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Notable Deaths - 1955

1955James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24

1955Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1955Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73

1955Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi

1955Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer, dies of a heart attack at 73

1955Honus Wagner, baseball player, dies at 81

1955 Deaths

Date	Event
Jan 1	Mildred Delfino, Framing Framers
Jan 2	Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
Jan 2	Dianna Cyrus Bixby, This Island Earth
Jan 2	Pina Piovani, Guardie e ladri
Jan 3	Harvey Dwight, Blood on the Sun
Jan 4	Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80
Jan 4	Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81
Jan 4	Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84
Jan 4	Clyde Bruckman, The General
Jan 4	Édouard-Émile Violet, L'auberge
Jan 4	René Plaissetty, The Four Feathers
Jan 5	Marcel Déat,
Jan 6	Gertrud Eysoldt, Hotelgeheimnisse
Jan 7	Gerald Hartigan, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
Jan 7	Arthur Keith, Scottish Anthropologist, dies at 88

Jan 7	Tage Hertel, Stodderprinsessen
Jan 9	Edward Kaufman, The Gay Divorcee
Jan 10	Horace Annesley Vachell, Lord Camber's Ladies
Jan 11	Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72
Jan 11	Anne Crawford Flexner, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Jan 12	Virginia Thomas, The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Jan 13	Charmian London, Jack London
Jan 13	Edward Polo, Wichita
Jan 14	William Cooper Smith, Lucky Star
Jan 14	Léonce Cargue, Genêt d'Espagne
Jan 15	Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
Jan 15	Daniel A. Lord, The King of Kings
Jan 15	Yves Tanguy, 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
Jan 15	Isak Samokovlija, Hanka
Jan 15	Wynn Mace, The Great K & A Train Robbery
Jan 16	Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch min (1908-13), dies
Jan 16	Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94
Jan 16	Herbert C. Walton, Hobson's Choice
Jan 17	J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
Jan 17	Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
Jan 17	Dietzenschmidt, Die kleine Sklavin
Jan 17	Kathleen Kay, 7th Heaven
Jan 18	Saadat Hassan Manto, Kisan Kanya
Jan 19	Gus Arnheim, Amélie
Jan 19	Zdenka Rydlová-Kvapilová, Idyla ze staré Prahy
Jan 21	Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59
Jan 21	Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
Jan 21	Maurice Browne, The Improper Duchess
Jan 22	George Bricker, The Devil Bat
Jan 22	Edward Salven, The Ten Commandments
Jan 24	Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
Jan 24	Ira H. Hayes, Sands of Iwo Jima
Jan 25	Sigrid Neiiendam, Fra den gamle Købmandsgaard
Jan 25	Anatole Robbins, Invaders from Mars
Jan 25	Ica von Lenkeffy, Othello
Jan 25	Emily Chichester, Wedding Bells
Jan 26	Norman L. Sper, Song of the Caballero
Jan 26	Newell Chase, The Cider House Rules
Jan 27	Ernst Penzoldt, writer, dies
Jan 27	Ernst Penzoldt, Es kommt ein Tag
Jan 27	Robert F. McGowan, The Little Rascals
Jan 29	Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51
Jan 31	John R Mott, US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
Jan 31	Ford Washington Lee, Cabin in the Sky
Jan 31	Joe Allen, Alice and the Dog Catcher
Feb 1	Arnold Sjöstrand, Gula kliniken
Feb 4	Annie Mar, Charlie Chan at the Circus
Feb 5	Ralph Kellard, The Precious Parcel
Feb 6	Christen Jul, Vampyr
Feb 7	Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, The Deep End
Feb 7	Betty Scott, The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did As Well As Could Be Expected
Feb 9	Julio Alonso, The Lost Weekend
Feb 9	Larry Clifford, Johnny Eager
Feb 10	Sid Brod, This Is the Life
Feb 11	Margaret Fealy, Mad Youth
Feb 11	Ona Munson, Gone with the Wind
Feb 11	Maria Labia, Il re d'Inghilterra non paga
Feb 11	Dean Daily, The World Gone Mad
Feb 12	Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
Feb 12	Charles Haefeli, Les Misérables
Feb 12	S.Z. Sakall, Casablanca
Feb 12	Tom Moore, Manhandled
Feb 13	Abigail Adams, Colorado Serenade
Feb 13	Marcella Mariani, Senso
Feb 14	Charles Cuvillier, composer, dies at 77
Feb 14	Charles Cuvillier, Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Feb 15	S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
Feb 15	Henri Letondal, Monkey Business
Feb 15	Peter Martyn, Episode #1.13
Feb 15	Barbara Worth, The Fighting Trooper
Feb 17	Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52
Feb 17	Julius Hälsig, Kärlek och journalistik
Feb 17	Fernanda Negri Pouget, The Last Days of Pompeii
Feb 17	George Hoey, Arizona
Feb 18	Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
Feb 18	Max Barwyn, The Chocolate Soldier
Feb 19	Arthur Clayton, White Heat
Feb 23	Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
Feb 23	Harold McGee, The Man Who Had Influence
Feb 23	William P. Burt, Danger Lights
Feb 23	Fitch Fulton, Citizen Kane
Feb 23	Paul Claudel, Camille Claudel 1915
Feb 24	Julie Herne, The Snow Bride
Feb 24	Alfred Grasso, The Miracle Man
Feb 24	Alfed Grasso, For Those We Love
Feb 25	Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
Feb 25	Chris Beute, Indestructible Man
Feb 25	Lynn Starling, The Cat and the Canary
Feb 27	Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
Feb 27	Ethel Levey, High Stakes
Feb 27	Trixie Friganza, Free and Easy
Feb 27	Tom Howard, The African Dodger
Mar 1	Claude Payton, The Desert's Crucible
Mar 2	Ernst Rotmund, Die Königin von Argusana, 1. Teil - Zwischen Flammen und Fluten
Mar 3	C.F. Wilhelm, 1925 Studio Tour
Mar 3	Rose Plumer, Bullets and Saddles
Mar 3	Mary Jerrold, The Queen of Spades
Mar 4	Lew White, The Crystal Egg
Mar 4	Louis Bouwmeester, De toverspiegel
Mar 5	Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
Mar 5	William C. de Mille, Captain Fury
Mar 5	Jimmy Godden, The Wife's Family
Mar 6	George Sky Eagle, Devil's Doorway
Mar 6	Anna Larssen Bjørner, Fru Anna Larssen i sit paaklædningsværelse
Mar 7	Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66
Mar 8	Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
Mar 8	Armin von Harder, The Sacred Tiger of Agra
Mar 9	Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
Mar 9	Miroslava, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Mar 10	Johannes Brandt, She, or Nobody
Mar 10	Arno Ebert, Flying Classroom
Mar 10	Percy Ikerd, High Noon
Mar 11	Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
Mar 11	Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
Mar 11	Alexander Fleming,
Mar 11	Olaf Hytten, The Good Earth
Mar 12	Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
Mar 12	Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
Mar 12	Charlie Parker, Se7en
Mar 12	Theodor Plievier, Stalingrad
Mar 13	Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
Mar 13	Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
Mar 14	Sergey Dneprov, Vesenniy potok
Mar 15	William Snyder, Scarface
Mar 15	Dorothy Vaughan, The Bishop's Wife
Mar 16	Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
Mar 16	Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
Mar 16	Leopold Zbucki, Dwie brygady
Mar 17	Naum Rogozhin, Alexander Nevsky
Mar 19	Ferruccio Biancini, L'isola del sogno
Mar 19	Jack Rollens, Day-Dreams
Mar 20	Louis Baum, June Bride
Mar 21	Muriel Aked, dies at 67
Mar 21	Aristide Baghetti, Empty Eyes
Mar 21	Pierre Darteuil, La meilleure bobonne
Mar 21	Muriel Aked, Rome Express
Mar 22	Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
Mar 22	Unto Seppänen, Juhla meren rannalla
Mar 22	Maurice Schutz, The Passion of Joan of Arc
Mar 22	Lillian DeBorba, Sons of the Desert
Mar 23	Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
Mar 23	Arthur Bernardes,
Mar 24	John W. Davis, John W. Davis Campaign Speech
Mar 25	Heinrich Hauser, Die Geierwally
Mar 27	Oskar Dimroth, His Royal Highness
Mar 27	Mrs. Treboal, Design for Living
Mar 29	Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
Mar 29	Nina Campana, The Petrified Forest
Mar 30	Lydia Knott, A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Mar 31	Alec Harford, Face to Face
Apr 1	Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68
Apr 1	Robert R. McCormick, Hawaii Pacific Miracle
Apr 1	Sterrett Ford, St. Louis Woman
Apr 1	Hansi Führer, Lerchenfelder Sonntagskinder
Apr 1	Silvio D'Amico, Partenza ore 7
Apr 3	Robert Sloane, The Case of the Tight Squeeze
Apr 4	Walter Strasen, Die Jungen vom Kranichsee
Apr 4	Otakar Svec, Na pomoc Dohode
Apr 4	Valdemar Lauritzen, Incognito
Apr 5	Irving Gibbs, The I Don't Care Girl
Apr 6	Dosio Koffler, Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Apr 7	Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
Apr 7	Theda Bara, Cleopatra
Apr 8	Al Piantadosi, The Passing
Apr 8	Rudolf Klix, Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse
Apr 8	George 'Beetlepuss' Lewis, Pardon My Accident
Apr 10	Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
Apr 10	Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
Apr 10	Oskar Lindberg, Korset
Apr 10	Pierre Theilhard de Chardin, La messe sur le monde
Apr 11	Leo Cleary, The Pride of St. Louis
Apr 13	Gennaro Curci, I'll Take Romance
Apr 13	José María Linares-Rivas, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Apr 13	Sybille Schmitz, Vampyr
Apr 14	Frank J. Collins, Illegal
Apr 14	Ad Wolgast, The Prince of Broadway
Apr 15	Charles Goldner, The Captain's Paradise
Apr 16	Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
Apr 16	Robert Gill, They Who Dare
Apr 18	Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
Apr 18	Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
Apr 18	Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
Apr 18	Albert Einstein, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy
Apr 19	Jim Corbett, India: Kingdom of the Tiger
Apr 20	Mel Ronson, How's About It
Apr 20	Cândido Botelho, Maridinho de Luxo
Apr 20	Wilhelm Prager, Ways to Strength and Beauty
Apr 21	Philippa Frederiksen, Champagneruset
Apr 23	Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
Apr 23	Frederic Brunn, Secret Service in Darkest Africa
Apr 23	Henry Busse, The English Patient
Apr 23	Basil Gill, High Treason
Apr 24	Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
Apr 24	Hannes Schneider, White Ecstasy
Apr 24	Alfred Polgar, The Burning Secret
Apr 24	W.L. Heywood, Sex
Apr 25	Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
Apr 25	Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73
Apr 25	Constance Collier, Rope
Apr 25	Giorgi Tsagareli, They Wanted Peace
Apr 27	Eva Moore, The Old Dark House
Apr 28	Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
Apr 28	George Morrell, Child Bride
Apr 28	Stanislaw Sielanski, Dorozkarz nr 13
Apr 29	William H. Pine, Reap the Wild Wind
Apr 30	Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Metropolis
May 1	Skelton Knaggs, Terror by Night
May 2	Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
May 2	Lula Vollmer, Spitfire
May 3	Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
May 3	Garoto, Céu azul
May 3	Charles Odds, Captain Kidd
May 4	Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
May 4	Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
May 4	Helena Górska-Brylinska, Pan Tadeusz
May 4	George Enescu, Colonia Ingerilor
May 4	Edward Martindel, Lady Windermere's Fan
May 4	Sasa Rasilov, I'll Be Right Over
May 4	Robert Kent, The Country Girl
May 5	Jessie Arnold, The Light of Love
May 6	May Collins, All's Fair in Love
May 6	Hüseyin Sadettin Arel, Istanbul sokaklarinda
May 7	Holger Gabrielsen, Mani
May 7	Oscar Loraine, Rhapsody in Blue
May 7	Alberto Collo, Guglielmo Oberdan, il martire di Trieste
May 8	Geraldo Pereira, The Besieged House
May 8	Kazimierz Wajda, Wlóczegi
May 8	William Pagan, Daredevils of the Red Circle
May 9	Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
May 9	M. Coates Webster, I Surrender Dear
May 9	Lauritz Olsen, In the Hands of Impostors
May 10	Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer, dies of a heart attack at 73
May 10	John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
May 10	Tommy Burns, World's Heavyweight Championship Between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson
May 11	G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
May 11	Emil Kosa, The Day the Earth Stood Still
May 11	Francis Pierlot, The Prisoner of Zenda
May 11	Étienne Arnaud, Saved from the Titanic
May 12	John Cope, Rear Window
May 12	Mary Bertrand, Tahiti Honey
May 14	Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44
May 14	Jack Virgil, Bells of Rosarita
May 14	Betty Ann Davies, The Passionate Friends
May 14	Kate Cutler, Pygmalion
May 14	Anwar Wagdi, The Flirtation of Girls
May 15	Daniel Birt, The Big Deadly Game
May 16	James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
May 16	Sam Patterson, God's Step Children
May 16	James Agee, The African Queen
May 16	Manuel Ayulo, Roar of the Crowd
May 16	Hilda Spong, Divorced
May 17	Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
May 17	Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75
May 17	Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
May 17	Francesco Balilla Pratella, Terra madre
May 18	Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
May 18	Shalva Gambashidze, Chirveuli mezoblebi
May 18	Daniel J. Gray, The Red Mill
May 18	Mary McLeod Bethune,
May 19	Barbara Ray, Millions in the Air
May 19	Tadeusz Sygietynski, Zona dla Australijczyka
May 19	Concha Espina, The Bastard
May 20	Anna Svierkier, Day of Wrath
May 20	Aleksey Vatulya, Conquest of Peter the Great
May 22	Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Bird of Paradise
May 22	Fred Allen, T-Men
May 23	Charles Groves, The Winslow Boy
May 23	Maurice Lagrenée, La treizième enquête de Grey
May 24	Ward Hamilton, South of St. Louis
May 25	Sári Fedák, Mámi
May 25	Wardell Gray, Deconstructing Harry
May 27	Charles Stevens, Bluebeard
May 27	Eva Sawyer, Her Lesson
May 27	Sol Michaels, Charlie Chan at the Opera
May 29	Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
May 29	Karel Tresnák, Babicka
May 30	Hans Robert Bortfeld, The Axe of Wandsbek
May 30	Dan Duffy, The Last of the Troubadours
May 31	"Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
May 31	Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95
May 31	Tilley Christiansen, The Marconi Operator
Jun 1	F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
Jun 1	Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
Jun 2	Adi Lödel, Lockende Gefahr
Jun 2	Earl Lee, Five
Jun 2	Marcel Wittrisch, Die Stimme der Liebe
Jun 3	Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
Jun 3	Barbara Graham, I Want to Live!
Jun 3	Lois Ingraham, The Arm of Vengeance
Jun 3	Gertrude H. Anderson, What Love Can Do
Jun 4	Fred Groves, Rogues of the Turf
Jun 5	Charles B.V. Miller, Colorado Territory
Jun 5	Robert E. Burns, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Jun 6	Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
Jun 6	Hulda Lauritzen, Den grimme Ælling
Jun 6	Fred Myton, The Gambling Terror
Jun 6	Fritz Odemar, M
Jun 6	Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, Number 17
Jun 7	Géza Boross, Sportszerelem
Jun 8	Mussina Wachtel, Are We Civilized?
Jun 8	Hal Horne, The Strongest
Jun 11	Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
Jun 11	Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
Jun 11	Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75
Jun 11	Leslie Swabacker, Batman
Jun 11	Walter Hampden, Sabrina
Jun 11	Robert Wilcox, Little Tough Guy
Jun 13	Dan Dougherty, The Great Gatsby
Jun 15	Dante, The Golden Coach
Jun 16	Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
Jun 16	Lora Baxter, Before Morning
Jun 17	John Golden, Chaplin
Jun 17	Gusta Chrispijn-Mulder, Amsterdam bij nacht
Jun 18	Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
Jun 18	Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
Jun 18	Yoshio Toyoshima, Mikaheri no tô
Jun 18	Aleksander Zelwerowicz, Tajemnica pokoju nr 100
Jun 18	Hugo Kirchhoffer, Rhapsody in Blue
Jun 19	Adrienne Monnier,
Jun 20	Robert A. McGowan, The Little Rascals
Jun 22	Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
Jun 22	Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
Jun 22	Wyllis Cooper, Son of Frankenstein
Jun 23	Aurania Rouverol, Dance, Fools, Dance
Jun 24	Charles Adler, Thrill of a Lifetime
Jun 26	Borrah Minevitch, One in a Million
Jun 27	Martin A. Hansen, The Liar
Jun 27	Harry Agganis,
Jun 28	John Spikes, Road to Perdition
Jun 29	Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73
Jun 29	Max Pechstein, Acht Maler und ein Modell
Jun 29	James Craven, King of the Rocket Men
Jun 29	Ernst Legal, Man of Straw
Jun 30	Piero Ballerini, La fanciulla dell'altra riva
Jul 1	Isabel Bonner, The Shrike
Jul 1	Machaquito, Bullfight
Jul 1	Eddie Borden, A Chump at Oxford
Jul 1	Wilson Benge, Bulldog Drummond
Jul 2	Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
Jul 2	Fritz Freisler, The Mandarin
Jul 2	Göta Ljungberg, Old Ironsides
Jul 3	Joan Jasmyn, Times Square Playboy
Jul 3	Walther Andreasen, Ditte, Child of Man
Jul 5	Gianni Cavalieri, Miseria e nobiltà
Jul 6	Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
Jul 7	Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
Jul 7	Franco Casavola, Anni difficili
Jul 8	Paul McAllister, The Scales of Justice
Jul 8	Captain DeZita, Glen or Glenda
Jul 9	Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
Jul 9	Adolfo de la Huerta, Llegada a la ciudad de México del señor Adolfo de la Huerta
Jul 10	Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies
Jul 12	Vittorio Parisi, Naples That Never Dies
Jul 12	Wincenty Loskot, Pietro wyzej
Jul 13	Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor, dies at 59
Jul 13	Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
Jul 13	Stanley Price, Dopey Dicks
Jul 13	Ruth Ellis, Bikini Baby
Jul 14	Frances McCardell, Music Is Magic
Jul 16	Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
Jul 16	Jessie McAllister, A Curable Disease
Jul 17	Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
Jul 17	Henry Carlsen, Den mandlige husassistent
Jul 18	Fred Burns, Doctor Jim
Jul 18	Weldon Kees, The Joy of Life
Jul 18	Friedrich Freksa, Sumurun
Jul 18	Hans Theyer, An Orphan Boy of Vienna
Jul 19	Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
Jul 19	Helena Roj-Rytardowa, Dzien wielkiej przygody
Jul 20	Joaquín Pardavé, Dos pesos dejada
Jul 20	Lily Cahill, The Failure
Jul 21	Myra Keaton, Love Nest on Wheels
Jul 22	Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
Jul 22	Hermann Krome, The Black Cat
Jul 22	Ben Piazza, Operator 13
Jul 22	Jack McEvoy, The House on 92nd Street
Jul 23	Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
Jul 23	Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
Jul 23	Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
Jul 23	Vernon Steele, Captain Blood
Jul 23	Betty van Es, Bet trekt de 100.000
Jul 23	Cordell Hull, The Pacific Boils Over
Jul 24	Helena Phillips Evans, Nancy Drew: Detective
Jul 24	Harry Hayden, Till the Clouds Roll By
Jul 24	Sandro Salvini, Terra madre
Jul 25	Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
Jul 25	Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
Jul 25	Isaak Dunayevsky, Moscow Laughs
Jul 25	Tapio Ilomäki, Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Jul 25	Ilmari Hannikainen, Viimeinen kesä
Jul 26	Charles F. Royal, Guns in the Dark
Jul 26	Ben Pitti, Billy the Kid
Jul 27	Edward H. Robins, It Happened in Paris
Jul 27	Benny Petti, In Old California
Jul 27	Manuel Bolshintsov, Great Citizen
Jul 28	Herbert Norsch, Under California Stars
Jul 30	Willy Pogany, Dames
Jul 31	Robert Francis, The Caine Mutiny
Aug 1	Ormond Ruthven, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Aug 1	Charles Shaw, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Aug 2	Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies
Aug 2	Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75
Aug 2	Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
Aug 2	Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways...
Aug 5	Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
Aug 5	Suzan (Susan) Ball, American actress, of cancer aged 21
Aug 5	Géza Kardos, A Nap lovagja
Aug 5	Carmen Miranda, Radio Days
Aug 5	Suzan Ball, Chief Crazy Horse
Aug 6	Janet Beecher, The Lady Eve
Aug 8	Ralph Angel, The Real Glory
Aug 8	Madge Elliott, Pontius Pilate
Aug 8	Grace Hartman, The Hartmans
Aug 9	Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57
Aug 9	Geoffrey Wardwell, Crimes at the Dark House
Aug 9	George Landy, Sidewalks of New York
Aug 10	Jane Murfin, The Women
Aug 11	Andrew B. Sterling, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Aug 11	Johnny Greer, The Merry Widow
Aug 11	Hugh Pryse, Three Cases of Murder
Aug 12	Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80
Aug 12	James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
Aug 12	Alfred Gerasch, Durch die Quartiere des Elends und Verbrechens
Aug 12	Lynne Carver, A Christmas Carol
Aug 12	Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Aug 13	John Klenner, Raging Bull
Aug 13	William R. Schmidt, All Quiet on the Western Front
Aug 14	Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian, dies at 66
Aug 14	Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
Aug 14	Merritt A. Edson, With the Marines at Tarawa
Aug 14	Lemuel Ayers, Ziegfeld Follies
Aug 15	Nascimento Fernandes, Os Crimes de Diogo Alves
Aug 17	Fernand Léger, Ballet mécanique
Aug 18	Guy Bevier, Tarzan the Tiger
Aug 19	Erich Grave, Der Kaiser von Kalifornien
Aug 19	Ord Hamilton, Death at a Broadcast
Aug 22	Olin Downes, First Opera Film Festival
Aug 22	Ingrid Sandahl, Fairy of Solbakken
Aug 22	Erich Kober, Die Wasserteufel von Hieflau
Aug 23	Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
Aug 23	Lew Strohm, The Bad Man of Brimstone
Aug 23	Reginald Tate, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Aug 23	Hulda Keskinen, Kun isä tahtoo...
Aug 24	Harold Lewis, The Express
Aug 24	Frank Conlan, The Devil and Daniel Webster
Aug 25	Hubert Vincent-Bréchignac, The Scarlet Bazaar
Aug 25	Heinrich Spoerl, The Punch Bowl
Aug 26	Bob Miller, Utah
Aug 26	James McMahon, House of Wax
Aug 27	Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
Aug 28	Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
Aug 28	Emmett Till,
Aug 28	Gertrude Le Brandt, Through the Toils
Sep 1	Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
Sep 1	Philip Loeb, A Double Life
Sep 1	Willy Kleinoschegg, Corinna Schmidt
Sep 2	Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60
Sep 2	Walter Weems, Hearts in Dixie
Sep 2	Konstanty Meglicki, Straszna noc
Sep 2	Broderick O'Farrell, Beau Hunks
Sep 2	Rudolf Kattnigg, Der Meineidbauer
Sep 3	Dick Succop, Sunnyside Up
Sep 3	Henri Eerens, Rechter Thomas
Sep 5	Festus Phillips, The King of Kings
Sep 5	Nellie Lane, Circus Days
Sep 6	Franklyn Warner, Isle of Destiny
Sep 7	Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
Sep 7	Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
Sep 7	Horace Braham, Highlowbrow
Sep 7	Willi Achsel, Der Pflanzendoktor
Sep 7	Aline Bernstein, She
Sep 8	John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
Sep 8	Erich Pabst, Destiny
Sep 8	Hans Effenberger, Das Haus Molitor
Sep 8	Stuart Engstrand, Beyond the Forest
Sep 9	Johnnie Schofield, In Which We Serve
Sep 10	Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
Sep 11	Bernard Gorcey, The Great Dictator
Sep 12	Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86
Sep 13	William B. Mack, Backbone
Sep 14	F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
Sep 14	Aage Garde, Den sidste Hurdle
Sep 15	Edgar Klitzsch, Das goldene Kalb
Sep 16	Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
Sep 17	Leopold von Ledebur, Carmen
Sep 18	Martin Walker, Sanders of the River
Sep 19	John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
Sep 19	Gimaletdin Mingazhev, Salavat Yulayev
Sep 20	Robert Riskin, Mr. Deeds
Sep 20	Noel M. Smith, Clash of the Wolves
Sep 20	Bernard Suss, Mountain Rhythm
Sep 21	George Barton, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Sep 21	Al Orenbach, D.O.A.
Sep 22	Emily Goldsmith,
Sep 23	Konstantin Hierl, Triumph of the Will
Sep 23	Edith Wynne Matthison, National Red Cross Pageant
Sep 23	John Tait, The Story of the Kelly Gang
Sep 24	Ib Schønberg, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
Sep 24	Peter Peterz, Melodie des Schicksals
Sep 25	Émile Fabre, La Rabouilleuse
Sep 25	Armand Lurville, The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sep 25	Post Park, The El Paso Kid
Sep 26	Margaret Prescott Montague, Linda
Sep 27	Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
Sep 27	Charles L. Tedford, The Declaration of Independence
Sep 28	Arthur Donaldson, dies
Sep 28	Arthur Donaldson, Babbling Tongues
Sep 30	James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24
Sep 30	Michael Chekhov, actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
Sep 30	Michael Chekhov, Spellbound
Sep 30	John Junior, Peter, the Hermit
Sep 30	Pentti Haanpää, Isännät ja isäntien varjot
Sep 30	James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause
Oct 1	Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
Oct 1	Wally Dean, Pride of the Legion
Oct 1	Aleksei Dikij, Admiral Nakhimov
Oct 1	Charles Christie, 813
Oct 2	O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies
Oct 2	O.B. Clarence, Great Expectations
Oct 2	Clara Schwartz, Alle går rundt og forelsker sig
Oct 4	Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
Oct 4	Theo Shall, Anna Christie
Oct 5	Edith M. Ryan, The Best Man
Oct 6	José Soveral, O Fado
Oct 7	Alonzo Nixon, The Lure of a Woman
Oct 7	George Blake, Film Novelty Series: Aren't We All
Oct 9	Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65
Oct 9	Barton Hepburn, Hi Diddle Diddle
Oct 9	Paul Stanton, Across the Pacific
Oct 9	Alice Joyce, Dancing Mothers
Oct 12	Arthur Hammerstein, Tough Guys
Oct 12	Bernarr Macfadden, Building Up the Health of a Nation #5
Oct 13	Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
Oct 13	Manuel Ávila Camacho, Modern Mexico City
Oct 13	Tom Burton, The Ghost Ship
Oct 14	Harry Parr Davies, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Oct 15	Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41
Oct 15	Robert Valberg, Oberst Redl
Oct 15	Fumio Hayasaka, Seven Samurai
Oct 16	Cleves Kinkead, Private Number
Oct 17	James Benson Nablo, A Bullet for Joey
Oct 17	Aage Lorentzen, En Opfinders Skæbne
Oct 18	Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
Oct 18	Frank Tickle, Anna Karenina
Oct 18	John Van Wormer, How to Marry a Millionaire
Oct 19	John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground), dies at 41
Oct 19	William Mollison, Magyar Melody
Oct 19	John Hodiak, Battleground
Oct 19	Alfred Menhardt, Dein Herz ist meine Heimat
Oct 20	Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51
Oct 20	Frank Darien, The Grapes of Wrath
Oct 21	Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
Oct 21	Karl Puth, The Making of a King
Oct 22	Rita Carewe, Prince Gabby
Oct 24	Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British Anthropologist (Structural Functionalism and studies of Andaman Islanders and Australian Aborigines), dies at 74
Oct 24	Konstantin Eggert, The Bear's Wedding
Oct 25	Aleksandre Tsutsunava, Qristine
Oct 25	George Coudert, A Woman in Grey
Oct 25	Oda Rostrup, The Tiger Countess
Oct 25	Axel Bruun, A Trip to Mars
Oct 26	Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
Oct 26	Anthony Ross, The Country Girl
Oct 26	Ora Carew, Dollars and Sense
Oct 26	Sulo Räikkönen, Seikkailu jalkamatkalla
Oct 27	Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
Oct 27	Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
Oct 27	Milton Herbert Gropper, No Man of Her Own
Oct 27	Catherine Countiss, A Modern Magdalen
Oct 27	Vladimir Deshevov, Post
Oct 28	Dick Finch, Somebody Loves Me
Oct 29	Maria Mell, Thank You, Madame
Oct 31	Julia Hoyt, The Wonderful Thing
Oct 31	William Woodward,
Nov 1	W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
Nov 1	Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
Nov 1	Dale Carnegie, Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Nov 1	W.H. van Eemlandt, Rififi in Amsterdam
Nov 1	Pat C. Flick, Stage Struck
Nov 3	Cyril Chadwick, The Iron Horse
Nov 3	Wolfgang Goetz, Der Herzog von Reichstadt
Nov 4	Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
Nov 4	Cy Young, pitcher and MLB all-time wins leader, dies at 88
Nov 4	Cy Young, Episode dated 13 April 1955
Nov 4	Archer MacDonald, Anything Goes
Nov 4	August Vollmer, Officer '444'
Nov 4	Herman Paley, Wabash Avenue
Nov 5	Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
Nov 5	Ruth Weston, The Public Defender
Nov 5	Maurice Utrillo, If Paris Were Told to Us
Nov 5	Vincent Renno, The Great Caruso
Nov 6	Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
Nov 6	Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
Nov 6	Anastasiya Levitskaya, Cossacks Beyond the Danube
Nov 6	Art Miles, The Spoilers
Nov 6	Doris Malloy, Gambling Lady
Nov 8	Donatien, Mon curé chez les riches
Nov 9	Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
Nov 9	Robert Cory, Lost Horizon
Nov 9	Tom Powers, Double Indemnity
Nov 9	Marjorie Wood, Pride and Prejudice
Nov 11	John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
Nov 11	Giovanni Casaleggio, Le due orfanelle di Torino
Nov 11	Charles Weinberg, The Leatherneck
Nov 11	Ned Marin, How to Handle a Boss
Nov 11	Jerry Ross, Goodfellas
Nov 12	Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
Nov 12	Grahame Covert, Desperate
Nov 12	Robert Dudley, The Palm Beach Story
Nov 14	Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
Nov 15	Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
Nov 15	Donald McClelland, A Child Is Crying
Nov 15	Chandler Sprague, Always
Nov 15	Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street
Nov 16	Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88
Nov 17	James Price Johnson, composer, dies at 64
Nov 17	Eduardo de Castro, Forbidden Women
Nov 17	Helmuth Weidling, The Fall of Berlin
Nov 17	James P. Johnson, The Great Gatsby
Nov 18	Richard Bransten, Margie
Nov 18	Walter Altenkirch, Der Froschkönig
Nov 19	Marquis James, Portrait of a President
Nov 19	John Grant, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Nov 19	Mrs. Herbert Brenon, The Fallin' Out
Nov 20	Torsten Leistén, Venusta etsimässä eli erään nuoren miehen ihmeelliset seikkailut
Nov 20	Topo Leistelä, Mannerheim II
Nov 20	Gustave Gallet, Un de la lune
Nov 21	Vyacheslav Novikov, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Nov 22	Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91
Nov 22	Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60
Nov 22	Shemp Howard, Brideless Groom
Nov 22	Édouard Delmont, Port of Shadows
Nov 24	Simon Bucharoff, The Big Sleep
Nov 25	Erik Baumann, En flicka för mej
Nov 26	Edwin V. Westrate, Shoot to Kill
Nov 27	Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies of a heart attack at 63
Nov 27	Luis de Freitas Branco, composer, dies at 65
Nov 27	William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
Nov 27	Luís de Freitas Branco, Mysteries of Lisbon
Nov 27	William Nigh, Mr. Wong, Detective
Nov 27	Arthur Honegger, Pygmalion
Nov 27	Dave Morris, The Shame of Mary Boyle
Nov 29	Hans Hedtoft, Vilhelm Buhl, fhv. statsminister
Nov 29	Arthur Cunningham, Beaten at the Bath
Nov 30	Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
Nov 30	Al Goodhart, Singin' in the Rain
Nov 30	Josip Slavenski, A zivot jde dál
Dec 1	Milton Uhl, What'll We Do with Uncle?
Dec 1	Chief Thundercloud, King of the Stallions
Dec 3	Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
Dec 3	Lucille Van Slyke, The Stolen Kiss
Dec 4	Charles McNaughton, Treasure Island
Dec 4	Vladimir Osvetsimsky, Heroes of the Sea
Dec 4	Glenn L. Martin, A Girl of Yesterday
Dec 5	Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
Dec 5	Kay Sherris, Broadway Bill
Dec 5	Paul Harvey, Spellbound
Dec 5	James V. Murray, I Cover Chinatown
Dec 5	James Murray, Stark Love
Dec 6	Honus Wagner, baseball player, dies at 81
Dec 6	Honus Wagner, Spring Fever
Dec 6	Charles E. Scoggins, Untamed
Dec 8	Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
Dec 8	George Burton, Bill and Coo
Dec 9	Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
Dec 9	Harry Merland, Wake Island
Dec 11	Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
Dec 11	Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
Dec 11	Elspeth Dudgeon, The Old Dark House
Dec 13	Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
Dec 13	Valeriano León, El piyayo
Dec 15	Dorothy Bernard, The Girl and Her Trust
Dec 16	Aleksandr Levada, Ukrainian Rhapsody
Dec 16	Grace Perkins, Night Nurse
Dec 16	Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Dec 16	Dorothy Caruso, The Great Caruso
Dec 18	Marguerite Deval, Tovaritch
Dec 18	James Conaty, All About Eve
Dec 18	Albert Ståhl, Supper for Two
Dec 19	Dmitriy Orlov, Alexander Nevsky
Dec 19	Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, La foule hurle
Dec 20	Gretchen Lederer, The Silent Lady
Dec 20	Jerome Hester, Words and Music
Dec 20	Ralph E. Dyar, A Voice in the Dark
Dec 21	Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
Dec 21	Edward Fertner, Zemsta
Dec 21	Milan Marjanovic, Martin u nebo, Martin iz neba
Dec 21	Gladys Ripley, The Great Mr. Handel
Dec 21	Otis Garth, Mister Scoutmaster
Dec 22	Len Braund, cricketer (23 Tests for England 987 runs 47 wkts), dies
Dec 22	Vivian Meik, The Doll of Death
Dec 22	Rose Lichtenstein, Der Passagier in der Zwangsjacke
Dec 22	Wastl Witt, Der weißblaue Löwe
Dec 22	Mindret Lord, The Virgin Queen
Dec 24	Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
Dec 24	Nana Bryant, Harvey
Dec 25	Abe Reynolds, Love at First Sight
Dec 26	Hans Mierendorff, Die Teufelskirche
Dec 26	Howard Gaye, The Birth of a Nation
Dec 27	Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)
Dec 27	Pauline Sabin,
Dec 27	Ralph M. Like, Chinatown After Dark
Dec 29	Christy Walsh, Carry On
Dec 30	Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
Dec 30	Vemuri Gaggaiah, Garuda Garvabhangam
Dec 31	Rex Hammel, Angel of Crooked Street

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