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Notable Deaths - 1973

1973John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78

1973Frank Costello, American gangster, dies of a heart attack at 82

1973David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87

1973Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer, dies at 77

1973John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbit), dies of an ulcer at 81

1973Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32

1973Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74

1973Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban Dictator (1940-58), dies at 72

1973Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91

1973Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69

1973Arna Bontemps, American poet (Harlem Renaissance), dies of heart attack at 72 in Nashville

1973Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64

1973Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76

1973Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43) and pacifist, dies at 92

1973 Deaths

Date	Event
Jan 5	Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79
Jan 11	Isabel Randolph, actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83
Jan 11	Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday
Jan 15	Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
Jan 15	Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
Jan 15	Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
Jan 16	Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65
Jan 17	Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
Jan 19	Max Adrian, Irish actor (Boy Friend), dies of a heart attack at 69
Jan 20	Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered 51
Jan 20	Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
Jan 20	Julio Buchs, Encrucijada para una monja
Jan 22	Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
Jan 23	Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
Jan 23	Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)

Jan 23	Kid Ory, JFK
Jan 24	Alan Lisette, cricketer (took 3 wickets in 2 Tests for NZ 1956), dies
Jan 24	J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), dies at 73
Jan 24	Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
Jan 26	Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), dies at 79
Jan 26	Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71
Jan 26	Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
Jan 27	Edward Kotal, Easy Living
Jan 28	John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday
Jan 29	Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67
Jan 29	Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89
Jan 30	Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54
Jan 31	Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
Feb 2	Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70
Feb 2	Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
Feb 3	Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67
Feb 5	George Morrison, dies at 82
Feb 5	L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
Feb 6	Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74
Feb 8	Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies
Feb 9	Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
Feb 9	Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
Feb 9	Alma Olander Dam Willumsen, Erik Ejegods pilgrimsfærd
Feb 10	Bud Hulburd, The Wild Bunch
Feb 11	Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
Feb 11	Horace L. Hulburd, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Feb 12	Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67
Feb 13	Ralph Freed, The Fisher King
Feb 15	Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55
Feb 15	Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
Feb 16	Pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies
Feb 18	Frank Costello, American gangster, dies of a heart attack at 82
Feb 20	Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39
Feb 20	Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80
Feb 20	Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at 60
Feb 22	Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73
Feb 22	Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
Feb 22	Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
Feb 22	Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
Feb 22	Winthrop Rockefeller, Episode #5.4
Feb 23	Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
Feb 24	Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
Feb 26	Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
Feb 27	Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72
Feb 28	Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
Feb 28	Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79
Mar 2	Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
Mar 4	Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
Mar 5	Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45
Mar 5	Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
Mar 5	Paul Kletzki, L'amour de la vie - Artur Rubinstein
Mar 5	James Redd, Macbeth
Mar 6	Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
Mar 6	Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at 80
Mar 6	Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67
Mar 7	Andre de Meulemeester, Belgium WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78
Mar 8	Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
Mar 8	Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead) dies at 27
Mar 10	Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
Mar 10	Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
Mar 12	Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
Mar 12	Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
Mar 12	Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
Mar 13	Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
Mar 14	Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
Mar 14	Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
Mar 15	Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
Mar 16	Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
Mar 16	M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
Mar 17	Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
Mar 18	Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82
Mar 21	Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
Mar 23	Ken Maynard, actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77
Mar 25	Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
Mar 26	George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
Mar 26	Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
Mar 26	Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
Mar 26	Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
Mar 26	Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
Mar 27	Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
Mar 28	Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
Mar 31	Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68
Apr 1	Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
Apr 2	Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor
Apr 5	John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
Apr 7	Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
Apr 8	Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91
Apr 11	Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
Apr 13	Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
Apr 13	Balraj Sahni, Do Bigha Zamin
Apr 14	Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
Apr 14	Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA
Apr 20	Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82
Apr 21	Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
Apr 21	Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
Apr 23	Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
Apr 26	Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
Apr 27	Jim Sims, cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies
Apr 27	Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72
Apr 27	Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
Apr 28	Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62
Apr 28	Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
Apr 28	Pat Henning, On the Waterfront
Apr 29	Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
Apr 30	Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at 75
Apr 30	Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
May 2	Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
May 2	Hal Brazeale, Law of the Timber
May 4	Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
May 6	Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
May 8	Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player (Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Baltimore Orioles), dies aged 100
May 8	Maxine Doyle, SOS Coast Guard
May 9	Owen Brannigan, The Bartered Bride
May 10	Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
May 10	Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51
May 11	Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies
May 11	Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
May 12	Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
May 12	Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
May 14	Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
May 15	Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
May 16	Ronald Jeans, Young Wives' Tale
May 17	Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91
May 18	Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43) and pacifist, dies at 92
May 18	Leonard Fields, The Scarlet Letter
May 18	Jack Meskill, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
May 20	Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
May 20	Salomon Hedberg, Barnen från Frostmofjället
May 21	Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
May 21	George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
May 21	Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
May 21	Mato Grkovic, Grjesnice
May 21	Mato Grkovic, Na taraci
May 23	Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57
May 26	Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
May 28	Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73
May 28	Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at 81
May 29	Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies
May 29	P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
May 30	Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
May 31	Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89
Jun 1	Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
Jun 1	Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57
Jun 1	Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76
Jun 1	Walter Greaza, The Edge of Night
Jun 3	Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
Jun 4	Arna Bontemps, American poet (Harlem Renaissance), dies of heart attack at 72 in Nashville
Jun 4	Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
Jun 5	Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
Jun 7	Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
Jun 7	Charles Hannawalt, Premature Burial
Jun 7	Bill Borzage, Way Down East
Jun 8	Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76
Jun 9	Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
Jun 9	Carlo D'Angelo, The Great Silence
Jun 9	Frank Kettering, National Barn Dance
Jun 10	William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
Jun 12	Ted Cott, Jazz Party
Jun 13	Alvin Derold Etler, composer, dies at 60
Jun 13	Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 82
Jun 13	Francesco Chiesa, Innocenza
Jun 14	Rikie Suzuki, Hiroba no kodoku
Jun 16	Ferdinand Zegel, Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
Jun 17	Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
Jun 18	Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71
Jun 18	Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55
Jun 18	Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
Jun 19	Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who), dies at 55
Jun 21	Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
Jun 22	Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77
Jun 23	Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
Jun 24	Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
Jun 26	Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
Jun 26	Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82
Jun 27	Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
Jun 27	Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
Jun 29	Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
Jun 30	Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
Jun 30	Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
Jul 1	Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76
Jul 2	Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56
Jul 2	George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73
Jul 2	Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
Jul 2	Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
Jul 2	George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
Jul 2	Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
Jul 3	Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
Jul 4	Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
Jul 5	Harry Oliver, 7th Heaven
Jul 5	Erich Rahn, Jiu-Jitsu - Die unsichtbare Waffe
Jul 6	Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80
Jul 6	Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
Jul 6	Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
Jul 7	Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
Jul 7	Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
Jul 8	Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies
Jul 11	Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
Jul 11	Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
Jul 11	Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63
Jul 12	Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
Jul 13	Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67
Jul 13	Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80
Jul 13	Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72
Jul 14	Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
Jul 16	Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
Jul 17	Adolfo Girón, Over the Waves
Jul 18	Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
Jul 19	Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
Jul 19	Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
Jul 20	Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
Jul 20	Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
Jul 21	Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69
Jul 23	Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
Jul 23	Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
Jul 24	Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
Jul 25	Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of natural causes at 91
Jul 26	Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden), dies
Jul 28	Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80
Jul 29	Eileen Percy, silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
Jul 29	Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
Jul 29	Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
Jul 30	Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
Jul 30	Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65
Jul 30	Harry Jackson, The Four of Us Are Dying
Aug 1	Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
Aug 1	Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80
Aug 2	Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
Aug 3	Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
Aug 3	Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
Aug 3	Ilias Venezis, 1922
Aug 4	Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
Aug 4	Sam Katzman, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Aug 6	Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban Dictator (1940-58), dies at 72
Aug 7	Jack Gregory, cricketer (scorer of fastest ton Australia 1921), dies
Aug 8	Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
Aug 9	Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88
Aug 9	Dean Corll, shot, he raped & killed 26 boys
Aug 10	Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies at 57
Aug 11	Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46
Aug 11	John Selgrath, West Point of the Air
Aug 11	Carl Wester, The Hurricane Express
Aug 11	Jay Rescher, The Devil's Daughter
Aug 12	John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935), dies
Aug 12	Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
Aug 12	Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74
Aug 13	Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
Aug 15	Hanns Ernst Jäger, Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg
Aug 16	Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
Aug 16	Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54
Aug 17	Conrad Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74
Aug 17	Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32
Aug 17	Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
Aug 17	Arthur W. Radford, This Is Korea!
Aug 19	Dennis Wyndham, Oh, Mr. Porter!
Aug 22	Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77
Aug 24	Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
Aug 24	Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79
Aug 27	Meri Welles, The Pink Panther
Aug 29	Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38
Aug 29	Stringer Davis, actress (Mouse on the Moon, Miranda), dies at about 77
Aug 31	John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78
Aug 31	Raymond Keane, dies at 66
Aug 31	Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36), dies
Sep 2	John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbit), dies of an ulcer at 81
Sep 2	Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
Sep 3	Homer Van Pelt, Jolson Sings Again
Sep 5	Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
Sep 6	William H Harris, composer, dies at 90
Sep 7	Hans Lorbeer, writer, dies at 72
Sep 9	Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
Sep 11	Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65
Sep 11	Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
Sep 12	Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77
Sep 12	Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
Sep 12	Martin Wolfson, The Edge of Night
Sep 13	Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60
Sep 15	Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
Sep 15	Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
Sep 16	Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
Sep 16	Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist, dies at 74
Sep 17	Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63
Sep 18	Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
Sep 19	Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75
Sep 19	Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26
Sep 20	Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
Sep 20	Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
Sep 20	Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
Sep 21	Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39
Sep 21	William CF Plomer, S Afr libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69
Sep 23	A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89
Sep 23	Manuel Borguno, composer, dies at 87
Sep 23	Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69
Sep 26	Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81
Sep 28	Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71
Sep 28	Norma Crane, actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies of cancer at 44
Sep 28	Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
Sep 29	W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies
Sep 30	Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
Oct 1	Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74
Oct 2	Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76
Oct 2	Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 84
Oct 5	Giuseppe Becce, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Oct 6	Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
Oct 6	Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58
Oct 6	Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58
Oct 8	Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
Oct 10	Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
Oct 14	Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
Oct 16	Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
Oct 16	Gene Krupa, Raging Bull
Oct 17	Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47
Oct 18	Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
Oct 18	Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
Oct 18	Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60
Oct 18	Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
Oct 21	Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
Oct 21	Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
Oct 22	Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
Oct 24	Jack Iverson, cricketer (5 Tests 21 wickets S1024 15 23), dies
Oct 25	Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympic-gold 1960, 64), dies at 41
Oct 25	G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies
Oct 27	Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (Mister Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 64
Oct 28	Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
Oct 28	Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
Oct 29	Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83
Oct 30	Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer, dies at 77
Nov 1	Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Music Lovers
Nov 2	Alice Ludwig, Marriage in the Shadows
Nov 3	Arturo De Cordova, actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
Nov 3	Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
Nov 4	Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75
Nov 6	Lea Noemi, Green Fields
Nov 9	Olavi Gunnari, Stolen Death
Nov 10	Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
Nov 11	Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
Nov 11	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 78
Nov 11	Artturi Iivari Virtanen, Salon maatalousnäyttely
Nov 12	Luiz Peixoto, Madame Satã
Nov 13	Bruno Maderna, Italian composer/conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53
Nov 13	Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer, dies at 77
Nov 13	Lila Lee, actress (Blood & Sand), dies of stroke at 68
Nov 16	Alan Watts, writer/popularizer of Zen, dies in Calif
Nov 17	The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
Nov 19	Cyril Allcott, cricketer (6 Tests for NZ, 113 runs & 6 wickets), dies
Nov 20	Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), dies at 48
Nov 21	Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
Nov 23	Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64
Nov 23	Constance Talmadge, US comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75
Nov 23	Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad), dies
Nov 23	Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40
Nov 23	Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83
Nov 24	John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
Nov 25	Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45
Nov 25	Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death in prison
Nov 26	John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
Nov 27	Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
Nov 28	Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
Nov 30	Bruce Yarnell, Los Angeles California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
Dec 1	David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
Dec 3	Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
Dec 3	Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
Dec 4	Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
Dec 6	Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94
Dec 6	Robert A Watson-Watt, Scottish developer of the radar in WWII, dies at 81
Dec 7	Marty Moss, D.O.A.
Dec 10	Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81
Dec 10	Earle Foxe, Upstream
Dec 12	Ranald MacDougall, Cleopatra
Dec 12	Irene Martin, Actor's and Sin
Dec 13	Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
Dec 13	Allie Wrubel, 8 Mile
Dec 14	Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77
Dec 15	Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
Dec 16	Syd Barnes, cricketer (13 Tests for Australia 1938-48), dies
Dec 17	Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
Dec 17	Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74
Dec 18	Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64
Dec 18	Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
Dec 20	Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37
Dec 20	Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
Dec 20	Käthe von Nagy, Ave Maria
Dec 22	Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87
Dec 22	Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72
Dec 23	Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies
Dec 24	Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt is named, dies at 68
Dec 24	Vittoria Crispo, Bread, Love and Dreams
Dec 25	İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
Dec 25	Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
Dec 26	Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74
Dec 26	Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69
Dec 26	William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73
Dec 26	Steven Geray, All About Eve
Dec 30	Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101

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