå matroser
Aug 8	Ragnhild Sannom, Dancing Madness
Aug 8	J. Carlton Wetherby, Love Will Out
Aug 9	Henri Étiévant, La vendetta del giusto
Aug 9	Leo Silesu, Smilin' Through
Aug 10	Stanley Mann, Mrs. Miniver
Aug 10	Rowland G. Edwards, The Man from Yesterday
Aug 11	Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
Aug 11	Tazio Nuvolari, Totò al giro d'Italia
Aug 11	Frank Titus, If I Had a Million
Aug 12	Kernan Cripps, Daughter of Don Q
Aug 13	Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80
Aug 13	Dimitri Arakishvili, Jurgais pari
Aug 13	Paul Kemp, M
Aug 13	Ryszard Ordynski, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Aug 14	Louis Payne, Big News
Aug 14	Gouverneur Morris, The Penalty
Aug 14	Moacyr Fenelon, O Simpático Jeremias
Aug 15	Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
Aug 16	George Plues, Hit the Saddle
Aug 17	Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
Aug 17	Albert Austin, The Immigrant
Aug 19	Walter Bullock, The Gang's All Here
Aug 19	Merrill McCormick, Robin Hood
Aug 20	Harold Clandenning, Tarzan and the Huntress
Aug 22	Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
Aug 22	Paul Speer, Thousands Cheer
Aug 23	O.M. Steiger, Swiss Miss
Aug 24	Miguel Sandoval, The Gay Desperado
Aug 26	Heikki Klemetti, The Winter War
Aug 26	Henry Woodward, The Last of the Mohicans
Aug 27	Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
Aug 27	Toppo Elonperä, Niin se on, poijaat!
Aug 28	Nikolai Golovanov, Boris Godunov
Aug 29	William Warters, The Girl, Glory
Aug 29	Darrell Fancourt, Never Let Me Go
Aug 30	Dimiter Nenov, composer, dies at 51
Aug 30	Margarete Slezak, Das Mädel aus der Hödrichsmühle
Aug 30	Gaetano Merola, Love Me Forever
Aug 31	Kitty Hott, Chalumeau serrurier par amour
Sep 1	Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
Sep 1	Nathalie Krause, Had og Kærlighed
Sep 1	Jacques Thibaud, Swing Kids
Sep 2	Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
Sep 2	Raffaele Calzini, La commediante veneziana
Sep 2	Jonathan M. Wainwright, Midway Is East
Sep 3	Jack Pfiester, World Series Baseball Game
Sep 4	Henry Laverne, The Lame Devil
Sep 4	Paul Ralli, Show People
Sep 5	Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
Sep 5	Nona Cooper, The Wizard of Oz
Sep 5	Walter Darré, Better Than Gold
Sep 5	Francis Ford, The Quiet Man
Sep 6	Oleg Frelikh, Zhukovsky
Sep 7	Fritz Heitmann, Die steinernen Wunder von Naumburg
Sep 8	Fred M. Vinson,
Sep 8	Walter Bonn, International Crime
Sep 8	Sten Meurk, Sunny Sunberg
Sep 9	Björn Soldan, Suomi kutsuu
Sep 12	Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies
Sep 12	Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
Sep 12	Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
Sep 12	Lewis Stone, The Lost World
Sep 12	George Hommel, The Wizard of Oz
Sep 12	Reinald Werrenrath, Ding Dong School
Sep 12	Bert Lindley, $50,000 Reward
Sep 13	Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73
Sep 15	Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
Sep 15	Louis Beydts, Carnival in Flanders
Sep 15	Juan Aguilar, Viva Villa!
Sep 16	Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
Sep 16	Harry Kernell, The Grapes of Wrath
Sep 16	Viola A. Fortescue, The White Raven
Sep 17	Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80
Sep 17	Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91
Sep 18	Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
Sep 19	Philip Sleeman, The Prisoner of Zenda
Sep 19	Jacob Fleck, Die Ahnfrau
Sep 19	Percival Wilde, The Rise of Duton Lang
Sep 20	Walter Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace
Sep 20	Grace Carlyle, The Eagle's Wings
Sep 21	Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
Sep 22	William Brann, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies
Sep 23	Jeanne Gray, Operation Rescue
Sep 24	Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68
Sep 24	Berthold Viertel, Nora
Sep 24	Percy Honri, The Schooner Gang
Sep 25	Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
Sep 25	Ernö Metzner, Diary of a Lost Girl
Sep 25	Hans Tanzler, Watch on the Rhine
Sep 26	Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
Sep 26	Donald Richards, Episode #3.20
Sep 27	Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
Sep 27	Leonore Harris, The Decoy
Sep 27	Hans Fritzsche,
Sep 28	Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, first to announce existence of other galaxies, dies at 63
Sep 28	Edwin Hubble,
Sep 28	Louis Shapiro, Citizen Kane
Sep 29	Ernst Reuter, Episode #3.39
Sep 30	William Jacobs, Calamity Jane
Sep 30	Adolph Tandler, Queen Kelly
Oct 1	Raymond Lovell, 49th Parallel
Oct 2	Ernö Szép, Lila akác
Oct 2	Povl Vendelbo, Lersøens Konge
Oct 2	Henri Baudin, Napoleon
Oct 2	George Creel, Saved by the Juvenile Court
Oct 3	Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69
Oct 3	Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March), dies at 69
Oct 3	Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
Oct 3	Florence Sabin, American Physician, dies at 82
Oct 3	Arnold Bax, Oliver Twist
Oct 4	César Vanoni, Así es la vida
Oct 5	Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64
Oct 5	Friedrich Wolf, Professor Mamlock
Oct 6	Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64
Oct 6	Porter Hall, Double Indemnity
Oct 7	Ernst Karchow, Die Nacht der Zwölf
Oct 8	Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
Oct 8	Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
Oct 8	Ivy Baldwin, Dirigible Balloons at St. Louis
Oct 8	Kathleen Ferrier, The Taste of Others
Oct 8	Lawrence Kennedy, Irene
Oct 8	Nigel Bruce, Rebecca
Oct 9	James Finlayson, Way Out West
Oct 9	Ruth Rogers, Hidden Gold
Oct 10	Greta Isgrigg, 711 Ocean Drive
Oct 10	Stanislaw Brylinski, Tamten
Oct 11	Frank Dawson, The Woman in the Window
Oct 13	Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter), dies at 50
Oct 13	Millard Mitchell, Singin' in the Rain
Oct 14	Georgi Parlapanov, Ognena dirya
Oct 14	Arthur Wimperis, The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Oct 15	L.E. Oates, Mystery of the Wax Museum
Oct 15	Henry Herzbrun, Sky Parade
Oct 15	John Smith, Forward March
Oct 16	József Nyirö, People on the Alps
Oct 17	Carmen Cartellieri, The Hands of Orlac
Oct 17	Emil E. Reinert, Bed for Two
Oct 18	Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
Oct 18	Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80
Oct 18	Edith Meller, Liebe, Haß und Geld
Oct 19	Árpád Lehotay, Magdolna
Oct 20	Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
Oct 20	Aubrey M. Kennedy, Sky Eye
Oct 20	Fred E. Ahlert, You've Got Mail
Oct 20	Henri Duval, Le Noël du vagabond
Oct 23	Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
Oct 23	Herbert Blaché, The Saphead
Oct 24	Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74
Oct 24	Ernest Irving, Kind Hearts and Coronets
Oct 25	Robert G. Vignola, When Knighthood Was in Flower
Oct 26	Minwei Li, Sun Dayuanshuai Chuxun Guangdong Dongbei Jiang Ji
Oct 26	Orin S. Pinney, Thin Ice
Oct 27	Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer, dies at 71
Oct 27	Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
Oct 27	Martin Schreep, Den store dag
Oct 27	Eduard Künneke, Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Oct 28	Kullervo Hurttia, Huijarien huvittavat huiputtajat
Oct 28	Eleanor Washington, A Rightful Theft
Oct 29	William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
Oct 29	Carl Petersen, Den afbrudte bryllupsnat
Oct 30	Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer of operettas, dies at 71
Oct 30	Emmerich Kálmán, Gloomy Sunday
Oct 31	René Jayet, Une femme a passé
Oct 31	Nikolai Chaplygin, Kreiser Varyag
Nov 1	Bruce Wong, The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Nov 2	Lester Horton, Phantom of the Opera
Nov 2	Joe Bacon, The Last Party
Nov 3	Heinz Förster-Ludwig, Die Wette
Nov 3	Bernhard Bötel, Martha
Nov 4	Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
Nov 6	John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
Nov 6	Henry Wenman, Bachelor's Baby
Nov 7	David Dunbar, Human Cargo
Nov 7	Elsa af Trolle, Den farliga leken
Nov 8	Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
Nov 8	John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
Nov 8	Ivan Bunin, Meshcherskie
Nov 8	Charles Hochberg, If a Body Meets a Body
Nov 9	Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
Nov 9	Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
Nov 9	Dylan Thomas, Chelsea Walls
Nov 9	Augusta Blad, Thru Trials to Victory
Nov 10	Dolly Morse, The Island
Nov 12	Deane H. Dickason, Beautiful Bali
Nov 12	Juan de la Cruz, Roots
Nov 12	Gregor Rabinovitch, Episode
Nov 13	Karl Hannemann, Die Frau meiner Träume
Nov 16	Riccardo Cassano, Se vuoi goder la vita
Nov 16	A. Channing Edington, The Studio Murder Mystery
Nov 16	George W. Weeks, The Midnight Warning
Nov 19	Martin G. Cohn, The Cat and the Canary
Nov 20	Jimmie Dundee, At War with the Army
Nov 21	Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
Nov 21	J.B. Zokovich, Citizen Kane
Nov 21	Larry Shields, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nov 22	Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
Nov 23	Bach, Le train de huit heures quarante-sept
Nov 24	George Alexander Russell, composer, dies at 73
Nov 24	Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70
Nov 24	Tom Walter, Mälarpirater
Nov 25	Tommy Hughes, Manhattan Moon
Nov 25	T. Arthur Hughes, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nov 27	Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
Nov 27	Emil Bønnelycke, Natekspressen P903
Nov 27	Rudolph Bernauer, The Garden of Eden
Nov 27	Henri Bernstein, Mélo
Nov 27	Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Nov 28	Charles Byer, Dead Man's Curve
Nov 29	Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
Nov 29	Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
Nov 29	Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
Nov 29	Thomas R. Mills, No Story
Nov 29	Sam De Grasse, Robin Hood
Nov 29	Milt Gross, Ginger Snaps
Nov 29	Alphons Fryland, Der Geliebte seiner Frau
Nov 30	Francis Picabia, Entr'acte
Nov 30	Mack D'Agostino, Zorro's Fighting Legion
Nov 30	Ernesto Cortázar, La muerte enamorada
Dec 1	Jay Strong, The Moonshine Trail
Dec 1	Ushangi Chkheidze, Komunaris chibukhi
Dec 1	John C. McCallum, The Voice from the Sky
Dec 1	Sophus Madsen, Der var engang
Dec 2	Ernest Hayes, cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
Dec 2	Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
Dec 2	Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
Dec 2	Doris Lytton, Mutiny
Dec 2	George Kirby, Forever and a Day
Dec 2	Rex 'Snowy' Baker, The Man from Kangaroo
Dec 2	Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden
Dec 3	Aleksander Bogusinski, The Shot
Dec 3	Pat Chrisman, Bad Man Bobbs
Dec 3	Alfredo De Antoni, The Clemenceau Affair
Dec 4	Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
Dec 4	Marie Manley, Aired in Court
Dec 5	Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
Dec 5	Jorge Negrete, Canaima
Dec 5	William Parsons,
Dec 5	Rudolph Monter, Voice in the Wind
Dec 5	Hubert Moest, Ut mine stromtid
Dec 6	Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
Dec 6	Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski, Strachy
Dec 6	Merl La Voy, Victorious Serbia
Dec 6	Janusz Dziewonski, Glos pustyni
Dec 7	Bertram Grassby, Fifty Candles
Dec 8	Frederick Ranalow, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Dec 9	Hugo Edlund, En lyckoriddare
Dec 9	Issay Dobrowen, Polikushka
Dec 9	Wing Foo, China's Little Devils
Dec 10	Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
Dec 10	Lucyna Messal, Szczesliwa trzynastka
Dec 10	Bruce Carruthers, Bomba and the Jungle Girl
Dec 10	Jeff Cravath, Trouble Along the Way
Dec 10	Juan Carlos Cobián, The Chambermaid on the Titanic
Dec 11	Albert Coates, Two Girls and a Sailor
Dec 12	Morgan Wallace, Grand Hotel
Dec 12	Arcy-Hennery, Belles vacances
Dec 13	Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, The Most Dangerous Game
Dec 13	Coit Albertson, The Evil Dead
Dec 13	Knut Björlin, Nobelpristagaren
Dec 14	Bertha Belmore, Be Careful, Mr. Smith
Dec 14	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
Dec 15	Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
Dec 15	Ed Barrow, The Pride of the Yankees
Dec 15	Cecil Trouncer, Pygmalion
Dec 16	Hector V. Sarno, Cobra
Dec 17	Steven Slesinger, Stagecoach to Denver
Dec 19	Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
Dec 19	Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
Dec 19	Rudolf Leonhardt, Diary of a Lost Girl
Dec 19	Lew Harvey, The Oklahoma Kid
Dec 20	Henry Horatio Dixon, Irish Biologist (cohesion-tension theory in plants), dies at 84
Dec 23	Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
Dec 23	Lavrenti Beria,
Dec 24	Pinch Thomas, 1915 World's Championship Series
Dec 24	Chet Thomas, Warming Up
Dec 24	Michel Vadet, Perfectionist
Dec 25	Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
Dec 26	L.K. Smith, Marching On!
Dec 26	Art Spang, The Merry Widow
Dec 27	Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
Dec 27	Julian Tuwim, Lokomotywa
Dec 28	Gavin Young, The Mission of a Bullet
Dec 28	George Henninger, Episode #1.2
Dec 29	Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
Dec 29	Francesco Pastonchi, Gli emigranti
Dec 29	Violet MacMillan, The New Wizard of Oz
Dec 30	Fred Hamer, The Beat of the Year
Dec 30	Heinrich Haas, A Devil of a Woman
Dec 31	Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64
Dec 31	Nikolai Dorokhin, The Last Night
Dec 31	Jere Delaney, Rubeville
Dec 31	Baldwin Cooke, High C's

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