Celebrity Deaths in the 1950s

762 notable figures died in the 1950s. Listed below in order of date of death.

Alan Hale
1892 – 1950 · Actors Jan 1
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Henry Franklin Lawrence
1868 – 1950 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jan 1
Monty Banks
1897 – 1950 · Actors Jan 1
Seiichi Hatano
1877 – 1950 Jan 1
Tess Gardella
1894 – 1950 · Actresses Jan 3
Joseph Schumpeter
1883 – 1950 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 8
George Orwell
1903 – 1950 · Authors and Writers Jan 21
Alan Hale
1892 – 1950 · Actors Jan 22
Henry Branch “Hank” Bell
1892 – 1950 · Actors Feb 2
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875 – 1950 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Ellis Gimbel
1865 – 1950 Mar 3
Frank Buck
1884 – 1950 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Jim Corey
1889 – 1950 · Actors Mar 3
Sid Grauman
1879 – 1950 · Actors Mar 3
Marguerite de La Motte
1902 – 1950 · Actresses Mar 10
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Charles Emile Heil
1870 – 1950 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Frances Ford Seymour
1908 – 1950 · Actresses Apr 4
Generoso Pope, Sr
1891 – 1950 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Muriel Starr
1888 – 1950 · Actresses Apr 4
Hobart Cavanaugh
1886 – 1950 · Actors Apr 26
Warren Jackson
1892 – 1950 May 10
C. Graham Baker
1883 – 1950 · Entertainers May 15
Jane Cowl
1884 – 1950 · Actresses Jun 6
William-Henry Atherton
1867 – 1950 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Helen Holmes
1892 – 1950 · Actresses Jul 8
Evangeline Booth
1865 – 1950 · Social Reformers Jul 17
Zeffie Tilbury
1863 – 1950 · Actresses Jul 24
Guido Deiro
1886 – 1950 · Actors Jul 26
Frank Faucett Phillips
1873 – 1950 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Madeline Grey
1887 – 1950 · Actresses Aug 8
Ransom Eli Olds
1864 – 1950 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Black Elk
1863 – 1950 · Native Americans Aug 19
Cesare Pavese
1908 – 1950 · Authors and Writers Aug 27
Symona Boniface
1894 – 1950 · Actresses Sep 2
Flora Parker
1883 – 1950 · Actresses Sep 9
Max Davidson
1875 – 1950 · Actors Sep 9
Ralph Lawrence Carr
1887 – 1950 · Native Americans Sep 9
Symona Boniface
1894 – 1950 · Actresses Sep 9
Sara Allgood
1879 – 1950 · Actresses Sep 13
John Fitzgerald
1863 – 1950 · Politicians Oct 2
George Hainsworth
1893 – 1950 · Hockey Oct 9
John Jakob Raskob
1879 – 1950 · Business Magnates Oct 10
Willis Haviland Carrier
1876 – 1950 Oct 10
Edwin Sutherland
1883 – 1950 · Scientists and Inventors Oct 11
Christy Cabanne
1888 – 1950 · Film Director Oct 15
William Christy Cabanne
1888 – 1950 Oct 16
Al Jolson
1886 – 1950 · Actors, Comedian, Singer Oct 23
Maurice Costello
1877 – 1950 · Actors Oct 29
Leslie Coffelt
1910 – 1950 · Victims of crime and disaster Nov 1
Grover Cleveland Alexander
1887 – 1950 · Athletes, Sports Figures Nov 4
Betty Francisco
1900 – 1950 · Actresses Nov 11
Grover Cleveland “Pete” Alexander
1887 – 1950 · Sports Figures Nov 11
Leslie William Coffelt
1910 – 1950 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11
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Walter Herschel Beech
1891 – 1950 · Business Magnates Nov 11
Arthur Davidson
1881 – 1950 Dec 12
Belle Stoddard
1869 – 1950 · Actresses Dec 12
Evelyn Selbie
1871 – 1950 · Actresses Dec 12
Herbert Marcus
1878 – 1950 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Blanche “Bonnie” Earle
1882 – 1951 · Actresses Jan 1
Dr Ferdinand Porsche
1875 – 1951 · Business Magnates Jan 1
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Maxwell Wilbur Becton
1868 – 1951 · Business Magnates Jan 1
May Foster
1873 – 1951 · Actresses Jan 1
Sinclair Lewis
1885 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Jan 10
Blanche Earle
1882 – 1951 Jan 22
Ferdinand Porsche
1875 – 1951 · Business Magnates, Scientists and Inventors Jan 30
Gizi Bajor
1893 – 1951 · Actresses Feb 2
Martina Von Trapp Dupire
1921 – 1951 · Actresses Feb 2
Eddy Duchin
1909 – 1951 · Band Leader, Musicians and Composers Feb 9
Tomasso Gagliano
1884 – 1951 · Gangster Feb 16
Charles Pearce Coleman
1885 – 1951 · Actors Mar 3
Charles Peyton Glocker
1869 – 1951 · Actors Mar 3
Dorothy Olson
1917 – 1951 · Actresses Mar 3
Tex Cooper
1876 – 1951 · Actors Mar 3
Val Lewton
1904 – 1951 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Mar 14
Charles Keck
1875 – 1951 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Jules Berry
1883 – 1951 · Actors Apr 4
Philip Mangano
1898 – 1951 · Gangster Apr 19
George Lovington “Sassafrass” Winter
1878 – 1951 · Native Americans May 5
Hermann Broch
1886 – 1951 · Authors and Writers May 5
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John Kee
1874 – 1951 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5
Warner Baxter
1889 – 1951 · Actors May 5
Fanny Brice
1891 – 1951 · Actresses, Singer May 29
Alain
1868 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Alain
1868 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
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Alain
1868 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Herman Hupfeld
1894 – 1951 · Musicians and Composers Jun 8
Mayo Methot
1904 – 1951 · Actresses Jun 9
Peter Cheyney
1896 – 1951 · Actors, Authors and Writers Jun 26
Ethel Shannon
1898 – 1951 · Actresses Jul 7
Francisco Boix
1920 – 1951 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Marion Aye
1903 – 1951 · Actresses Jul 7
Robert Drysdale
1951 · Actors Jul 7
Tadeusz Borowski
1922 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 – 1951 · Musicians and Composers Jul 13
Samuel Lester Agnew
1887 – 1951 · Athletes, Sports Figures Jul 19
Marion Aye
1903 – 1951 · Actresses Jul 21
Abraham Cahan
1860 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Arthur Ball
1894 – 1951 · Entertainers Aug 8
John Paris “J.P.” Bickell
1884 – 1951 Aug 8
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John Paris “J.P.” Bickell
1884 – 1951 · Business Magnates Aug 8
William Randolph Hearst Sr
1863 – 1951 · American journalist Aug 8
Maria Montez
1912 – 1951 · Actresses Sep 7
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Clarence Leo Best
1878 – 1951 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Gibson Gowland
1877 – 1951 · Actors Sep 9
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Louis Alojz Adamic
1898 – 1951 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
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Sir Hugh Andrew Montague Allan
1860 – 1951 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Clifton Young
1917 – 1951 · Actors Sep 10
Guarino Moretti
1894 – 1951 · Gangster Oct 4
Namihei Odaira
1874 – 1951 · Business Magnates Oct 5
Leon Errol
1881 – 1951 · Actors Oct 10
Will Keith Kellogg
1860 – 1951 Oct 10
Mady Christians
1892 – 1951 · Actresses Oct 28
Frank Weston Benson
1862 – 1951 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Robert Elliott
1879 – 1951 · Actors Nov 11
Shoeless Joe Jackson
1887 – 1951 · Baseball Dec 5
J. Edward Bromberg
1903 – 1951 · Actors Dec 12
Johnny Arthur
1883 – 1951 · Actors Dec 12
Mildred Bailey
1907 – 1951 · Entertainers Dec 12
Samuel Lindsay “Sam” Browne
1869 – 1951 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Dec 12
Barton Yarborough
1900 – 1951 · Actors Dec 16
Sam Genna
1951 · Gangster Dec 20
Hiram Bithorn
1916 – 1951 · Baseball, Victims of crime and disaster Dec 29
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Charles Isaac Ginner
1878 – 1952 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Dick Curtis
1902 – 1952 · Actors Jan 1
Jerome Howard
1903 – 1952 · Actors, Comedian Jan 18
Polly Moran
1883 – 1952 · Actresses, Comedian Jan 25
Edna Phillips
1878 – 1952 · Actresses Feb 2
George VI
1895 – 1952 · Athletes, Royalty, Tennis Player Feb 6
King George VI
1895 – 1952 · Philanthropists, Politicians, Relatives Of Notable, Royalty Feb 6
Gregory La Cava
1892 – 1952 · Director, Film Director Mar 1
Clair C. Criss
1879 – 1952 Mar 3
Howard Primrose Whidden
1871 – 1952 · Educators Mar 3
Marjorie Zier
1909 – 1952 · Actresses Mar 3
Tiny Jones
1875 – 1952 · Actresses Mar 3
Arnold Schuster
1927 – 1952 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers, Victims of crime and disaster Mar 8
Marjorie Zier
1909 – 1952 Mar 9
Uncle Dave Macon
1870 – 1952 · Country Music Mar 22
Caroline Risque Janis
1883 – 1952 · Business Magnates Apr 4
George Edwin Bunny
1868 – 1952 · Actors Apr 4
Leslie Banks
1890 – 1952 · Entertainers Apr 4
Vadim Uraneff
1895 – 1952 Apr 5
Albert Bassermann
1867 – 1952 · Actors May 5
John Garfield
1913 – 1952 · Actors May 5
Liva Weel
1897 – 1952 · Actresses May 5
Myron Hunt
1868 – 1952 · Artists and Architects May 5
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Christine Granville
1915 – 1952 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jun 6
Emma Eames
1865 – 1952 · Actresses Jun 6
John Dewey
1859 – 1952 Jun 6
Monte Collins
1898 – 1952 · Actors Jun 6
Emma Eames
1865 – 1952 Jun 13
Waxey Gordon
1888 – 1952 · Gangster Jun 24
Alison Skipworth
1863 – 1952 · Actresses Jul 7
Edward Mayne Ellis
1870 – 1952 · Actors Jul 7
Gypsy Abbott
1896 – 1952 · Actresses Jul 7
Gypsy Abbott
1896 – 1952 · Actresses Jul 7
William Augustus “Gus” Greenlee
1895 – 1952 Jul 7
Eva Peron
1919 – 1952 · Politicians, President Jul 26
Charles French
1860 – 1952 · Actors Aug 8
Mimi Forsythe
1921 – 1952 · Actresses Aug 8
Tom Chatterton
1881 – 1952 · Actors Aug 8
Ralph Byrd
1909 – 1952 · Actors Aug 18
Saint Alberto Hurtado
1901 – 1952 · Educators, Religious Figures, Social Reformers Aug 18
George Swinnerton Parker
1866 – 1952 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Gertrude Lawrence
1898 – 1952 · Actresses Sep 9
Vesta Tilley
1864 – 1952 · Actresses Sep 9
Edward Sheriff Curtis
1868 – 1952 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Jean François Joseph Clerc
1868 – 1952 · Actors Oct 10
Julia Dean
1878 – 1952 · Actresses Oct 10
Susan Peters
1921 – 1952 · Actresses Oct 23
Rudolph Hass
1892 – 1952 · Business Magnates Oct 24
Hattie McDaniel
1895 – 1952 · Actresses, Social Reformers Oct 26
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Carl Frederick Gaertner
1898 – 1952 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Dixie Lee Crosby
1911 – 1952 · Actresses Nov 11
Manuel Encarnacion Amador Torreros
1869 – 1952 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Manuel Encarnacion Amador Torreros
1869 – 1952 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
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Sidney Miles
1910 – 1952 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11
Charles Lightoller
1874 – 1952 · Victims of crime and disaster Dec 8
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William Goscombe John
1860 – 1952 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Fletcher Henderson
1897 – 1952 · Musicians and Composers Dec 29
Alfred Laliberté
1878 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Derek Bentley
1933 – 1953 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 1
Edna Payne
1891 – 1953 · Actresses Jan 1
Hank Williams Sr.
1923 – 1953 · Country Music Jan 1
Leila McIntyre
1882 – 1953 · Actresses Jan 1
Lionel Belmore
1867 – 1953 · Entertainers Jan 1
Alan Curtis
1909 – 1953 · Actors Feb 2
Cliff Clark
1889 – 1953 · Actors Feb 2
Carrie Marcus Neiman
1883 – 1953 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Irene Bordoni
1895 – 1953 · Actresses, Singer Mar 3
Jim Jeffries
1875 – 1953 · Boxers Mar 3
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Raoul Dufy
1877 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Joseph Stalin
1878 – 1953 · Politicians Mar 5
Carrie Neiman
1883 – 1953 · Business Magnates Mar 6
Irene Bordoni
1895 – 1953 · Actresses Mar 19
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson “C.E.M.” Joad
1891 – 1953 Apr 4
Moise Kisling
1891 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Sarah Adler
1858 – 1953 · Actresses Apr 4
George S. Barnes
1892 – 1953 · Entertainers May 5
Jean Adair
1873 – 1953 · Actresses May 5
Mozelle Britton
1912 – 1953 · Actresses May 18
Dooley Wilson
1886 – 1953 · Actors, Singer May 30
Bill Tilden
1893 – 1953 · Athletes Jun 5
Roland Young
1887 – 1953 · Actors Jun 5
William Farnum
1876 – 1953 · Actors Jun 5
Albert J. “Curley” Dresden
1899 – 1953 · Actors Jun 6
Burr Caruth
1865 – 1953 · Actors Jun 6
Elsa Maartman Beskow
1874 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Ernest Trow Carter
1866 – 1953 · Actors Jun 6
Lillian McMurray
1908 – 1953 · Actresses Jun 6
Irving Reis
1906 – 1953 · Director, Film Director Jul 3
Austin Ira Aten
1862 – 1953 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7
Frankie Bailey
1859 – 1953 · Actresses Jul 7
Hilaire Belloc
1870 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
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Howard Arden Edwards
1884 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Maude Adams
1872 – 1953 · Actresses Jul 7
Maude Adams
1872 – 1953 · Actresses Jul 7
Tsumasaburo Bando
1901 – 1953 · Actors Jul 7
Frankie Bailey
1859 – 1953 · Actors Jul 8
James Finlayson
1887 – 1953 · Actors Jul 13
John Horne Burns
1916 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
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Luis Dubón
1892 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Margarete Slezak
1901 – 1953 · Actresses Aug 8
Charles Chadwick
1874 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Viola Fortesque
1875 – 1953 · Actresses Sep 9
Walter Bonn
1888 – 1953 · Actors Sep 9
Bobby Greenlease
1947 – 1953 · Victims of crime and disaster Sep 28
Kathleen Ferrier
1912 – 1953 · Singer Oct 8
Nigel Bruce
1895 – 1953 · Actors, Authors and Writers Oct 8
Everett Brown
1902 – 1953 · Actors Oct 10
George Creel
1876 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
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James Earle Fraser
1876 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Porter Hall
1888 – 1953 · Actors Oct 10
Charles Beyer
1893 – 1953 · Actors Nov 11
Henry Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein
1876 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Ivan Bunin
1870 – 1953 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
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Milt Gross
1895 – 1953 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Thelma Salter
1908 – 1953 · Actresses Nov 11
Thelma Salter
1908 – 1953 Nov 17
Eugene O’Neill
1888 – 1953 · Musicians and Composers Nov 27
Jorge Negrete
1911 – 1953 · Actors, Singer Dec 5
Morgan Wallace
1881 – 1953 · Actors Dec 12
Baldwin Cooke
1888 – 1953 · Actors Dec 12
Coit Albertson
1880 – 1953 · Actors Dec 12
Harold Bruce Callbeck Carruthers
1901 – 1953 · Actors Dec 12
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria
1899 – 1953 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 12
Robert Andrews Millikan
1868 – 1953 Dec 12
Snowy Baker
1884 – 1953 · Actors Dec 12
Don “Uncle Don” Carney
1896 – 1954 · Actors Jan 1
Ernest Benn
1875 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Ernest Benn
1875 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
James Francis Abbott
1872 – 1954 · Actors Jan 1
Lillian Rich
1900 – 1954 · Actresses Jan 1
Sydney Greenstreet
1879 – 1954 · Actors Jan 1
Thomas Elmer Braniff
1883 – 1954 Jan 1
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Thomas Elmer Braniff
1883 – 1954 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Francis Sumner
1895 – 1954 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 12
John Murray Anderson
1886 – 1954 · Actors, Authors and Writers, Director, Entertainers, Producer Jan 30
Edwin Howard Armstrong
1890 – 1954 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 31
Florence Bates
1888 – 1954 · Actresses Jan 31
Frederick Lewis Allen
1890 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Mabel Paige
1880 – 1954 · Actresses Feb 2
Maxwell Bodenheim
1892 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Nancy McIntosh
1866 – 1954 · Actresses Feb 2
Siegfried Breuer
1906 – 1954 · Actors Feb 2
Senda Berenson Abbott
1868 – 1954 · Athletes, Sports Figures Feb 16
Emily Fitzroy
1860 – 1954 · Actresses Mar 3
Joan Dowling
1928 – 1954 · Actresses Mar 3
John L. Balderston
1889 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Fritzi Scheff
1879 – 1954 · Actresses Apr 4
Juan Duval
1897 – 1954 · Actors Apr 4
Joe May
1880 – 1954 · Director, Film Director, Producer Apr 29
Alan Edwards
1892 – 1954 · Actors May 5
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Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
1871 – 1954 · Artists and Architects May 5
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Henri Laurens
1885 – 1954 · Artists and Architects May 5
Lionel Pretoria “Big Train” Conacher
1900 – 1954 · Native Americans May 5
Nita Pike
1913 – 1954 · Actresses May 5
Robert Capa
1913 – 1954 · Artists and Architects May 5
Russell Stover
1888 – 1954 · Business Magnates May 5
Walter Benjamin Ralphs
1854 – 1954 · Business Magnates May 5
Clemens Krauss
1893 – 1954 · Musicians and Composers May 16
Lionel Conacher
1900 – 1954 · Athletes, Politicians May 26
E. Ray Goetz
1886 – 1954 · Actors Jun 6
Maurice Cass
1884 – 1954 · Actors Jun 6
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Paul R. Braniff
1897 – 1954 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Alan Turing
1912 – 1954 · Scientists and Inventors Jun 7
Frida Kahlo
1907 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Frida Kahlo
1907 – 1954 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Frida Kahlo
1907 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Jacinto Benavente
1866 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Jacqueline Saunders
1892 – 1954 · Actresses Jul 7
Bennett Clark
1890 – 1954 · Politicians Jul 13
Irving Pichel
1891 – 1954 · Actors, Director Jul 13
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
1873 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Aug 3
Bess Streeter Aldrich
1881 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Bess Streeter Aldrich
1881 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Colette
1873 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Vera Sisson
1891 – 1954 · Actresses Aug 8
Terry Ramsaye
1885 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Aug 19
Eugene Pallette
1889 – 1954 Sep 3
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Harry Conway “Bud” Fisher
1885 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Harry Cording
1891 – 1954 · Actors Sep 9
Herbert William Hoover, Sr
1877 – 1954 Sep 9
Joel Friedkin
1885 – 1954 · Actors Sep 9
Kokichi Mikimoto
1858 – 1954 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Fred Biesel
1893 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
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Henry Mather Greene
1870 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Juan Chabás
1910 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
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Lewis Parsons Hobart
1873 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Simone Mareuil
1903 – 1954 · Actresses Oct 10
Henri Matisse
1869 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Nov 3
Butler Ames
1871 – 1954 · Politicians Nov 6
Edward Clark
1878 – 1954 · Actors Nov 11
Edward Coxen
1884 – 1954 · Actors Nov 11
Stig Dagerman
1923 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Lionel Barrymore
1878 – 1954 · Actors, Film Director, TV Director Nov 15
Enrico Fermi
1901 – 1954 · Scientists and Inventors Nov 28
Gladys George
1904 – 1954 · Actresses Dec 8
Dagmar Ebbesen
1891 – 1954 · Actresses Dec 12
Frank A. Barney
1862 – 1954 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Marie Ventura
1890 – 1954 · Actresses Dec 12
Ruth Selwyn
1905 – 1954 · Actresses Dec 12
James Hilton
1900 – 1954 · Authors and Writers Dec 20
Kathleen Key
1903 – 1954 · Actresses Dec 22
Claude Dampier
1879 – 1955 · Actors Jan 1
Claude Dampier
1879 – 1955 · Actors, Comedian Jan 1
Ernest C. Moore
1871 – 1955 Jan 1
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin
1892 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Gus Arnheim
1897 – 1955 · Actors Jan 19
Abigail “Tommye” Adams
1922 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
Betty Scott
1883 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
James H. Doyle
1872 – 1955 · Actors Feb 2
Trixie Friganza
1870 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 2
Vasili Blokhin
1895 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Feb 2
Ona Munson
1903 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 11
S.Z. Sakall
1883 – 1955 Feb 12
Abigail Adams
1922 – 1955 · Actresses Feb 13
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Kickham Scanlan
1864 – 1955 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
Miroslava Stern
1926 – 1955 · Actresses Mar 3
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Nicolas de Stael
1914 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Oscar F. Mayer
1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Tom Dugan
1884 – 1955 · Actors Mar 3
Alexander Fleming
1881 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Mar 11
Charlie Parker
1920 – 1955 · Musicians and Composers Mar 12
Michele Besso
1873 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Mar 15
Stefano Badami
1888 – 1955 · Gangster Mar 31
August Benziger
1867 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Sybille Schmitz
1909 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 4
Theda Bara
1885 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 7
Lillian Lorraine
1892 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 17
Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 18
Constance Collier
1878 – 1955 · Actresses Apr 25
William Sloper
1883 – 1955 · Victims of crime and disaster May 1
Alberto Ascari
1918 – 1955 · Sports Figures May 5
Andrés Eloy Blanco
1897 – 1955 · Authors and Writers May 5
Barbara Ray
1914 – 1955 · Actresses May 5
Douglas Blackley
1908 – 1955 · Actors May 5
Dr Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
1875 – 1955 May 5
James Agee
1909 – 1955 · Authors and Writers May 5
Mary Bertrand
1881 – 1955 · Actresses May 5
Richard “Skeets” Gallagher
1891 – 1955 · Actors May 5
Mary Bertrand
1871 – 1955 · Actresses May 12
Richard Gallagher
1891 – 1955 May 22
Bill Vukovich
1918 – 1955 · Athletes, Race Car Driver May 30
Barbara Graham
1923 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 3
Carlyle Blackwell
1884 – 1955 · Actors Jun 6
George Edwin Bergstrom
1876 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
Pattillo Higgins
1863 – 1955 Jun 6
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Sears Gallagher
1869 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
Walter Hampden
1880 – 1955 · Actors Jun 6
Harry August Jansen
1883 – 1955 · Entertainers, Magicians Jun 16
Harry Agganis
1929 – 1955 · Athletes, Sports Figures Jun 27
Beatrice Chase
1874 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
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Frank Hamer
1884 – 1955 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7
Myra Keaton
1877 – 1955 · Actresses Jul 7
Robert Francis
1930 – 1955 · Actors Jul 7
Ruth Ellis
1926 – 1955 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 7
Joaquín Pardavé
1900 – 1955 · Actors Jul 20
Lily Cahill
1889 – 1955 · Actors Jul 20
Myra Keaton
1877 – 1955 · Actresses Jul 21
Cordell Hull
1871 – 1955 · Politicians Jul 23
Syrie Maugham
1879 – 1955 · Designer Jul 25
Carmen Miranda
1909 – 1955 · Actresses, Entertainers, Singer Aug 5
Franklin Augustus “Frank” Seiberling
1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Lynne Carver
1916 – 1955 · Actresses Aug 8
Suzan Ball
1934 – 1955 · Actresses Aug 8
Willi Baumeister
1889 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Thomas Mann
1875 – 1955 · Authors and Writers, Celebrities Aug 12
Philip Loeb
1891 – 1955 · Actors Sep 1
Bernard Gorcey
1884 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
Edith Matthison
1871 – 1955 · Actresses Sep 9
Helen Richardson Dreiser
1894 – 1955 · Actresses Sep 9
Michael Chekhov
1891 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
Robert Y. Dudley
1869 – 1955 · Actors Sep 9
James Dean
1931 – 1955 · Actors, Celebrities Sep 30
Louis Thurstone
1887 – 1955 · Scientists and Inventors Sep 30
Alice Joyce
1890 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 9
Bernarr MacFadden
1868 – 1955 · Business Magnates Oct 10
Harry Chester Bedwell
1888 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Julius Ochs Adler
1892 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Oliver Clarence
1870 – 1955 · Actors Oct 10
Ora Carew
1893 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 10
Rita Carewe
1909 – 1955 · Actresses Oct 10
John Hodiak
1914 – 1955 · Actors Oct 19
Adelaide Johnson
1859 – 1955 · Business Magnates Nov 11
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Helen West Heller
1872 – 1955 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Lloyd Francis Bacon
1889 – 1955 · Entertainers Nov 11
William Nigh
1881 – 1955 · Actors Nov 27
Honus Wagner
1874 – 1955 · Athletes, Baseball Dec 6
Elspeth Dudgeon
1871 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
Gretchen Lederer
1891 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
Marguerite Lindsey
1882 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
Nana Bryant
1888 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
Nora Dorothy Bernard
1890 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 12
Nora Bernard
1890 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 14
Horace McCoy
1897 – 1955 · Authors and Writers Dec 15
Nana Bryant
1888 – 1955 · Actresses Dec 24
Charles Dingle
1887 – 1956 · Actors Jan 1
Louise Carver
1869 – 1956 · Actors Jan 1
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Lyonel Feininger
1871 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Nate Saint
1923 – 1956 · Victims of crime and disaster Jan 8
Roger Youderian
1924 – 1956 · Victims of crime and disaster Jan 8
Oskar Karlweis
1894 – 1956 · Actors Jan 24
Anne Bradshaw Clopton
1878 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Feb 2
Bob Burns
1890 – 1956 · Actors Feb 2
Charley Grapewin
1869 – 1956 · Actors Feb 2
Elsie Janis
1889 – 1956 · Actresses Feb 2
Peter Petrovich Konchalovsky
1876 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Feb 2
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Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
1878 – 1956 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2
Jack Guzik
1886 – 1956 · Gangster Feb 21
Hattie Carnegie
1880 – 1956 · Business Magnates Feb 22
Jack Dragna
1891 – 1956 · Gangster Feb 23
Elsie Janis
1889 – 1956 · Actresses Feb 26
Al Freeman
1883 – 1956 · Actors Mar 3
Daniel Cowan Jackling
1869 – 1956 Mar 3
Fred Allen
1894 – 1956 · Entertainers Mar 3
Louis Bromfield
1896 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Raymond Hoagland
1894 – 1956 Mar 3
Irène Joliot-Curie
1897 – 1956 · Politicians Mar 17
Lloyd Ingraham
1874 – 1956 · Actors Apr 4
Chester Clute
1891 – 1956 · Actors Apr 4
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Filippo De Pisis
1896 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Leo Spitz
1888 – 1956 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Margaret McWade
1872 – 1956 · Actresses Apr 4
Zilphia Horton
1910 – 1956 · Musicians and Composers Apr 11
Kathleen Howard
1884 – 1956 · Actresses, Comedian, Singer Apr 15
Edward Arnold
1890 – 1956 · Actors Apr 26
Albert Duquesne
1890 – 1956 · Actors May 5
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Ernest Martin Hennings
1886 – 1956 · Artists and Architects May 5
Harry Burnett “H.B.” Reese, Sr
1879 – 1956 · Business Magnates May 5
Sir Max Beerbohm
1872 – 1956 · Artists and Architects May 5
Sir Max Beerbohm
1872 – 1956 · Actors May 5
Louis Calhern
1895 – 1956 · Actors May 12
Louis Calhern
1895 – 1956 · Actors May 12
Jean Hersholt
1886 – 1956 · Actors Jun 2
Katherine Macdonald
1881 – 1956 · Actresses Jun 4
Photo
Gordon Conway
1894 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
Katherine MacDonald
1891 – 1956 · Actresses Jun 6
Margaret Wycherly
1881 – 1956 · Actresses Jun 6
Marie Laurencin
1883 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
Ralph Kuhner Morgan
1883 – 1956 · Business Magnates Jun 6
William Reaves Eason
1886 – 1956 · Actors Jun 6
Bob Sweikert
1926 – 1956 · Athletes, Race Car Driver Jun 17
Ronald Winans
1956 – 1956 · Gospel Music, Religious Figures, Singer Jun 30
Dr Gottfried Benn
1886 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Dr. Gottfried Benn
1886 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Herbert H. Franklin
1866 – 1956 Jul 7
Photo
John Tate Raulston
1868 – 1956 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7
Kasia Orzazewski
1888 – 1956 · Actresses Jul 7
Stanley Blystone
1894 – 1956 · Actors Jul 7
Bertolt Brecht
1898 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Emanuele Ronzoni, Sr
1870 – 1956 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Frances Heenan “Peaches” Browning
1910 – 1956 · Actresses Aug 8
Harry E. Aitken
1877 – 1956 · Entertainers Aug 8
Photo
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald
1890 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Carlos Bulosan
1913 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Florence Oakley
1881 – 1956 · Actresses Sep 9
Jack Ganzhorn
1881 – 1956 · Actors Sep 9
Jack Ganzhorn
1881 – 1956 · Actors Sep 19
Florence Oakley
1881 – 1956 · Actresses Sep 25
Faith Bacon
1910 – 1956 · Actresses Sep 26
William Edward Boeing
1881 – 1956 · Business Magnates, Scientists and Inventors Sep 28
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Clarence Birdseye
1886 – 1956 · Business Magnates Oct 10
Fanny Cossar
1865 – 1956 · Actresses Oct 10
Jeanne d’Alcy
1865 – 1956 · Actresses Oct 10
Marie Doro
1882 – 1956 · Actresses Oct 10
Pío Baroja
1872 – 1956 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Lawrence Dale Bell
1894 – 1956 · Business Magnates Oct 20
Victor Young
1900 – 1956 · Musicians and Composers Nov 10
Harry Ford Sinclair
1876 – 1956 · Business Magnates Nov 11
Hugo Ballin
1879 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Hugo Ballin
1879 – 1956 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Marshall Field, III
1893 – 1956 Nov 11
Tommy Dorsey
1905 – 1956 · Band Leader, Musicians and Composers Nov 26
Valda Valkyrien
1895 – 1956 · Actresses Dec 10
Huntley Gordon
1887 – 1956 · Actors Dec 12
Malcolm Lee Beggs
1907 – 1956 · Actors Dec 12
Mikheil Gelovani
1892 – 1956 · Actors Dec 12
Eddie Acuff
1903 – 1956 · Actors Dec 17
Ruth Draper
1884 – 1956 · Actresses Dec 30
Claire Waldoff
1884 – 1957 · Actresses, Entertainers, Singer Jan 1
Helene Costello
1906 – 1957 · Actresses Jan 1
Laura Oakley
1879 – 1957 · Actresses Jan 1
William Eythe
1918 – 1957 · Actors Jan 1
Edward James “Batty” Abbaticchio
1877 – 1957 · Athletes, Sports Figures Jan 6
Humphrey Bogart
1899 – 1957 · Actors Jan 14
Harry Lundeberg
1901 – 1957 · Social Reformers Jan 28
Laura Oakley
1879 – 1957 Jan 30
Frank Abbott
1878 – 1957 · Actors Feb 2
Jana Rybarova
1936 – 1957 · Actresses Feb 2
Marta Toren
1925 – 1957 · Actresses Feb 2
George Moran
1893 – 1957 · Gangster Feb 25
Charlotte Shelby
1877 – 1957 · Actresses Mar 3
Constantin Brancusi
1876 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
William Cameron Menzies
1896 – 1957 · Artists and Architects, Director, Producer Mar 5
Josephine Hull
1877 – 1957 · Actresses Mar 12
Eugenio Castellotti
1930 – 1957 · Race Car Driver Mar 14
Burton Abbott
1928 – 1957 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Mar 15
James Hines
1876 – 1957 · Gangster Mar 26
Belle Baker
1893 – 1957 · Actresses Apr 4
Dorothy Sebastian
1903 – 1957 · Actresses Apr 4
Elías Antúnez
1907 – 1957 · Sports Figures Apr 4
Max Asher
1885 – 1957 · Actors Apr 4
Pedro Infante
1917 – 1957 Apr 15
Johnny Torrio
1882 – 1957 · Gangster Apr 16
Lois Austin
1901 – 1957 · Actresses Apr 26
Dorothy Dale
1883 – 1957 · Actresses May 5
Herbert Butterfield
1895 – 1957 · Actors May 5
James de Rothschild
1878 – 1957 · Business Magnates May 5
John Brown
1904 – 1957 · Actors May 5
Photo
Robert Finkelhor
1899 – 1957 · Artists and Architects May 5
Robert Lawson
1892 – 1957 · Artists and Architects May 5
Soava Gallone
1880 – 1957 · Actresses May 5
Ezio Pinza
1892 – 1957 · Singer May 9
Prince Makonnen
1923 – 1957 · Royalty May 13
Eliot Ness
1903 – 1957 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 16
Soava Gallone
1880 – 1957 · Actresses May 30
Luisa Casati
1881 – 1957 · Socialite Jun 1
Photo
Charles Sumner Greene
1867 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
David Berman
1903 – 1957 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 6
Gyokudo Kawai
1873 – 1957 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Lola Greene Baldwin
1860 – 1957 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jun 6
Mary Hay Caldwell Hastings
1901 – 1957 · Actresses Jun 6
Paul Gerson
1871 – 1957 · Actors Jun 6
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
1895 – 1957 · Actresses Jun 6
Photo
Sosthenes Behn
1884 – 1957 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Frank Scalice
1893 – 1957 · Gangster Jun 17
Donald MacBride
1889 – 1957 · Actors Jun 21
Ted Oliver
1892 – 1957 · Actors Jun 30
Arthur Brown, Jr
1874 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Judy Tyler
1932 – 1957 · Actresses Jul 7
Sacha Guitry
1885 – 1957 · Actors Jul 7
Taylor Duncan
1877 – 1957 · Actors Jul 7
Grace Anna Coolidge
1879 – 1957 · Politicians, US First Ladies Jul 8
Edith Abbott
1876 – 1957 · Educators Jul 29
Oliver Hardy
1892 – 1957 · Actors, Comedian Aug 7
Photo
Alice Stebbins Wells
1873 – 1957 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Aug 8
Charles Lunsford Neville Buck
1879 – 1957 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Erville Alderson
1882 – 1957 · Actors Aug 8
Walter Philip Zeller
1890 – 1957 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Morris B. Sachs
1896 – 1957 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Photo
Pompeo Coppini
1870 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Jean Sibelius
1865 – 1957 · Celebrities, Musicians and Composers Sep 20
Artie Auerbach
1903 – 1957 · Actors Oct 10
Photo
Christian Dior
1905 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Erle Palmar Halliburton
1891 – 1957 Oct 10
Frederick Burton
1871 – 1957 · Actors Oct 10
Jack Buchanan
1891 – 1957 · Actors, Director, Producer, Theater Actor Oct 20
Albert Anastasia
1902 – 1957 · Gangster Oct 25
Louis B Mayer
1884 – 1957 · Business Magnates, Film Director Oct 29
Norm Ferguson
1902 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Nov 4
Billy Bevan
1887 – 1957 · Actors Nov 11
Charles Brabin
1882 – 1957 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Cora Witherspoon
1890 – 1957 · Actresses Nov 11
Raymond Griffith
1895 – 1957 · Actors Nov 11
Adrienne D’Ambricourt
1878 – 1957 · Actresses Dec 12
Adrienne D’Ambricourt
1878 – 1957 · Actresses Dec 12
Al Bridge
1891 – 1957 · Actors Dec 12
Arturo Barea
1897 – 1957 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Edna Hannam Marion Naisbitt
1906 – 1957 · Actresses Dec 12
Norma Talmadge
1895 – 1957 · Actresses Dec 12
Walter Stanley Campbell
1887 – 1957 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Photo
Óscar Domínguez
1906 – 1957 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Norma Talmadge
1895 – 1957 · Actresses Dec 24
Claude Gernade Bowers
1879 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Estelle Aubrey Brown
1877 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Griff Barnett
1884 – 1958 · Actors Jan 1
Hedwig Bleibtreu
1868 – 1958 · Actresses Jan 1
Margaret Anglin-Hull
1876 – 1958 · Actresses Jan 1
Photo
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
1869 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Margaret Anglin-Hull
1876 – 1958 · Actresses Jan 7
Edna Purviance
1895 – 1958 · Actresses Jan 11
Jesse Lasky
1880 – 1958 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Jan 13
Ward Lambert
1888 – 1958 · Basketball Jan 20
Hedwig Biebtreu
1868 – 1958 · Actresses Jan 24
Photo
Eugene Higgins
1874 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Feb 2
Helen Twelvetrees
1908 – 1958 · Actresses Feb 2
Marguerite Snow
1889 – 1958 · Actresses Feb 2
Monta Bell
1891 – 1958 · Entertainers Feb 2
Tala Birell
1907 – 1958 · Actresses Feb 2
Thurston Hall
1882 – 1958 · Actors Feb 2
Travis Banton
1894 – 1958 · Entertainers Feb 2
Lyda Southard
1892 – 1958 · Serial Killer Feb 5
Tala Birell
1907 – 1958 · Actresses Feb 17
Edith Taliaferro
1893 – 1958 Mar 2
Arde Bulova
1889 – 1958 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Art Cohn
1909 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Edith Taliaferro
1893 – 1958 · Actresses Mar 3
Photo
John Johnston Parker
1885 – 1958 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
Virginia Estelle Randolph
1874 – 1958 Mar 3
Charlotte Walker
1876 – 1958 · Actresses Mar 23
Albert Akst
1899 – 1958 · Entertainers Apr 4
Estelle Taylor
1899 – 1958 · Actresses Apr 4
Francis Boardman “Pistol Pete” Eaton
1860 – 1958 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Apr 4
Chuck Willis
1926 – 1958 · Singer, Song Writers Apr 10
Roger Imhof
1875 – 1958 · Actors Apr 15
Rosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 16
Alfred J. Delcambre
1909 – 1958 · Actors May 5
Bill Goodwin
1910 – 1958 · Actors May 5
Ronald Charles Colman
1891 – 1958 · Actors May 5
Ronald Colman
1891 – 1958 · Actors May 19
Gustl Waldau
1871 – 1958 · Actors May 25
Herman Hoffman Birney, Jr
1891 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Raoul Aslan
1886 – 1958 · Actors Jun 6
Robert Greig
1879 – 1958 · Actors Jun 6
Virginia Pearson
1886 – 1958 · Actresses Jun 6
Robert Donat
1905 – 1958 · Actors Jun 9
Photo
Dorothy Earle
1892 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 5
Alex Frazer
1900 – 1958 · Actors Jul 7
Photo
Frank Swift Chase
1886 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Frank Swift Chase
1886 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Photo
Kathleen Eileen Hooker Robinson
1922 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 7
Kathleen Eileen Hooker Robinson
1922 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 7
Mabel Ballin
1887 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 7
Paul Robert Ash
1891 – 1958 · Entertainers Jul 7
Raymond Hackett
1902 – 1958 · Actors Jul 7
Sofía Bozán
1904 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 7
Sofia Bozan
1904 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 9
Franklin Pangborn
1889 – 1958 · Actors Jul 20
Mabel Ballin
1887 – 1958 · Actresses Jul 24
Vivien Oakland
1895 – 1958 · Actresses Aug 1
Vivien Oakland
1895 – 1958 · Actresses Aug 1
Bonar Colleano
1924 – 1958 · Actors Aug 8
Brendan Bracken
1901 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Gordon Evans Dean
1905 – 1958 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Aug 8
Mary Beard
1876 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Walter R. Brooks
1886 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Paul Panzer
1872 – 1958 · Actors Aug 16
Priscilla Lawson
1914 – 1958 · Actresses, Model Aug 27
Dorthea Dahl
1881 – 1958 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Dr Norman G. Baker
1882 – 1958 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Sep 9
Alma Bennett
1904 – 1958 · Actresses Sep 16
Carl Brisson
1893 – 1958 · Actors Sep 25
Ida Wust
1884 – 1958 · Actresses Oct 10
John Hamilton
1887 – 1958 · Actors Oct 10
Roland Eli Coate
1890 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Marshall Neilan
1891 – 1958 · Actors, Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Oct 27
Photo
John Joseph “Johnny” Klevenhagen
1912 – 1958 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11
Vaughan Glaser
1872 – 1958 · Actors Nov 11
Tris Speaker
1888 – 1958 · Baseball Dec 8
Photo
Anthony Devas
1911 – 1958 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Earl B. Holley
1881 – 1958 Dec 12
Elizabeth Risdon
1887 – 1958 · Actresses Dec 12
Patricia “Boots” Mallory
1913 – 1958 · Actresses Dec 12
Tim Moore
1887 – 1958 · Actors Dec 13
Elisabeth Risdon
1887 – 1958 · Actresses Dec 20
Harry Wills
1889 – 1958 · Boxers Dec 21
Cecil B. DeMille
1881 – 1959 · Actors Jan 1
Claire Delmar
1901 – 1959 · Actresses Jan 1
Photo
Edvard Eriksen
1876 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Carl Switzer
1927 – 1959 · Actors, Victims of crime and disaster Jan 21
Kathryn Adams
1893 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 2
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
1873 – 1959 · Native Americans Feb 2
Maxwell Anderson
1888 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Meyer “Mike” Berger
1898 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Una O’Connor
1880 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 2
Photo
Vincent Astor
1891 – 1959 · Business Magnates Feb 2
William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan
1883 – 1959 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2
Buddy Holly
1936 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers, Singer Feb 3
Ritchie Valens
1941 – 1959 · Pop Artist, Rock & Roll, Singer, Song Writers Feb 3
Ritchie Valens
1941 – 1959 · Rock & Roll, Singer, Song Writers Feb 3
Nap Lajoie
1874 – 1959 · Baseball Feb 7
Erich Zeisl
1905 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Feb 18
George Archainbaud
1890 – 1959 · Director, Producer Feb 20
Helen Parrish
1924 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 22
Mack Gordon
1904 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Feb 28
Eric Blore
1887 – 1959 · Actors Mar 2
Eduardo Calvo
1896 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Lou Costello
1906 – 1959 · Actors, Comedian Mar 3
Raymond Chandler
1888 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Haydn Wood
1882 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Mar 11
Laura Scudder
1881 – 1959 · Business Magnates Mar 13
Michael Maggio
1889 – 1959 · Gangster Mar 14
Duncan Hines
1880 – 1959 · Authors and Writers, Business Magnates Mar 15
Olga Knipper
1868 – 1959 · Actresses Mar 22
Grant Withers
1904 – 1959 · Actors Mar 27
Johnny Thomas Allen
1905 – 1959 · Athletes, Sports Figures Mar 29
Cecil Cunningham
1888 – 1959 · Actresses Apr 4
Cecil Cunningham
1888 – 1959 · Actresses Apr 4
Charles Halton
1876 – 1959 · Actors Apr 4
George “Little George” Amick
1924 – 1959 · Sports Figures Apr 4
Irving Cummings
1888 – 1959 · Actors, Authors and Writers, Director, Producer Apr 4
James Gleason
1882 – 1959 · Actors Apr 4
Pierrepont Burt Noyes
1870 – 1959 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Alfred Steele
1900 – 1959 · Business Magnates, Relatives Of Notable Apr 19
Ernestine Costa
1900 – 1959 · Actors May 5
George Chesebro
1888 – 1959 · Actors May 5
Olga “Hesperia” Mambelli
1885 – 1959 · Actresses May 5
Paul Byron
1888 – 1959 · Actors May 5
Lyda Borelli
1884 – 1959 · Actresses Jun 2
James “Jimmie” Grier
1902 – 1959 · Actors Jun 6
Joseph M. Barbara, Sr
1905 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 6
Lyda Borelli
1884 – 1959 · Actresses Jun 6
George Reeves
1914 – 1959 · Actors Jun 16
Joseph Barbara
1905 – 1959 · Gangster Jun 17
Ethel Barrymore
1879 – 1959 · Actresses Jun 18
Boris Vian
1920 – 1959 · Actors, Authors and Writers, Musicians and Composers, Poet, Scientists and Inventors, Singer Jun 23
Charles Starkweather
1938 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 25
Angel Vargas
1904 – 1959 · Blues Singer Jul 7
Photo
George Grosz
1893 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Manuel Altolaguirre
1905 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Photo
Michael Late Benedum
1869 – 1959 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Morrie Arnovich
1910 – 1959 · Sports Figures Jul 7
Billie Holiday
1915 – 1959 · Blues Singer, Singer Jul 17
Photo
Jacob Epstein
1880 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Edmund Gwenn
1877 – 1959 · Actors Sep 6
Kay Kendall
1927 – 1959 · Actresses Sep 6
Adrian
1903 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Dr Abraham Flexner
1866 – 1959 Sep 9
Photo
Gerard Hoffnung
1925 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Helen Broderick
1891 – 1959 · Actresses Sep 9
Paul Douglas
1907 – 1959 · Actors Sep 11
Harvey Glatman
1927 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Sep 18
Helen Broderick
1891 – 1959 · Actresses Sep 25
Taylor Holmes
1878 – 1959 · Actors Sep 30
William Bishop
1918 – 1959 · Actors Oct 3
Mario Lanza
1921 – 1959 · Actors, Singer Oct 7
Olive Blakeney
1894 – 1959 · Actresses Oct 21
Edith Clarke
1883 – 1959 · Educators, Social Reformers Oct 29
Frank Abbatemarco
1899 – 1959 · Gangster Nov 4
Arthur Q. Bryan
1899 – 1959 · Actors Nov 11
Photo
Francis de Erdely
1904 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Photo
John Randolph Neal
1876 – 1959 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11
Sylvia Lopez
1933 – 1959 · Actresses Nov 11
Manuel Paris
1894 – 1959 · Actors Nov 19
Max Baer
1909 – 1959 · Boxers Nov 21
Frank O’Connor
1881 – 1959 · Actors Nov 22
Gerard Philipe
1922 – 1959 · Actors Nov 25
Tony Canzoneri
1908 – 1959 · Boxers Dec 9
Charlie Hall
1899 – 1959 · Actors Dec 12
Constance G. Lupino
1892 – 1959 · Actresses Dec 12
Rosetta Duncan
1894 – 1959 · Actresses Dec 12
Russell Simpson
1880 – 1959 · Actors Dec 12
Alfonso Reyes
1889 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Dec 27
Bigelow Cooper
1867 – 1953 · Actors
Ernest Alfred Benians
1880 – 1952
Frederick D. Schnell
1870 – 1951 · Business Magnates
Photo
Grace Gassette
1871 – 1955 · Artists and Architects
Joseph C. Carroll
1886 – 1951 · Authors and Writers
Lillian Brennard Tonge
1870 – 1952 · Actresses
Motoko Hani
1873 – 1957
Royal Cutter
1874 – 1955 · Actors
Toshiki Sano
1880 – 1956

Celebrity Deaths in the 1950s

Alan Hale

Henry Franklin Lawrence

Monty Banks

Seiichi Hatano

Tess Gardella

Joseph Schumpeter

George Orwell

Alan Hale

Henry Branch “Hank” Bell

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ellis Gimbel

Frank Buck

Jim Corey

Sid Grauman

Marguerite de La Motte

Charles Emile Heil

Frances Ford Seymour

Generoso Pope, Sr

Muriel Starr

Hobart Cavanaugh

Warren Jackson

C. Graham Baker

Jane Cowl

William-Henry Atherton

Helen Holmes

Evangeline Booth

Zeffie Tilbury

Guido Deiro

Frank Faucett Phillips

Madeline Grey

Ransom Eli Olds

Black Elk

Cesare Pavese

Symona Boniface

Flora Parker

Max Davidson

Ralph Lawrence Carr

Symona Boniface

Sara Allgood

John Fitzgerald

George Hainsworth

John Jakob Raskob

Willis Haviland Carrier

Edwin Sutherland

Christy Cabanne

William Christy Cabanne

Al Jolson

Maurice Costello

Leslie Coffelt

Grover Cleveland Alexander

Betty Francisco

Grover Cleveland “Pete” Alexander

Leslie William Coffelt

Walter Herschel Beech

Arthur Davidson

Belle Stoddard

Evelyn Selbie

Herbert Marcus

Blanche “Bonnie” Earle

Dr Ferdinand Porsche

Maxwell Wilbur Becton

May Foster

Sinclair Lewis

Blanche Earle

Ferdinand Porsche

Gizi Bajor

Martina Von Trapp Dupire

Eddy Duchin

Tomasso Gagliano

Charles Pearce Coleman

Charles Peyton Glocker

Dorothy Olson

Tex Cooper

Val Lewton

Charles Keck

Jules Berry

Philip Mangano

George Lovington “Sassafrass” Winter

Hermann Broch