Celebrity Deaths in the 1940s
617 notable figures died in the 1940s. Listed below in order of date of death.
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Dorothy Mackaye
1899 – 1940 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Isaac Babel
1894 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Otis Harlan
1865 – 1940 · Actors Jan 1 -
Flora Finch
1867 – 1940 · Actresses Jan 4 -
Nezu Kaichiro
1860 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jan 4 -
Edward Frederic “E.F.” Benson
1867 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Gus Elen
1863 – 1940 · Actors Feb 2 -
John Buchan
1875 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Madeleine Talmage Force Astor
1893 – 1940 · Victims of crime and disaster Mar 3 -
Mikhail Bulgakov
1891 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
La Jana
1905 – 1940 · Actresses Mar 13 -
Madeleine Astor
1893 – 1940 · Socialite Mar 27 -
William Henry Abstein
1883 – 1940 · Sports Figures Apr 4 -
Winona Winter
1889 – 1940 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Marie Triepcke Kröyer
1867 – 1940 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Walter James Connolly
1887 – 1940 · Actors May 5 -
Emma Goldman
1869 – 1940 · Social Reformers May 14 -
Arnold Wilson
1884 – 1940 · Politicians May 31 -
Charley Chase
1893 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Edward E. Clive
1883 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Enrique Carlos Mosconi
1877 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Florence Roberts
1861 – 1940 · Actresses Jun 6 -
George Hackathorne
1896 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
James Hall
1900 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Mildred June
1905 – 1940 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Paul Klee
1879 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Jun 6 -
Solomon Harry “Sol” Goldberg
1880 – 1940 Jun 6 -
George Hackathorne
1896 – 1940 Jun 25 -
Carlton Elliott Griffin
1893 – 1940 · Actors Jul 7 -
Fred Burke
1893 – 1940 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 7 -
Granville Bates
1882 – 1940 · Actors Jul 7 -
Louis Berhard Elias Peters
1855 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Silas Reese Burns
1855 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
Leon Trotsky
1879 – 1940 · Politicians Aug 21 -
Edward Bernard “Eddie” Collins
1883 – 1940 · Actors Sep 9 -
Lewis Nixon
1861 – 1940 · Business Magnates Sep 9 -
Sydney Mortimer Laurence
1865 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Walter Benjamin
1892 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
Marguerite Clark
1883 – 1940 · Actresses Sep 25 -
Ballington Booth
1857 – 1940 · Social Reformers Oct 5 -
Berton Churchill
1876 – 1940 · Actors Oct 10 -
Diana Karenne
1888 – 1940 · Actresses Oct 10 -
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Gunnar Asplund
1885 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Gunnar Asplund
1885 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Joe De Stefani
1879 – 1940 · Actors Oct 10 -
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Joe Shelby “Joe” LeFors
1865 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Paul Masson
1859 – 1940 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
Paul Masson
1859 – 1940 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
William Preston Few
1867 – 1940 Oct 10 -
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William Ray Simpson
1862 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Charles Ogle
1865 – 1940 Oct 11 -
Tom Mix
1880 – 1940 · Actors, Country Music Oct 12 -
Neville Chamberlain
1869 – 1940 · Business Magnates, Politicians Nov 9 -
Harry Bernard
1878 – 1940 · Actors Nov 11 -
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Lewis Wickes Hine
1874 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Mabel Adrienne Morrison Bennett
1883 – 1940 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Mabel Adrienne Morrison Bennett
1883 – 1940 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Maud Humphrey Bogart
1865 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Mabel Bennett
1883 – 1940 Nov 20 -
Agnes Ayres
1892 – 1940 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Thomas Alexander Russell
1877 – 1940 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Agnes Ayers
1898 – 1940 · Actresses Dec 25 -
Daniel Frohman
1851 – 1940 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Dec 26 -
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
1857 – 1941 Jan 1 -
Henri Louis Bergson
1859 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Sir John Lavery
1856 – 1941 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
James Joyce
1941 · Authors and Writers Jan 13 -
Donna Damerel Fick
1912 – 1941 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Margaret Mann
1869 – 1941 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941 · Authors and Writers, Scientists and Inventors Feb 21 -
Gutzon Borglum
1867 – 1941 · Artists and Architects Mar 3 -
Julian Eltinge
1881 – 1941 · Actors Mar 3 -
Marguerite Nichols
1895 – 1941 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Sherwood Berton Anderson
1876 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Karl Joseph Schulte
1871 – 1941 · Religious Figures Mar 11 -
Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Mar 28 -
Earle W. Graser
1909 – 1941 · Actors Apr 4 -
Karin Boye
1900 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Apr 4 -
Al Bowlly
1898 – 1941 · Singer Apr 17 -
Penelope Delta
1874 – 1941 · Authors and Writers May 2 -
Peggy Shannon
1907 – 1941 · Actresses May 5 -
Ted Bennett
1872 – 1941 · Actors May 5 -
Lou Gehrig
1903 – 1941 · Athletes, Baseball Jun 2 -
Wilhelm II
1859 – 1941 · Royalty Jun 4 -
Blanche Chapman Ford
1851 – 1941 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Elliott Dexter
1870 – 1941 · Actors Jun 6 -
Martin Goldstein
1905 – 1941 · Gangster Jun 12 -
Laura Clay
1849 – 1941 · Politicians, Social Reformers, Suffragists Jun 29 -
Charles Eyton
1871 – 1941 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Jul 2 -
Auriol Lee
1880 – 1941 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Wilbur “W J” Cash
1900 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
Mock Duck
1879 – 1941 · Gangster Jul 24 -
Jean-Michel Frank
1895 – 1941 · Designer Aug 3 -
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941 · Artists and Architects, Authors and Writers, Poet Aug 7 -
J. Stuart Blackton
1875 – 1941 · Actors Aug 8 -
Mihály Babits
1883 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Aug 8 -
Natalio Félix Botana Millares
1888 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Aug 8 -
Stuart Blackton
1875 – 1941 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Aug 13 -
Josef Jakobs
1898 – 1941 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities, Gangster Aug 15 -
Sara Roosevelt
1854 – 1941 · Relatives Of Notable Sep 7 -
Italia Almirante
1890 – 1941 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Robert Gaillard
1868 – 1941 · Actors Sep 9 -
Vilmos Aba-Novak
1894 – 1941 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Italia Almirante
1890 – 1941 · Actresses Sep 16 -
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Robert Gaillard
1868 – 1941 · Actors Sep 24 -
Alexander Afinogenov
1904 – 1941 · Authors and Writers Oct 10 -
Ernest Whitworth Marland
1874 – 1941 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
Joseph V. Horn
1861 – 1941 Oct 10 -
Joachim Gottschalk
1904 – 1941 · Actors Nov 11 -
Abe Reles
1906 – 1941 · Gangster Nov 12 -
Bodil Ann Rosing
1877 – 1941 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Peetie Wheatstraw
1902 – 1941 · Musicians and Composers Dec 21 -
Blanche Bates
1873 – 1941 · Actresses Dec 25 -
Alexander Beliayev
1884 – 1942 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
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Carole Lombard
1908 – 1942 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Carole Lombard
1908 – 1942 · Actresses Jan 16 -
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
1856 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Anton Hulman, Sr
1864 – 1942 Feb 2 -
John Metz “J.M.” Schneider
1859 – 1942 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Martha McChesney Berry
1866 – 1942 Feb 2 -
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Robert Bosch
1861 – 1942 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Frank Abbundando
1910 – 1942 · Gangster Feb 19 -
Harry Maione
1908 – 1942 · Gangster Feb 19 -
Ashton Dearholt
1894 – 1942 · Actors Apr 4 -
Monte “Sonny” Brewer
1932 – 1942 · Actors Apr 4 -
Elías Isaac Alippi
1883 – 1942 · Actors May 5 -
Hale Rice Hamilton
1883 – 1942 · Actors May 5 -
John Sidney Barrymore
1882 – 1942 · Actors May 5 -
Charles Dalton
1869 – 1942 · Actors Jun 6 -
James Fawcett
1906 – 1942 · Actors Jun 6 -
Virginia Lee Corbin
1911 – 1942 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Charles Dalton
1869 – 1942 Jun 11 -
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Edwin Cooper
1874 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Mattie Eliza Howard Coleman
1870 – 1942 Jul 7 -
Moses Annenberg
1878 – 1942 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
Roberto Arlt
1900 – 1942 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
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Thomas Whitaker Trenchard
1863 – 1942 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7 -
Jimmy Blanton
1918 – 1942 · Musicians and Composers Jul 30 -
James Cruze
1884 – 1942 · Actors Aug 3 -
Jeanette Loff
1906 – 1942 · Actresses, Singer Aug 4 -
Jorge Cuesta
1903 – 1942 · Authors and Writers Aug 8 -
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Michel Fokine
1880 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
Rafaela Ottiano
1888 – 1942 · Actresses Aug 8 -
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Geoffrey Nares
1917 – 1942 Aug 20 -
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Emil Frei, Sr
1869 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
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Ralph Adams Cram
1863 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Margaret Greville
1863 – 1942 · Philanthropists, Socialite Sep 15 -
Yoshiharu Iwamoto
1863 – 1942 Oct 10 -
May Robson
1858 – 1942 · Actresses Oct 20 -
Edna Oliver
1883 – 1942 · Actresses Nov 9 -
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Billy DeBeck
1890 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Edna May Oliver
1883 – 1942 · Actresses Nov 11 -
John Avery McIlhenny
1867 – 1942 · Business Magnates Nov 11 -
Joseph A. Faurot
1872 – 1942 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11 -
Laura Hope Crews
1879 – 1942 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Sidney Fox
1907 – 1942 · Actresses Nov 11 -
William Stamps Farish, II
1881 – 1942 Nov 11 -
Ben Reitman
1879 – 1942 · Physician Nov 16 -
Hannah Solomon
1858 – 1942 · Social Reformers Dec 7 -
Albert Kahn
1869 – 1942 · Artists and Architects Dec 12 -
Albert Kahn
1869 – 1942 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Konstantin Balmont
1867 – 1942 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Viola Adele Porter
1879 – 1942 · Actresses Dec 12 -
A. Lawrence Lowell
1856 – 1943 Jan 1 -
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Charles Anson Bond, Sr
1873 – 1943 · Business Magnates Jan 1 -
Jane Avril
1868 – 1943 · Entertainers Jan 1 -
Robin George Collingwood
1889 – 1943 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Spencer Charters
1875 – 1943 · Actors Jan 1 -
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 7 -
Cale Rice
1872 – 1943 · Poet Jan 24 -
Frank Worsley
1872 – 1943 · Explorers and Adventurers Feb 1 -
Donald Haines
1919 – 1943 · Actors Feb 2 -
Stephen Hubert Avenel Haggard
1911 – 1943 · Actors Feb 2 -
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Yuzuru Hiraga
1878 – 1943 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Frank Calder
1877 – 1943 · Sports Figures Feb 4 -
Bess Houdini
1876 – 1943 · Relatives Of Notable Feb 11 -
Christoph Probst
1919 – 1943 · Social Reformers Feb 22 -
Hans Scholl
1918 – 1943 · Social Reformers Feb 22 -
Sophie Scholl
1921 – 1943 · Social Reformers Feb 22 -
Laurence Binyon
1869 – 1943 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Paul Delmont Bunker
1881 – 1943 · Athletes, Authors and Writers, Football Players Mar 3 -
Stephen Vincent Benet
1898 – 1943 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Tyler Brooke
1886 – 1943 · Actors Mar 3 -
William Lemp, III
1900 – 1943 Mar 3 -
Frank Nitti
1888 – 1943 · Gangster Mar 19 -
Alfred Hall
1881 – 1943 · Actors Apr 4 -
Carlos Arniches
1866 – 1943 · Authors and Writers Apr 4 -
Harry Baur
1880 – 1943 · Actors Apr 4 -
Howard Carpenter Marmon
1876 – 1943 · Business Magnates Apr 4 -
James A. Boarman
1919 – 1943 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Apr 4 -
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Sarah Welles “Sally” James Farnham
1869 – 1943 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
Edsel Bryant Ford
1893 – 1943 May 5 -
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Nils Dardel
1888 – 1943 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Helen Taft
1861 – 1943 · Politicians, US First Ladies May 22 -
Cecilia Loftus
1876 – 1943 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Gertrude Norman
1851 – 1943 · Actresses Jul 7 -
McClelland Barclay
1891 – 1943 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Reginald Barlow
1866 – 1943 · Actors Jul 7 -
Alexander Schmorell
1917 – 1943 · Social Reformers Jul 13 -
Kurt Huber
1893 – 1943 · Educators, Social Reformers Jul 13 -
Owen Nares
1888 – 1943 Jul 30 -
Victor Balasz Balasic, Jr
1897 – 1943 · Entertainers Aug 8 -
Adamae Vaughn
1905 – 1943 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Anna Chance
1879 – 1943 · Actresses Sep 9 -
William Sylvester Harley
1880 – 1943 Sep 9 -
Vito Cascioferro
1862 – 1943 · Gangster Sep 20 -
Camille Claudel
1864 – 1943 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
James Fraser
1875 – 1943 · Actors Oct 10 -
Willi Graf
1918 – 1943 · Social Reformers Oct 12 -
Amos “Butch” Arbour
1895 – 1943 · Sports Figures Nov 11 -
Andre Barlatier
1882 – 1943 · Entertainers Nov 11 -
Dwight Frye
1899 – 1943 · Actors Nov 11 -
Lee Beggs
1870 – 1943 · Actors Nov 11 -
Louisa Garrett Anderson
1873 – 1943 · Social Reformers, Suffragists Nov 11 -
Hooper Atchley
1887 – 1943 · Actors Nov 17 -
Lorenz Hart
1895 – 1943 · Musicians and Composers Nov 22 -
Charles M. Belcher
1870 – 1943 · Actors Dec 12 -
Hobart Bosworth
1867 – 1943 · Actors Dec 12 -
Fats Waller
1904 – 1943 · Musicians and Composers Dec 15 -
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Christian “Chris” Madsen
1851 – 1944 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jan 1 -
Kenneth I. Sawyer
1884 – 1944 · Business Magnates Jan 1 -
William Collier
1864 – 1944 · Actors Jan 1 -
Ida Tarbell
1857 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Jan 6 -
Lou Henry Hoover
1874 – 1944 · Politicians, US First Ladies Jan 7 -
Israel Joshua Singer
1893 – 1944 · Blues Singer Feb 2 -
Lawrence Grossmith
1877 – 1944 · Actors Feb 2 -
Lina Cavalieri
1874 – 1944 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Leo Baekeland
1863 – 1944 · Business Magnates, Scientists and Inventors Feb 23 -
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
1876 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Jules Semon “J.S.” Bache
1861 – 1944 Mar 3 -
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Jules Semon “J.S.” Bache
1861 – 1944 · Business Magnates Mar 3 -
Louis Buchalter
1897 – 1944 · Gangster Mar 4 -
Louis Capone
1896 – 1944 · Gangster Mar 4 -
Winthrop Rutherfurd
1862 – 1944 · Socialite Mar 19 -
Dick Purcell
1908 – 1944 · Actors Apr 10 -
George Ade
1866 – 1944 · Authors and Writers May 5 -
Rosa Rosanova
1869 – 1944 · Actresses May 5 -
Jessie Ralph
1864 – 1944 May 30 -
Jessie Ralph
1864 – 1944 · Actresses, Theater Actor May 30 -
Enrique Díez Canedo
1879 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Jun 7 -
Mildred Harris
1901 – 1944 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Nat Carr
1886 – 1944 · Actors Jul 7 -
William Kenzo Nakamura
1922 – 1944 · Native Americans Jul 7 -
Alan Dinehart
1889 – 1944 · Actors, Director Jul 17 -
Leonard Mason
1920 – 1944 · Medal of Honor Recipients Jul 22 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 – 1944 · Scientists and Inventors Jul 31 -
Robert Frazer
1891 – 1944 · Actors Aug 8 -
Florence Byrne Cartwright
1863 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
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Harry Chandler
1864 – 1944 Sep 9 -
Headley George Cooling
1888 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
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James Alexander Reed
1861 – 1944 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Sep 9 -
Helen Whitney
1875 – 1944 · Philanthropists, Poet Sep 24 -
Bud Jamison
1895 – 1944 · Actors Sep 30 -
Grace Henderson
1860 – 1944 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Harry Beresford
1863 – 1944 · Actors Oct 10 -
Henrietta Crosman
1861 – 1944 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Kurt Gerron
1897 – 1944 · Actors Oct 10 -
Petr Kien
1919 – 1944 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
Richard Bennett
1870 – 1944 · Actors Oct 10 -
Rufino Blanco Fombona
1874 – 1944 · Authors and Writers Oct 10 -
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Wilson Eyre, Jr
1858 – 1944 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Thomas Midgley
1889 – 1944 · Scientists and Inventors Nov 2 -
Endicott Peabody
1857 – 1944 Nov 11 -
Maria Jacobini
1892 – 1944 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Willard Bowsky
1907 – 1944 · Artists and Architects Nov 27 -
Laird Cregar
1913 – 1944 · Actors Dec 9 -
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Charles Dana Gibson
1867 – 1944 · Artists and Architects Dec 12 -
Lupe Velez
1908 – 1944 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944 · Artists and Architects Dec 12 -
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Glenn Miller
1904 – 1944 · Band Leader, Music Producer, Music Publisher, Musicians, Musicians and Composers Dec 15 -
Josephine Earp
1860 – 1944 · Relatives Of Notable Dec 19 -
Merna Kennedy
1908 – 1944 · Actresses, Theater Actor Dec 20 -
George Nash
1865 – 1944 · Actors Dec 30 -
Romain Rolland
1866 – 1944 · Celebrities, Musicians Dec 30 -
Alexander Stirling Calder
1870 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
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Édouard Bourdet
1887 – 1945 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Reginald Barker
1886 – 1945 · Entertainers Feb 2 -
Robert Brasillach
1909 – 1945 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Thomas Arthur O’Donnell
1870 – 1945 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Reginald Baker
1886 – 1945 · Film Director Feb 23 -
Alexander Granach
1893 – 1945 · Actors Mar 3 -
Emily Carr
1871 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Mar 3 -
Lucille LaVerne
1869 – 1945 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Sgt Henry A. Barrows
1875 – 1945 · Actors Mar 3 -
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Vincent Hugo Bendix
1881 – 1945 · Business Magnates Mar 3 -
Mark Sandrich
1900 – 1945 · Film Director Mar 4 -
Lena Baker
1900 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Mar 5 -
John Hessin Clarke
1857 – 1945 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Mar 22 -
Ens William Fairbanks
1894 – 1945 Apr 1 -
Hans Brausewetter
1899 – 1945 · Actors Apr 4 -
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Käthe Kollwitz
1867 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
Luisa Ferida
1914 – 1945 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Peggy O’Neill
1924 – 1945 · Actresses Apr 4 -
William Fairbanks
1894 – 1945 · Actors Apr 4 -
Gloria Dickson
1917 – 1945 · Actresses Apr 10 -
Franklin D Roosevelt
1882 – 1945 · Politicians, US Presidents and Vice Presidents Apr 12 -
Benito Mussolini
1883 – 1945 · Politicians Apr 28 -
Osvaldo Valenti
1906 – 1945 Apr 30 -
Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945 · Politicians Apr 30 -
Joseph Goebbels
1897 – 1945 · Politicians May 1 -
David Clyde
1885 – 1945 · Actors May 5 -
Demyan Bedny
1883 – 1945 · Authors and Writers May 5 -
Horace B. Carpenter
1875 – 1945 · Actors May 5 -
René Lalique
1860 – 1945 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Alec Craig
1884 – 1945 · Actors Jun 6 -
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José Gutiérrez Solana
1886 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Jun 6 -
William P. De Vaull
1871 – 1945 · Actors Jun 6 -
Theodore Hardeen
1876 – 1945 · Magicians Jun 12 -
James Scrugham
1880 – 1945 · Politicians Jun 23 -
Edward M. Brumage
1867 – 1945 · Actors Jul 7 -
Emmanuel Bove
1898 – 1945 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
Ernest Evers
1874 – 1945 · Actors Jul 7 -
Etta Hawkins
1865 – 1945 · Actresses Jul 7 -
George Barbier
1866 – 1945 · Actors Jul 7 -
Jeanne Lawrence
1900 – 1945 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Alla Nazimova
1879 – 1945 · Actresses Jul 13 -
Alla Nazimova
1879 – 1945 · Actresses Jul 13 -
Addison Owen Randall
1906 – 1945 · Actors Jul 16 -
Edward Knoblock
1874 – 1945 · Authors and Writers Jul 19 -
Richard Bong
1920 – 1945 · Military Figures Aug 6 -
Elfego Baca
1865 – 1945 · Politicians Aug 8 -
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Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr
1877 – 1945 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Aug 8 -
Harrison Greene
1884 – 1945 · Actors Sep 9 -
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Leora Middleton
1888 – 1945 · Actresses Sep 9 -
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Paul Philippe Cret
1876 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Ted Edwards
1883 – 1945 · Actors Sep 9 -
Anton Webern
1883 – 1945 · Musicians and Composers Sep 15 -
Don Costello
1901 – 1945 · Actors Oct 10 -
Franklin Carmichael
1890 – 1945 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Gilbert Emery
1875 – 1945 · Actors Oct 10 -
Henry Ainley
1879 – 1945 · Actors Oct 10 -
Henry Armetta
1888 – 1945 · Actors Oct 10 -
Milton Snavely “M.S.” Hershey
1857 – 1945 Oct 10 -
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Pierre-Basile Mignault
1854 – 1945 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Milton Hershey
1857 – 1945 · Business Magnates, Philanthropists Oct 13 -
Henry Armetta
1888 – 1945 · Actors Oct 21 -
Charles Coborn
1852 – 1945 · Actors Nov 11 -
Eldridge Reeves Johnson
1867 – 1945 Nov 11 -
Robert Benchley
1889 – 1945 · Actors, Authors and Writers Nov 11 -
William Nickerson, Jr
1879 – 1945 · Business Magnates Nov 11 -
Beulah “Dark Cloud” Tahamont Filson
1887 – 1945 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Burt Edward Baluk, Jr
1926 – 1945 · Victims of crime and disaster Dec 12 -
Donald Douglas
1905 – 1945 · Actors Dec 12 -
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Giovanni Agnelli
1866 – 1945 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
John Amery
1912 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 12 -
John Amery
1912 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 12 -
Russell Gleason
1907 – 1945 · Actors Dec 12 -
Elisabeth Volkenrath
1919 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 13 -
Fritz Klein
1888 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 13 -
Josef Kramer
1906 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 13 -
Juana Bormann
1893 – 1945 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 13 -
Countee Cullen
1903 – 1946 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Elfriede Datzig
1922 – 1946 · Actors Jan 1 -
Etta McDaniel
1890 – 1946 · Actresses Jan 1 -
George L. Cox
1875 – 1946 · Actors Jan 1 -
Grace Sutherland
1854 – 1946 · Actresses Jan 1 -
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Walter Gilbert
1871 – 1946 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Jean Gordon
1915 – 1946 · Socialite Jan 8 -
Pietro Boetto
1871 – 1946 · Religious Figures Jan 31 -
Bill Christy
1925 – 1946 · Actors Feb 2 -
Bud Geary
1898 – 1946 · Actors Feb 2 -
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Col Evett Dumas Nix
1861 – 1946 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2 -
George Arliss
1868 – 1946 · Actors Feb 2 -
Justus D. Barnes
1862 – 1946 · Actors Feb 2 -
George Arliss
1868 – 1946 · Actors Feb 5 -
Dorothy Gibson
1889 – 1946 · Actresses Feb 17 -
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Glen Cooper Henshaw
1880 – 1946 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
Lionel Atwill
1885 – 1946 · Actors Apr 4 -
Mae Busch
1891 – 1946 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Noah Nicholas Beery, Sr
1882 – 1946 · Actors Apr 4 -
Joseph Mack
1878 – 1946 · Actors Apr 8 -
Mae Busch
1891 – 1946 · Actresses Apr 19 -
John M Keynes
1883 – 1946 · Politicians Apr 21 -
John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946 · Business Magnates, Politicians Apr 21 -
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Cornelius Haley Hankins
1863 – 1946 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
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Isaac Grünewald
1889 – 1946 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Lillian Harmer Kaeber
1883 – 1946 · Actors May 5 -
John Tener
1863 – 1946 · Athletes, Baseball, Politicians May 19 -
Otto Moll
1915 – 1946 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities May 28 -
Louis Liggett
1875 – 1946 · Business Magnates Jun 5 -
Antoinette “Toni” Perry
1888 – 1946 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Arthur Aylesworth
1883 – 1946 · Actors Jun 6 -
Mayme Kelso
1867 – 1946 · Actresses Jun 6 -
William Surrey Hart
1864 – 1946 · Actors Jun 6 -
Jack Johnson
1878 – 1946 · Boxers, Sports Figures Jun 10 -
Edward Bowes
1874 – 1946 · Radio Performers Jun 13 -
Charles Butterworth
1896 – 1946 · Actors, Comedian Jun 14 -
John Logie Baird
1888 – 1946 · Scientists and Inventors Jun 14 -
Mary Alden
1883 – 1946 · Actresses Jul 2 -
Gus Glassmire
1879 – 1946 · Actors Jul 7 -
Joseph L. Musso
1880 – 1946 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Ray Stannard Baker
1870 – 1946 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
Abraham Jacob “A.J.” Bogdanove
1886 – 1946 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
Egon Brecher
1880 – 1946 · Actors Aug 8 -
Florence Turner
1885 – 1946 · Actresses Aug 8 -
Jeanie MacPherson
1887 – 1946 · Actresses Aug 8 -
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John Steuart Curry
1897 – 1946 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
John Ragland
1905 – 1946 Aug 20 -
Alexander Carr
1878 – 1946 · Actors Sep 9 -
Charles Callahan
1889 – 1946 · Actors Sep 9 -
Claude Fayette Bragdon
1866 – 1946 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Fern Emmett
1896 – 1946 · Actresses Sep 9 -
George Washington Hill
1884 – 1946 Sep 9 -
Fernando Freyre de Andrade
1903 – 1946 · Actors Oct 10 -
Fernando Freyre de Andrade
1903 – 1946 · Actors Oct 10 -
Henry Bergman
1868 – 1946 · Actors Oct 10 -
J. Malcolm Dunn
1869 – 1946 · Actors Oct 10 -
Walter Thomas Cranfield
1946 · Authors and Writers Oct 10 -
Charles R. Bowers
1887 – 1946 · Actors Nov 11 -
Edward G. Budd, Sr
1870 – 1946 · Business Magnates Nov 11 -
Walter Johnson
1887 – 1946 · Athletes, Baseball Dec 10 -
Renee Falconetti
1893 – 1946 Dec 12 -
Earl May
1888 – 1946 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Laurette Taylor
1884 – 1946 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Renée Maria Falconetti
1892 – 1946 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Renée Maria Falconetti
1892 – 1946 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Eva Tanguay
1879 – 1947 · Actresses Jan 1 -
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Helena Gleichen
1873 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Herbert Corthell
1878 – 1947 · Actors Jan 1 -
Herman Bing
1889 – 1947 · Actors Jan 1 -
Gus Wickie
1885 – 1947 · Musicians and Composers Jan 3 -
Ignatius Lupo
1877 – 1947 · Gangster Jan 13 -
Josh Gibson
1911 – 1947 · Athletes, Baseball Jan 20 -
Al Capone
1899 – 1947 · Gangster, Organized Crime Figures Jan 25 -
Lemuel Oscar Motlow
1869 – 1947 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Lemuel Oscar Motlow
1869 – 1947 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
Annie Heloise Abel Henderson
1873 – 1947 · Native Americans Mar 3 -
Columbus Marion “Dad” Joiner
1860 – 1947 Mar 3 -
Harris Gordon
1884 – 1947 · Actors Mar 3 -
Harry Alexander Connor
1904 – 1947 · Native Americans Mar 3 -
Leonard Grover, Jr
1858 – 1947 · Actors Mar 3 -
Louis Adlon
1908 – 1947 · Actors Mar 3 -
Carrie Chapman Catt
1859 – 1947 · Social Reformers, Suffragists Mar 9 -
Elsa O’Connor
1906 – 1947 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Helen Mann
1915 – 1947 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Henry Ford
1863 – 1947 Apr 4 -
John Milburn Davis
1855 – 1947 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Apr 4 -
Willa Cather
1873 – 1947 · Authors and Writers Apr 4 -
Louise Peete
1880 – 1947 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Apr 11 -
Benny Leonard
1896 – 1947 · Boxers Apr 18 -
Helen Mann
1915 – 1947 · Actresses Apr 20 -
Irving Fisher
1867 – 1947 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 29 -
William Marston
1893 – 1947 · Artists and Architects May 2 -
Amedeo Voltejo Obici
1877 – 1947 · Business Magnates May 5 -
Clarice Roma Bard
1919 – 1947 · Actresses May 5 -
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr
1858 – 1947 · Business Magnates May 5 -
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Jefferson Davis “Jeff” Milton
1861 – 1947 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5 -
John Arledge
1907 – 1947 · Actors May 5 -
Minnie Dupree
1873 – 1947 · Actresses May 5 -
Richard Foy
1905 – 1947 · Actors May 5 -
John Arledge
1907 – 1947 · Actors May 15 -
Philipp Lenard
1862 – 1947 · Scientists and Inventors May 20 -
Adrienne Ames
1903 – 1947 · Actresses May 31 -
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John Reynolds Hughes
1855 – 1947 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jun 6 -
Bugsy Siegel
1906 – 1947 · Gangster Jun 20 -
Maciste
1878 – 1947 · Actors Jun 24 -
Ossi Oswalda
1897 – 1947 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Theodore Billings
1880 – 1947 · Actors Jul 7 -
Kathleen Scott
1878 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Jul 25 -
Ettore Bugatti
1881 – 1947 · Business Magnates Aug 8 -
Morden Neilson
1879 – 1947 · Business Magnates Aug 8 -
Harry Carey
1878 – 1947 · Actors Sep 21 -
Olive Borden
1906 – 1947 · Actresses Oct 1 -
Max Planck
1858 – 1947 · Scientists and Inventors Oct 4 -
Dudley Digges
1879 – 1947 · Actors Oct 10 -
Rotraut Richter
1915 – 1947 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Frances Folsom Cleveland
1864 – 1947 · Politicians, US First Ladies Oct 29 -
Dudley Clements
1889 – 1947 · Actors Nov 11 -
Ernest S. “Ernie” Adams
1885 – 1947 · Actors Nov 11 -
Ezra Frederick Scattergood
1871 – 1947 · Business Magnates Nov 11 -
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John Bassett Moore
1860 – 1947 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11 -
John Prentiss Benson
1865 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
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Léon-Paul Fargue
1876 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Mabel Van Buren
1878 – 1947 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Mariano Benlliure
1862 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Wolfgang Borchert
1921 – 1947 · Authors and Writers Nov 11 -
Aleister Crowley
1875 – 1947 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
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Col James Beauregard “Jim” Beam
1864 – 1947 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Frank Crowninshield
1872 – 1947 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Milton H Bancroft
1866 – 1947 · Artists and Architects Dec 12 -
Nicholas Murray Butler
1862 – 1947 Dec 12 -
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Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury
1877 – 1947 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Dec 12 -
Tristan Bernard
1866 – 1947 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Bill Cody
1891 – 1948 · Actors Jan 1 -
Cosmo Bellew
1885 – 1948 · Actors Jan 1 -
Edna May
1878 – 1948 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Nigel De Brulier
1877 – 1948 · Actors Jan 1 -
Maria Mandl
1912 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 24 -
Arthur Liebehenschel
1901 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 28 -
Hans Aumeier
1906 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 28 -
Therese Brandl
1902 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 28 -
Gandhi
1869 – 1948 · Politicians, Social Reformers Jan 30 -
Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948 · Politicians Jan 30 -
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Camila Quiroga
1891 – 1948 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Camila Quiroga
1891 – 1948 · Actresses Feb 2 -
John Robert Gregg
1867 – 1948 Feb 2 -
Lee Baker
1875 – 1948 · Actors Feb 2 -
Sergei Eisenstein
1898 – 1948 · Celebrities, Film Director, Scientists and Inventors Feb 11 -
Camila Quiroga
1891 – 1948 Feb 28 -
Antonin Artaud
1896 – 1948 · Actors Mar 3 -
Edgar de Wahl
1867 – 1948 · Politicians Mar 9 -
Buster Brodie
1885 – 1948 · Actors Apr 4 -
Leslie Fuller
1888 – 1948 · Actors Apr 4 -
Henry Methvin
1912 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Apr 19 -
Aldo Leopold
1887 – 1948 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 21 -
Tatsukichi Minobe
1873 – 1948 May 5 -
Vera Gordon
1886 – 1948 · Actresses May 5 -
Viola Allen
1869 – 1948 · Actresses May 5 -
Viola Allen
1867 – 1948 · Actresses May 9 -
Peter Genna
1948 · Gangster May 13 -
George Polk
1913 – 1948 · Victims of crime and disaster May 15 -
Alvah Curtis Roebuck
1864 – 1948 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Beryl Wallace
1916 – 1948 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Charles Nash
1864 – 1948 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Charles Williams Nash
1864 – 1948 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Frank Clarke
1898 – 1948 · Actors Jun 6 -
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
1857 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Jun 6 -
Earl Carroll
1893 – 1948 · Director, Producer Jun 17 -
Carole Landis
1919 – 1948 · Actresses Jul 5 -
Georges Bernanos
1888 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
James Baskett
1904 – 1948 · Actors Jul 7 -
King Baggot
1879 – 1948 · Entertainers Jul 7 -
Ruth Neudeck
1920 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 29 -
Mileva Marić
1875 – 1948 · Scientists and Inventors Aug 4 -
Elaine Hammerstein
1896 – 1948 · Actresses Aug 8 -
Ignaz Schwinn
1860 – 1948 · Business Magnates Aug 8 -
Kanichi Asakawa
1873 – 1948 · Educators Aug 8 -
Ned Dandy
1888 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Aug 8 -
Babe Ruth
1895 – 1948 · Athletes, Baseball Aug 16 -
Charles Beard
1874 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
Charles Henry Ingersoll
1865 – 1948 Sep 9 -
Stella Razetto
1880 – 1948 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
1876 – 1948 · Politicians Sep 11 -
Vernon Dalhart
1883 – 1948 · Singer, Song Writers Sep 14 -
Warren William
1894 – 1948 · Actors Sep 24 -
Gregg Toland
1904 – 1948 · Producer Sep 28 -
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
1861 – 1948 · Politicians, US First Ladies Sep 30 -
Sydney Anderson
1881 – 1948 · Politicians Oct 8 -
Bert Gudgeon
1888 – 1948 · Actors Oct 10 -
Edythe Chapman
1863 – 1948 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Karl Hackett
1893 – 1948 · Actors Oct 10 -
Mary Eaton
1901 – 1948 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Nora Lane
1905 – 1948 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Thomas Augustine “T.A.” Daly
1871 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Oct 10 -
Elissa Landi
1904 – 1948 · Actresses Oct 21 -
Carl Hackett
1893 – 1948 · Actors Oct 24 -
Mary Nolan
1902 – 1948 · Actresses, Model Oct 31 -
Edgar Kennedy
1890 – 1948 · Actors, Comedian Nov 9 -
Charles D. Brown
1887 – 1948 · Actors Nov 11 -
Fred Niblo
1874 – 1948 · Actors Nov 11 -
George F. Johnson
1857 – 1948 Nov 11 -
Isabel Anderson
1876 – 1948 · Authors and Writers Nov 11 -
Sam Shockley
1909 – 1948 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 3 -
Steve Drake
1923 – 1948 · Actors Dec 12 -
Joseph B. Cawthorn
1868 – 1949 · Actors Jan 1 -
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Othon Friesz
1879 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Tommy Handley
1892 – 1949 · Actors Jan 1 -
Joseph Cawthorn
1868 – 1949 · Actors Jan 21 -
Christian Bérard
1902 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Roman Bohnen
1901 – 1949 · Actors Feb 24 -
Felix Bressart
1895 – 1949 · Actors Mar 3 -
Gordon Bernie Kaufmann
1888 – 1949 · Business Magnates Mar 3 -
Lloyd William Barker
1898 – 1949 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Mar 3 -
Ross Shaw Sterling, Sr
1875 – 1949 · Business Magnates Mar 3 -
Will Hay
1888 – 1949 · Actors Apr 4 -
Wallace Beery
1885 – 1949 · Actors Apr 15 -
Bela Balazs
1884 – 1949 · Authors and Writers May 5 -
Chuck Baldra
1899 – 1949 · Actors May 5 -
James Truslow Adams
1878 – 1949 · Authors and Writers May 5 -
Jay Belasco
1888 – 1949 · Actors May 5 -
Robert Ripley
1890 – 1949 · Artists and Architects May 27 -
Eddie De Lange
1904 – 1949 · Actors Jun 6 -
Jake Bird
1901 – 1949 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 14 -
Frank Hans Johnston
1888 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Frank Hans Johnston
1888 – 1949 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Walt Kuhn
1880 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Harry Davenport
1866 – 1949 · Actors Aug 8 -
Al Shean
1868 – 1949 · Comedian Aug 12 -
Blanca Estela Pavón
1926 – 1949 · Actresses Sep 9 -
Hallie Quinn Brown
1850 – 1949 Sep 9 -
Will Cuppy
1884 – 1949 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
Tiny Bonham
1913 – 1949 · Athletes, Baseball Sep 15 -
Frank Morgan
1890 – 1949 · Actors Sep 18 -
Richard Dix
1893 – 1949 · Actors Sep 20 -
Sam Wood
1884 – 1949 · Director, Film Director Sep 22 -
David Adler
1882 – 1949 · Artists and Architects, Designer Sep 27 -
Buddy Clark
1912 – 1949 · Singer Oct 1 -
Chikuhei Nakajima
1884 – 1949 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
Federico Beltrán-Masses
1885 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Montgomery Barrett
1897 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Sydney Lee
1866 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Charles Alexander See
1882 – 1949 · Business Magnates Nov 11 -
Elinor Troy
1916 – 1949 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Irene Barnes Vanbrugh
1872 – 1949 · Actresses Nov 11 -
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James Sydney Ensor
1860 – 1949 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Lester Allen
1891 – 1949 · Actors Nov 11 -
Solomon Robert Guggenheim
1861 – 1949 Nov 11 -
William Desmond
1878 – 1949 · Actors Nov 11 -
Charles Dullin
1885 – 1949 · Actors Dec 12 -
Hervey Allen, Jr
1889 – 1949 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Ivy Anderson
1904 – 1949 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Leon Schlesinger
1884 – 1949 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Maria Ouspenskaya
1876 – 1949 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Philip Barry, Sr
1896 – 1949 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Anne Frank
1929 – 1945 · Authors and Writers -
Aubrey Beattie
1865 – 1944 · Actors -
David Robert Sprüngli-Baud
1851 – 1944 · Business Magnates -
Jun Ishihara
1881 – 1947 -
Kocho Baba
1869 – 1940 · Educators -
Overton Gentry Ellis
1860 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers -
Pomeroy Burton
1869 – 1947 · Business Magnates -
S. S. McClure
1857 – 1949 · Business Magnates -
Suiun Komuro
1874 – 1945 · Artists and Architects -
Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda
1879 – 1940 · Educators -
Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda
1879 – 1940 · Educators -
Tetsu Yasui
1870 – 1945 · Educators