Celebrity Deaths in the 1970s

1325 notable figures died in the 1970s. Listed below in order of date of death.

Bas Jan Ader
1942 – 1975 · Artists and Architects
Buttermilk
1941 – 1972 · Actors
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Frank Vincent Brach
1890 – 1970 · Business Magnates
George M. Humphrey
1890 – 1970
Heenan Elliott
1892 – 1970 · Actors
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Heihachiro Fukuda
1892 – 1974 · Artists and Architects
Ichiro Ishikawa
1886 – 1970
James Edwards
1918 – 1970 · Actors
Julie Suedo
1901 – 1978 · Actresses
Lawren Harris
1885 – 1970 · Artists and Architects
Maurice Gauvin
1913 – 1971 · Actors
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Pancho Cossío
1894 – 1970 · Artists and Architects
Robert Harriot Barrat
1889 – 1970 · Actors
Robert Mantle Rattenbury
1902 – 1970
Shigeru Nanbara
1889 – 1974
Teddy Burns Goulet
1897 – 1970 · Actors
William Thomas Piper, Sr
1881 – 1970 · Business Magnates
Max Born
1882 – 1970 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 5
Robert Barrat
1889 – 1970 · Actors Jan 7
Pavel I. Belyayev
1925 – 1970 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 10
Betty Ross Clarke
1892 – 1970 · Actresses Jan 24
Malcolm Keen
1887 – 1970 · Actors Jan 30
Abraham Washington “Abe” Attell
1884 – 1970 · Sports Figures Feb 2
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970 · Politicians Feb 2
David Frisch
1902 – 1970 Feb 2
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1888 – 1970 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Tatzumbie DuPea
1849 – 1970 · Actresses Feb 2
Jay Eaton
1899 – 1970 · Actors Feb 5
Edward Selzer
1893 – 1970 · Movie/TV Producer Feb 22
Conrad Nagel
1897 – 1970 · Actors Feb 24
Vera Brittain
1893 – 1970 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
William “One-Shot” Beaudine
1892 – 1970 · Entertainers Mar 3
Peter Godfrey
1899 – 1970 · Actors, Director Mar 4
William Hopper
1915 – 1970 · Actors Mar 6
Alec Clunes
1912 – 1970 · Actors Mar 13
Tammi Terrell
1945 – 1970 · Singer Mar 16
William Beaudine
1892 – 1970 · Actors, Director, Film Director Mar 18
Del Lord
1894 – 1970 · Film Director Mar 23
Patricia Ellis
1916 – 1970 · Actresses, Singer Mar 26
Cathy O’Donnell
1923 – 1970 · Actresses Apr 4
Ed Begley, Sr
1901 – 1970 · Actors Apr 4
Marda Vanne
1896 – 1970 · Actresses Apr 4
Max Bozyk
1899 – 1970 · Actors Apr 4
Paul Celan
1920 – 1970 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
William “1st Baron Strathalmond” Fraser
1888 – 1970 Apr 4
David Mountbatten
1919 – 1970 · Relatives Of Notable Apr 14
Anita Louise
1915 – 1970 · Actresses Apr 25
Gypsy Rose Lee
1911 – 1970 · Entertainers, Sex Goddess Apr 26
Inger Stevens
1934 – 1970 · Actresses Apr 30
Charles E. Fredericks
1918 – 1970 · Actors May 5
Kenneth L. Kling
1895 – 1970 · Artists and Architects May 5
Martin Branner
1888 – 1970 · Artists and Architects May 5
Nigel Balchin
1908 – 1970 · Authors and Writers May 5
Nydia Westman
1902 – 1970 · Actresses May 5
Mari Blanchard
1927 – 1970 · Actresses May 10
Mari Blanchard
1927 – 1970 · Actresses May 10
Johnny Hodges
1907 – 1970 · Musicians and Composers May 11
Billie Burke
1884 – 1970 · Actresses May 14
Delia Akeley
1869 – 1970 · Explorers and Adventurers May 22
Arkle
1957 – 1970 · Animals, Athletes, Sports Figures May 31
Terry Sawchuk
1929 – 1970 · Hockey May 31
Mitzi Hajos
1891 – 1970 · Actresses Jun 1
Sonny Tufts
1911 – 1970 · Actors, Singer Jun 4
Frank Charles Laubach
1884 – 1970 Jun 6
Geraldine Wall
1912 – 1970 · Actresses Jun 6
Mitzi Hajos
1889 – 1970 · Actresses Jun 6
Prudencia Grifell
1876 – 1970 · Actresses Jun 6
Sukarno
1901 – 1970 · Politicians Jun 21
Marjorie Rambeau
1889 – 1970 · Actresses Jul 6
Martha Bamattre
1891 – 1970 · Actresses Jul 7
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Matthew James Boylen
1907 – 1970 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Robb Hansell Sagendorph
1900 – 1970 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Sigrid Holmquist
1899 – 1970 · Actresses Jul 7
Martha Bamattre
1891 – 1970 · Actresses Jul 12
Roger Edens
1905 – 1970 · Musicians and Composers Jul 13
Preston Foster
1900 – 1970 · Actors, Singer Jul 14
Juano Hernandez
1896 – 1970 · Actors Jul 17
Leith Stevens
1909 – 1970 · Musicians and Composers Jul 23
Beatrice Roberts
1905 – 1970 · Actresses Jul 24
Claud Allister
1888 – 1970 · Actors, Celebrities Jul 26
Frances Farmer
1913 – 1970 · Actresses Aug 1
Frances Farmer
1913 – 1970 · Actresses Aug 1
Otto Hardwick
1904 – 1970 · Musicians and Composers Aug 5
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Alfred Warner Hair, Sr.
1918 – 1970 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Beniamino Benevento Bufano
1890 – 1970 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Mickey Daniels
1914 – 1970 · Actors Aug 8
Mickey Daniels, Jr
1914 – 1970 · Actors Aug 8
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Neville Blond
1896 – 1970 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Steve Darrell
1904 – 1970 · Actors Aug 8
Dan Mitrione
1920 – 1970 · Victims of crime and disaster Aug 10
Soledad Miranda
1943 – 1970 · Actresses Aug 18
Mary Clare Absalom
1892 – 1970 · Actresses Aug 29
William H. Abendroth
1895 – 1970 · Military Figures Sep 3
Geraldine Hall
1905 – 1970 · Actresses Sep 9
Jimi Hendrix
1942 – 1970 · Artists and Architects, Musicians and Composers Sep 18
Edna Gellhorn
1878 – 1970 · Social Reformers, Suffragists Sep 25
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1918 – 1970 · Politicians Sep 28
Edward Everett Horton
1886 – 1970 · Actors Sep 29
Janis Joplin
1943 – 1970 · Rock & Roll, Singer Oct 4
Carl W Ackerman
1890 – 1970 · Authors and Writers, Educators Oct 9
Carl William Ackerman
1890 – 1970 · Educators Oct 10
Dorothy Vernon
1875 – 1970 · Actresses Oct 10
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Harry Clifton Byrd
1889 – 1970 Oct 10
Henry Garcia
1903 – 1970 · Actors Oct 10
Jean De Briac
1891 – 1970 · Actors Oct 10
Luchy Soto
1919 – 1970 · Actresses Oct 10
Virginia B. Bronson Leiber
1885 – 1970 · Actresses Oct 10
Marda Vanne
1896 – 1970 · Actresses Oct 11
Vola Vale
1897 – 1970 · Actresses, Model Oct 17
Ted Lewis
1893 – 1970 · Boxers Oct 20
Ernest Haller
1896 – 1970 · Producer Oct 21
John Scopes
1900 – 1970 · Educators Oct 21
Aubrey Bodine
1906 – 1970 · American journalist, Artists and Architects, Photographer Oct 28
Agustín Lara
1897 – 1970 · Musicians and Composers Nov 6
Charles de Gaulle
1890 – 1970 · Politicians, President Nov 9
Fay Babcock
1895 – 1970 · Entertainers Nov 11
Hertha Feiler
1916 – 1970 · Actresses Nov 11
Louis Rich
1896 – 1970 · Business Magnates Nov 11
Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970 Nov 11
Spencer Dewey Adams
1898 – 1970 · Baseball, Sports Figures Nov 11
Teddy Sampson
1898 – 1970 · Actresses Nov 11
Naunton Wayne
1901 – 1970 · Actors Nov 17
Teddy Sampson
1898 – 1970 · Actresses Nov 24
Ivy Andrews
1907 – 1970 · Sports Figures Nov 24
Louise Glaum
1888 – 1970 · Actresses Nov 25
Yukio Mishima
1925 – 1970 · Actors, Celebrities, Film Director, Model Nov 25
Carolyn Craig
1934 – 1970 · Actresses Dec 12
Lenore Ulric
1892 – 1970 · Actresses Dec 12
Romaine Brooks
1874 – 1970 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
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Rube Goldberg
1883 – 1970 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Willa Pearl Curtis
1896 – 1970 · Actresses Dec 12
Charlie Ruggles
1886 – 1970 · Actors Dec 23
Lenore Ulric
1892 – 1970 · Actresses Dec 30
Sonny Liston
1932 – 1970 · Boxers Dec 30
Charles Colean
1907 – 1971 · Actors Jan 1
Clara Theresa Sproat Glenn
1897 – 1971 · Astronaut Jan 1
Frank J. Callier
1883 – 1971 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel
1883 – 1971 Jan 1
Gilbert M. “Bronco Billy” Anderson
1882 – 1971 · Actors Jan 1
Harry F. Guggenheim
1890 – 1971 Jan 1
Marshall Bradford
1885 – 1971 · Actors Jan 1
Minnie Wideman
1889 – 1971 · Actresses Jan 1
Roger Wolcott Jessup
1889 – 1971 Jan 1
John Dall
1918 – 1971 Jan 15
John Dall
1920 – 1971 · Actors Jan 15
Gilbert Anderson
1882 – 1971 · Actors Jan 20
Henri Deyglun
1903 – 1971 · Actors Feb 2
James Cash Penney, Jr
1875 – 1971 · Business Magnates Feb 2
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Theresa E. “Tessie” McNamara
1892 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2
Tilla Durieux
1880 – 1971 · Actresses Feb 2
Arne Jacobsen
1902 – 1971 · Artists and Architects, Business Magnates Mar 3
Borden Chase
1900 – 1971 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Rockwell Kent
1882 – 1971 · Artists and Architects, Authors and Writers, Business Magnates Mar 3
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Ronald William Hughes
1935 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
Roy E. Glenn, Sr
1914 – 1971 · Actors Mar 3
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Sherman Mills Fairchild
1896 – 1971 Mar 3
Walter William Ralphs, Sr
1884 – 1971 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Winnie Lightner
1899 – 1971 · Actresses, Singer Mar 5
T. Nash Buckingham
1880 – 1971 · Authors and Writers Mar 10
Roxwell Kent
1882 – 1971 · Artists and Architects Mar 13
Bebe Daniels
1901 – 1971 · Actresses Mar 16
Nella Walker
1886 – 1971 · Actresses Mar 22
Basil Dearden
1911 – 1971 · Director, Film Director Mar 23
Manyi Kiss
1911 – 1971 · Actresses Mar 29
Bartlett A. Carre
1897 – 1971 · Actors Apr 4
John Francis Bunny
1894 – 1971 · Actors Apr 4
Orestes Caviglia
1893 – 1971 · Actors Apr 4
TV Soong
1893 – 1971 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Igor Stravinsky
1882 – 1971 · Celebrities, Musicians and Composers Apr 6
Edmund Lowe
1890 – 1971 · Actors Apr 21
Lennie Hayton
1908 – 1971 · Musicians and Composers Apr 24
John Tansey
1901 – 1971 · Actors Apr 28
Glenda Farrell
1904 – 1971 · Actresses May 1
Lyle Barton
1889 – 1971 · Actresses May 2
Dot Farley
1881 – 1971 · Actresses May 5
Edith Day
1896 – 1971 · Actresses May 5
Edith Hallor Dillon
1896 – 1971 · Actresses May 5
Edward G. Budd, Jr
1902 – 1971 · Business Magnates May 5
Helene Weigel-Brecht
1900 – 1971 · Actresses May 5
Lyle Barton
1889 – 1971 · Actresses May 5
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Rayner Goddard
1877 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5
Ruth Royce
1893 – 1971 · Actresses May 7
Chips Rafferty
1909 – 1971 · Actors May 27
Audie Murphy
1924 – 1971 · Actors, Country Music May 28
Jerome Franks
1908 – 1971 · Actors Jun 6
Jerome Irving Rodale
1898 – 1971 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Leo Burnett
1891 – 1971 Jun 6
Leo Burnett
1891 – 1971 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Virginia True Boardman
1889 – 1971 · Actresses Jun 6
Virginia Boardman
1889 – 1971 · Actresses Jun 10
Libby Holman
1904 – 1971 · Actresses, Singer Jun 18
Thomas Gomez
1905 – 1971 · Actors Jun 18
Herbert Biberman
1900 – 1971 · Director, Film Director Jun 30
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev
1933 – 1971 · Astronaut Jun 30
Vladislav Volkov
1935 – 1971 · Astronaut Jun 30
Jim Morrison
1943 – 1971 · Actors, Celebrities, Singer Jul 3
Louis Armstrong
1901 – 1971 · Actors, Celebrities, Musicians, Singer Jul 6
Arthur Milo Fleming
1888 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7
Christl Mardayn
1896 – 1971 · Actresses Jul 7
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards
1895 – 1971 · Actors Jul 7
Julia Caesar
1885 – 1971 · Actresses Jul 7
Renie Riano
1899 – 1971 · Actresses Jul 7
Ub Iwerks
1901 – 1971 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Carleton G. Young
1907 – 1971 · Actors, Entertainers Jul 11
Bill Thompson
1913 – 1971 · Actors Jul 15
Van Heflin
1908 – 1971 · Actors Jul 23
Diane Arbus
1923 – 1971 · Artists and Architects Jul 26
Martha Wise
1882 – 1971 · Serial Killer Jul 28
Joe Cesare Colombo
1930 – 1971 · Artists and Architects Jul 30
Assault
1943 – 1971 · Animals, Athletes, Sports Figures Aug 2
Fausto Cleva
1902 – 1971 · Musicians and Composers Aug 6
Henry Haynes
1920 – 1971 · Country Music Aug 7
Adele Rowland
1883 – 1971 · Actresses Aug 8
Bennett Cerf
1898 – 1971 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Frances Robinson
1916 – 1971 · Actresses Aug 8
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Hiroshi Okawa
1896 – 1971 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Leslie Kong
1933 – 1971 · Music Producer Aug 9
Louis Armand
1905 – 1971 · Military Figures, Politicians, Scientists and Inventors Aug 30
David Street
1917 – 1971 · Actors Sep 3
Spring Byington
1886 – 1971 · Actresses Sep 7
Spring Byington
1886 – 1971 · Actresses Sep 7
Billy Gilbert
1894 – 1971 · Actors Sep 9
Charles Edward Bull
1881 – 1971 · Actors Sep 9
Pier Angeli
1932 – 1971 · Actresses Sep 10
Pier Angeli
1932 – 1971 · Actresses Sep 10
Bella Darvi
1928 – 1971 · Actresses Sep 11
Nikita Khrushchev
1894 – 1971 · Politicians Sep 11
Lin Biao
1907 – 1971 · Military Figures Sep 13
William F. Albright
1891 – 1971 · Authors and Writers, Educators, Scientists and Inventors Sep 19
Hugo Lafayette Black
1886 – 1971 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Sep 25
Leah Baird
1883 – 1971 · Actresses Oct 3
Leah Baird
1883 – 1971 · Actresses Oct 10
Raymond Hatton
1887 – 1971 · Actresses Oct 10
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Sam Morris Russell
1889 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10
William Arnold “Billy” Costello
1898 – 1971 · Actors Oct 10
Chester Conklin
1886 – 1971 · Actors, Comedian Oct 11
Betty Bronson
1906 – 1971 · Actresses Oct 19
Cheryl Walker
1918 – 1971 · Actresses, Model Oct 24
Duane Allman
1946 – 1971 · Musicians and Composers, Rock & Roll Oct 29
Mack Ray Edwards
1918 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 30
Maude Fealy
1883 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 9
Anne O’Neal
1893 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 11
Charlie Dale
1881 – 1971 · Actors Nov 11
Gladys Cooper
1888 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 11
Josephine Dillon
1884 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 11
Kyosuke Kindaichi
1882 – 1971 Nov 11
Martha Vickers
1925 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 11
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel
1903 – 1971 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Nov 11
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
1909 – 1971 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Paul Klinger
1907 – 1971 · Actors Nov 14
Edie Sedgwick
1943 – 1971 · Actresses, Model, Socialite Nov 16
Gladys Cooper
1888 – 1971 · Actresses Nov 17
Walter Sande
1906 – 1971 · Actors Nov 22
Joe Adonis
1902 – 1971 · Gangster Nov 26
Al Ferguson
1888 – 1971 · Actors Dec 12
David Sarnoff
1891 – 1971 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Diana Lynn
1926 – 1971 · Actresses Dec 12
Dita Parlo
1906 – 1971 · Actresses Dec 12
Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans
1913 – 1971 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Jake Ehrlich
1900 – 1971 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Dec 12
Marin Turcott
1890 – 1971 · Actresses Dec 12
Maurice James “Mac” McDonald
1902 – 1971 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Peter Duel
1940 – 1971 · Actors Dec 12
Renee Evans
1908 – 1971 · Actresses Dec 12
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Sergei Timofeevich Konenkov
1874 – 1971 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Dick Tiger
1929 – 1971 · Boxers Dec 14
Bobby Jones
1902 – 1971 · Golfer Dec 18
Robert Lowery
1913 – 1971 · Actors Dec 26
Max Steiner
1888 – 1971 · Musicians and Composers Dec 28
Dorothy Comingore
1913 – 1971 · Actresses Dec 30
Pete Duel
1940 – 1971 · Actors Dec 31
Chargesheimer
1924 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
John Allyn Berryman
1914 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
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Manuel González Martí
1877 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Padraic Colum
1881 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Robert Samuel “Sam” McLaughlin
1871 – 1972 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Ross “David Seville” Bagdasarian Sr.
1919 – 1972 · Entertainers Jan 1
Lillian Gilbreth
1878 – 1972 · Scientists and Inventors Jan 2
Wesley Ruggles
1889 – 1972 · Film Director Jan 8
Rochelle Hudson
1916 – 1972 · Actresses Jan 17
Jerome Cowan
1897 – 1972 · Actors Jan 24
Jessie Landis
1896 – 1972 · Actresses Feb 2
Jessie Royce Landis
1896 – 1972 · Actresses Feb 2
Merle Norman
1887 – 1972 · Business Magnates Feb 2
John Litel
1892 – 1972 · Actors Feb 3
Kenne Duncan
1903 – 1972 · Actors Feb 5
Walter Lang
1896 – 1972 · Actors Feb 7
Pat Brady
1914 – 1972 · Actors Feb 27
Cristóbal Balenciaga
1895 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Kiyotaka Kaburagi
1878 – 1972 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Kiyotaka Kaburagi
1878 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
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M. C. Escher
1898 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Oberdan Sallustro
1915 – 1972 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Fredric Brown
1906 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Mar 11
Marilyn Maxwell
1921 – 1972 · Actors Mar 20
Meena Kumari
1932 – 1972 · Actresses, Poet Mar 31
Betty Blythe
1893 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 4
C. W. Ceram
1915 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
Hodding Carter
1907 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval
1885 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Natalie Clifford Barney
1876 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
Pedro Bas Codina
1899 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Isabel Jewell
1907 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 5
Brian Donlevy
1901 – 1972 · Actors Apr 5
Isabel Jewell
1907 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 5
Betty Blythe
1893 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 7
Joey Gallo
1929 – 1972 · Gangster Apr 7
James Francis Byrnes
1882 – 1972 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Apr 9
Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972 · Politicians Apr 27
Gia Scala
1934 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 30
Gia Scala
1934 – 1972 · Actresses Apr 30
Bruce Cabot
1904 – 1972 · Actors May 3
Billy Gene Baulch, Jr
1955 – 1972 · Victims of crime and disaster May 5
Dame Margaret Rutherford
1892 – 1972 · Actresses May 5
Dan Blocker
1928 – 1972 · Actors May 5
Francisco Bores
1898 – 1972 · Artists and Architects May 5
Frank Tashlin
1913 – 1972 · Artists and Architects, Director, Film Director May 5
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John Edgar Hoover
1895 – 1972 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5
Johnny Dugan
1919 – 1972 · Actors May 5
José María Contursi
1911 – 1972 · Authors and Writers May 5
Kenneth MacDonald
1901 – 1972 · Actors May 5
Steve Ihnat
1934 – 1972 · Actors May 12
Nigel Green
1924 – 1972 · Actors May 15
Cecil Day-Lewis
1904 – 1972 · Authors and Writers, Poet May 22
Asta Nielsen
1881 – 1972 · Actresses May 24
Edward VIII
1894 – 1972 · Royalty May 28
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
1894 – 1972 · Relatives Of Notable, Royalty May 28
Evelyn Duncan
1893 – 1972 · Actresses Jun 6
Gale Henry
1893 – 1972 · Actresses Jun 6
Howard Johnson
1897 – 1972 Jun 6
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Walter Augustus Huxman
1887 – 1972 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jun 6
Günther Simon
1925 – 1972 · Actors Jun 25
Brandon deWilde
1942 – 1972 · Actors Jul 7
Max Aub
1903 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
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Max Bell
1912 – 1972 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Mieczyslawa Trapszo Cwiklinska
1879 – 1972 · Actresses Jul 7
Irene Purcell
1896 – 1972 · Actresses, Comedian, Theater Actor Jul 9
Thomas Eboli
1911 – 1972 · Gangster Jul 16
Sally Benson
1897 – 1972 · Authors and Writers Jul 19
Lance Reventlow
1936 – 1972 · Race Car Driver Jul 24
Allen Ellender
1890 – 1972 · Politicians, Senator Jul 27
Joi Lansing
1928 – 1972 · Actresses, Model Aug 7
Tom Neal
1914 – 1972 · Actors Aug 7
Edna Morris
1906 – 1972 · Actresses Aug 8
Lale Andersen
1905 – 1972 · Actresses Aug 8
Pierre Brasseur
1905 – 1972 · Actors Aug 8
Serge Deyglun
1929 – 1972 · Actors Aug 8
William Thomas Grant
1876 – 1972 Aug 8
Lale Andersen
1905 – 1972 · Actresses Aug 29
Berta Gersten
1894 – 1972 · Actors Sep 9
Hetty King
1883 – 1972 · Actresses Sep 9
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Max Fleischer
1883 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
William Boyd
1895 – 1972 · Actors Sep 12
Lane Chandler
1899 – 1972 · Actors Sep 14
Akim Tamiroff
1899 – 1972 · Actors Sep 17
Akim Tamiroff
1899 – 1972 · Actors Sep 17
Winifred Emms
1883 – 1972 · Actresses Sep 28
Edgar Ulmer
1904 – 1972 · Film Director Sep 30
Miriam Hopkins
1902 – 1972 · Actresses Oct 9
Claire Windsor
1892 – 1972 · Actresses Oct 10
Leo G. Carroll
1886 – 1972 · Actors Oct 10
Leo Carroll
1886 – 1972 · Actors Oct 16
Turk Broda
1914 – 1972 · Hockey Oct 17
Esma Cannon
1905 – 1972 · Actresses Oct 18
Jackie Robinson
1919 – 1972 · Athletes, Baseball Oct 24
Norman Norell
1900 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Oct 25
Mitchell Leisen
1898 – 1972 · Director Oct 28
Bill Durnan
1916 – 1972 · Hockey Oct 31
Ezra Pound
1885 – 1972 · Celebrities, Musicians and Composers Nov 1
Reginald Owen
1887 – 1972 · Actors Nov 5
Tod Andrews
1914 – 1972 · Actors Nov 7
Alexis Davidoff
1893 – 1972 · Actors Nov 11
Alfred “Fred” Parent
1875 – 1972 · Native Americans Nov 11
Eve Southern
1900 – 1972 · Actresses Nov 11
Jennie Grossinger
1892 – 1972 Nov 11
Rafael Bardem
1889 – 1972 · Actors Nov 11
Robyna Neilson Ketchum
1901 – 1972 · Actresses Nov 11
Tod Andrews
1914 – 1972 · Actors Nov 11
Bernard Nedell
1893 – 1972 · Actors Nov 23
Marie Wilson
1916 – 1972 · Actresses Nov 23
Carl Stalling
1891 – 1972 · Musicians and Composers Nov 29
Janet Munro
1934 – 1972 · Actresses Dec 6
Mary Bear
1910 – 1972 · Actresses Dec 9
James Nicholson
1916 – 1972 · Producer Dec 10
Charles Atlas
1892 – 1972 · Sports Figures Dec 12
Edit Domjan
1932 – 1972 · Actresses Dec 12
Horace Mann Bond
1904 – 1972 Dec 12
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Joseph Cornell
1903 – 1972 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Mary Bear
1910 – 1972 · Actresses Dec 12
Gabby Hartnett
1900 – 1972 · Athletes, Baseball Dec 20
Harry S. Truman
1884 – 1972 · Business Magnates, Politicians Dec 26
Harry Truman
1884 – 1972 · President, US Presidents and Vice Presidents Dec 26
Bambi Allen
1938 – 1973 · Actresses Jan 1
Coleman C. Francis
1919 – 1973 · Actors Jan 1
Iva Shepard
1886 – 1973 · Actresses Jan 1
John Banner
1910 – 1973 · Actors Jan 1
Lucie De Vienne
1902 – 1973 · Actresses Jan 1
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 – 1973 · Politicians Jan 22
J. Carrol Naish
1896 – 1973 · Actors Jan 24
Joseph Naish
1896 – 1973 · Actors Jan 24
Edward Robinson
1893 – 1973 · Actors Jan 26
Charles Stewart Mott
1875 – 1973 · Business Magnates Feb 2
Elizabeth Bowen
1899 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Maurice Dallimore
1912 – 1973 · Actors Feb 2
Andy Razaf
1895 – 1973 · Musicians and Composers, Poet Feb 3
Tim Holt
1919 – 1973 · Actors Feb 15
Wally Cox
1924 – 1973 · Actors, Comedian Feb 15
Charles Mott
1875 – 1973 · Philanthropists, Politicians Feb 18
Frank Costello
1891 – 1973 · Gangster Feb 18
Maurice Dallimore
1912 – 1973 Feb 20
Katina Paxinou
1900 – 1973 · Actresses Feb 22
Alice Hollister
1886 – 1973 · Actresses Feb 24
Cecil Kellaway
1890 – 1973 · Actors Feb 28
Cleo Noel
1918 – 1973 · Victims of crime and disaster Mar 2
Billy Dix
1911 – 1973 · Actors Mar 3
Frank Morgan Cavett
1905 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Pearl S. Buck
1892 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Sir Noel Coward
1899 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
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Stephen Goosson
1889 – 1973 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
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William Burnett Benton
1900 – 1973 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Melville Cooper
1896 – 1973 · Actors Mar 13
William Benton
1900 – 1973 · Politicians, Senator Mar 18
John Call
1908 – 1973 · Actors Apr 3
Adonis “Tom” DeMilo
1894 – 1973 · Actors Apr 4
Alla Tarasova
1898 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 4
Carmine Gallone
1886 – 1973 · Actors Apr 4
Clara Blore
1890 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 4
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Henry Darger
1892 – 1973 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
John Call
1908 – 1973 · Actors Apr 4
Josie Sedgwick
1899 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 4
Robert Armstrong
1890 – 1973 · Actors Apr 4
Ted De Corsia
1903 – 1973 · Actors Apr 4
Victor E. Aldridge
1893 – 1973 · Sports Figures Apr 4
Ynez Seabury
1907 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 4
Clara Blore
1890 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 5
Pablo Picasso
1881 – 1973 · Artists and Architects Apr 8
Arthur Freed
1894 – 1973 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Apr 12
Sam DeStefano
1909 – 1973 · Gangster Apr 14
Victor “Vic” Aldridge
1893 – 1973 · Athletes, Politicians, Sports Figures Apr 17
Robert Armstrong
1890 – 1973 · Actors Apr 20
George E. Allen
1896 – 1973 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Apr 23
Irene Dunne
1902 – 1973 · Actresses Apr 26
Irene Ryan
1902 – 1973 · Actresses, Comedian, Radio Performers, Theater Actor Apr 26
June Hutton
1920 – 1973 · Actresses, Singer May 2
Ace Cain
1903 – 1973 · Actors May 5
Asger Jorn
1914 – 1973 · Artists and Architects May 5
Asger Jorn
1914 – 1973 · Business Magnates May 5
Charles Brasch
1909 – 1973 · Authors and Writers May 5
Don Avalier
1912 – 1973 · Actors May 5
Jane Bowles
1917 – 1973 · Authors and Writers May 5
Jeanne Coyne
1923 – 1973 · Actresses May 5
Lex Barker
1919 – 1973 · Actors May 5
Maxine Doyle
1915 – 1973 · Actresses May 5
Myrna Fahey
1933 – 1973 · Actresses May 5
Myrna Fahey
1933 – 1973 · Actresses May 6
Myrna Fahey
1933 – 1973 · Actresses May 6
Frances Marion
1888 – 1973 · American journalist May 12
Ace Cain
1903 – 1973 · Actors May 18
Mary Kornman
1915 – 1973 · Actresses Jun 1
Max Terhune
1891 – 1973 · Actors Jun 5
Arna Wendell Bontemps
1902 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Dave Chasen
1898 – 1973 Jun 6
Fay Holden
1893 – 1973 · Actresses Jun 6
Frank Hagney
1884 – 1973 · Actors Jun 6
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr
1898 – 1973 Jun 6
Lane Bradford
1922 – 1973 · Actors Jun 6
Louise Latimer
1913 – 1973 · Actresses Jun 6
Mary Carr
1874 – 1973 · Actresses Jun 6
Roger Delgado
1918 – 1973 · Actors Jun 6
William Borzage
1892 – 1973 · Actors Jun 6
German Valdes
1915 – 1973 Jun 29
Betty Grable
1916 – 1973 · Actresses, Sex Goddess Jul 2
George Macready
1899 – 1973 · Actors Jul 2
Eileen Percy
1900 – 1973 · Actresses Jul 7
Giovanni Cantisano, Sr
1886 – 1973 Jul 7
Henri Charrière
1906 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Jack Hawkins
1910 – 1973 · Actors Jul 7
Joe E. Brown
1892 – 1973 · Actors Jul 7
Laurens Hammond
1895 – 1973 Jul 7
Lon Chaney, Jr
1906 – 1973 · Actors Jul 7
Michael Anthony Baulch
1957 – 1973 · Victims of crime and disaster Jul 7
Veronica Lake
1922 – 1973 · Actresses Jul 7
Willy Fritsch
1901 – 1973 · Actors Jul 7
Bruce Lee
1940 – 1973 · Actors, Celebrities, Martial Artists Jul 20
Roger Williamson
1948 – 1973 · Race Car Driver Jul 29
Lizzie Lawlers
1897 – 1973 · Blues Singer, Jazz Singer, Singer Aug 6
Barbette
1899 – 1973 · Entertainers Aug 8
Conrad Aiken
1889 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Dean Corll
1939 – 1973 · Serial Killer Aug 8
Eugene McDermott
1899 – 1973 · Business Magnates Aug 8
James Beck
1929 – 1973 · Actors Aug 8
Meri Welles
1937 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 8
Michael Dunn
1934 – 1973 · Actors Aug 8
Nell Franzen
1889 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 8
Patricia Avery
1902 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 8
Peggie Castle
1927 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 8
Stringer Davis
1899 – 1973 · Actors Aug 8
Tol Avery
1915 – 1973 · Actors Aug 8
Douglas Kennedy
1915 – 1973 · Actors Aug 10
Peggie Castle
1927 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 11
Veda Borg
1915 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 16
Eve Miller
1923 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 17
Patricia Avery
1902 – 1973 · Actresses Aug 21
Natale Evola
1907 – 1973 · Gangster Aug 28
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Sep 2
Sam Battaglia
1908 – 1973 · Gangster Sep 7
Jean Laverty
1904 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 9
Marion Fairbanks
1900 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 9
Marion Fairbanks
1900 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 9
Marjorie Merriweather Post
1887 – 1973 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Norma Crane
1928 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 9
Ted Adams
1890 – 1973 · Actors Sep 9
W. H. Auden
1907 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Salvador Allende
1908 – 1973 · Politicians Sep 11
Betty Field
1913 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 13
Thomas Licavoli
1904 – 1973 · Gangster Sep 17
Ben Webster
1909 – 1973 · Musicians and Composers Sep 20
Jim Croce
1943 – 1973 · Singer Sep 20
Diana Sands
1934 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 21
Pablo Neruda
1904 – 1973 · Authors and Writers, Poet Sep 23
Anna Magnani
1908 – 1973 · Actresses Sep 26
Mantan Moreland
1902 – 1973 · Actors Sep 28
Paavo Nurmi
1897 – 1973 · Athletes Oct 2
Dennis Price
1915 – 1973 · Actors Oct 6
Sidney Blackmer
1895 – 1973 · Actors Oct 6
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington
1876 – 1973 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Paul Hartman
1904 – 1973 · Actors Oct 10
Walt Kelly
1913 – 1973 · Artists and Architects, Business Magnates Oct 10
Paul Ricca
1897 – 1973 · Gangster Oct 11
Cleo Moore
1924 – 1973 · Actresses Oct 25
Allan Lane
1909 – 1973 · Actors Oct 27
David Akeman
1916 – 1973 · Comedian, Country Music Nov 10
Albert Henry DeSalvo
1931 – 1973 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Nov 11
Catherine Drinker Bowen
1897 – 1973 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Claire Anne Dodd Dodd
1911 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 11
Claire Anne Dodd Dodd
1911 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 11
Constance Talmadge
1899 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 11
David “Stringbean” Akeman
1916 – 1973 · Entertainers Nov 11
David Abel
1883 – 1973 · Entertainers Nov 11
Edward Cole “Eddie” Oatman
1889 – 1973 · Native Americans Nov 11
Fred Apostoli
1913 – 1973 · Sports Figures Nov 11
Laurence Harvey
1928 – 1973 · Actors Nov 11
Marc Allégret
1900 – 1973 · Actors Nov 11
Marcus A Foster
1923 – 1973 Nov 11
Mary Adams
1910 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 11
Nan Sunderland
1898 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 11
Lila Lee
1901 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 13
Allan Sherman
1924 – 1973 · Musicians and Composers Nov 20
Constance Talmadge
1899 – 1973 Nov 23
Claire Dodd
1911 – 1973 · Actresses Nov 23
Sessue Hayakawa
1889 – 1973 · Actors Nov 23
Albert DeSalvo
1931 – 1973 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Nov 25
John Rostill
1942 – 1973 · Musicians and Composers Nov 26
David Ben-Gurion
1886 – 1973 · Politicians Dec 1
Mary Fuller
1888 – 1973 · Actresses Dec 9
Albert George Ralphs, Sr
1897 – 1973 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Edouard “Eddie” Auger
1923 – 1973 · Sports Figures Dec 12
Henry H. “Hank” Daniels, Jr
1921 – 1973 · Actors Dec 12
Nell Harrison
1880 – 1973 · Actresses Dec 12
Ranald MacDougall
1915 – 1973 · Director Dec 12
Richard Cain
1931 – 1973 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 12
Viola Richard
1904 – 1973 · Actresses Dec 12
William “Billy” Haines
1900 – 1973 Dec 12
William “Billy” Haines
1900 – 1973 · Actors Dec 12
Bobby Darin
1936 – 1973 · Actors, Entertainers, Singer Dec 20
Virgil Exner
1909 – 1973 · Artists and Architects Dec 22
William Haines
1900 – 1973 · Actors Dec 26
Steven Geray
1904 – 1973 · Actors Dec 26
Willy Birgel
1891 – 1973 · Actors Dec 29
Alma Taylor
1895 – 1974 · Actresses Jan 1
Bobbie Dorree
1905 – 1974 · Actresses Jan 1
Edmund Blunden
1896 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Edmund Blunden
1896 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Errett Lobban Cord
1894 – 1974 Jan 1
Gino Cervi
1901 – 1974 · Actors Jan 1
H. E. Bates
1905 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
Jessie Mae McIntyre Stovall McIntosh
1909 – 1974 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Peter William Appleton
1904 – 1974 · Sports Figures Jan 1
William Fawcett
1894 – 1974 · Actors Jan 1
Wolfgang Anheisser
1929 – 1974 · Entertainers Jan 1
Tommy Raft
1914 – 1974 Jan 7
Anna Quirentia Nilsson
1888 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 2
Antonio Casal
1910 – 1974 · Actors Feb 2
Fern Andra
1893 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 2
Arline Judge
1912 – 1974 · Actresses, Theater Actor Feb 7
Anna Q. Nilsson
1888 – 1974 · Actresses, Model Feb 11
Florence Rice
1907 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 23
Barbara Ruick
1930 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
Billy De Wolfe
1907 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
Eduardo Cansino, Jr
1919 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
Françoise Rosay
1891 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
Judith Riedel Rawlins
1936 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
Louis Kahn
1901 – 1974 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Louis Kahn
1901 – 1974 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Louis Kahn
1901 – 1974 · Artists and Architects, Business Magnates Mar 3
Nathan Handwerker
1892 – 1974 Mar 3
Robert Lee Brokenburr
1886 – 1974 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
Vernon Cansino
1922 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
Willard Sage
1922 – 1974 Mar 17
Chet Huntley
1911 – 1974 · Entertainers Mar 20
Candy Darling
1944 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 21
Peter Revson
1939 – 1974 · Race Car Driver Mar 22
Georges Pompidou
1911 – 1974 · Politicians Apr 2
A.Y. Jackson
1882 – 1974 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Agnes Moorehead
1900 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
Douglass Dumbrille
1889 – 1974 · Actors Apr 4
Harold Vincent “Hal” Boyle
1911 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara
1897 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
Patricia Collinge Collinge
1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
Patricia Collinge Collinge
1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
Bobby Buntrock
1952 – 1974 · Actors Apr 7
Moose Charlap
1928 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers Apr 8
Patricia Collinge
1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 10
Betty Compson
1897 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 18
Marcel Pagnol
1895 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Apr 18
Bud Abbott
1895 – 1974 · Actors Apr 24
Ben Bard
1893 – 1974 · Actors May 5
Francis J. O’Malley
1909 – 1974 May 5
Stewart Alsop
1914 – 1974 · Authors and Writers May 5
Duke Ellington
1899 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers May 24
Donald Crisp
1882 – 1974 · Actors, Director, Film Director, Producer May 25
Blanche Yurka
1887 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
Blanche Yurka
1887 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
Brenda Carol Ball
1951 – 1974 · Victims of crime and disaster Jun 6
Katharine Cornell
1893 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
Katharine Cornell
1893 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
Miguel Angel Asturias
1899 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
Russell Harvey Ash
1910 – 1974 · Actors Jun 6
Susana Brunetti
1941 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
Pamela Owen Britton
1923 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 17
Georgy Zhukov
1896 – 1974 · Politicians Jun 18
Francis Blanche
1921 – 1974 · Actors Jul 6
Chet Brandenburg
1897 – 1974 · Actors Jul 7
Edna Thomas
1885 – 1974 · Actresses Jul 7
Julián Centeya
1910 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Sonia Holm
1922 – 1974 · Actresses Jul 7
Truman Bradley
1905 – 1974 · Actors Jul 7
Vernon Bigelow Stouffer
1901 – 1974 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Christine Chubbuck
1944 – 1974 · American journalist Jul 15
Allen Jenkins
1900 – 1974 · Actors Jul 20
Dr. Virginia Apgar
1909 – 1974 · Authors and Writers, Scientists and Inventors, Social Reformers, Suffragists Aug 7
Almira Sessions
1888 – 1974 · Actresses Aug 8
Photo
Buford Hayse Pusser
1937 – 1974 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Aug 8
Clay L. Shaw
1913 – 1974 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Edgar Dearing
1893 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
Edmund Fessenden Cobb
1892 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
Grant Hyde Code, Sr
1896 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
Ilona Massey
1910 – 1974 · Actresses Aug 8
Rosario Castellanos
1925 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Charles Lindbergh
1902 – 1974 · Military Figures Aug 26
Creighton Williams Abrams
1914 – 1974 · Military Figures Sep 4
Olga Baclanova
1896 – 1974 Sep 6
Otto Kruger
1885 – 1974 · Actors Sep 6
Patricia Cutts
1926 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 6
Barbara Jo “Vera Vague” Allen
1906 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
Barbara Jo “Vera Vague” Allen
1906 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
Cliff “Charlie Weaver” Arquette
1905 – 1974 · Actors Sep 9
Dorothy Stone
1905 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
Olga Baclanova
1896 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
Robert Cox
1896 – 1974 · Actors Sep 9
Barbara Jo Allen
1906 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 14
Forrest Allen
1885 – 1974 · Athletes, Basketball Sep 16
Forrest Clare “Phog” Allen
1885 – 1974 · Athletes, Sports Figures Sep 16
Edna Best
1900 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 18
Gail Cobb
1950 – 1974 · Victims of crime and disaster Sep 20
Walter Brennan
1894 – 1974 · Actors Sep 21
Ebe Stignani
1903 – 1974 · Singer, Theater Actor Oct 6
Harry Carney
1910 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers Oct 8
Hazel Neilson Terry
1923 – 1974 · Actresses Oct 10
Madalynne Field
1907 – 1974 · Actresses Oct 10
Otto Binder
1911 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Oct 13
Rudolf Dassler
1898 – 1974 · Business Magnates Oct 27
Chubby Johnson
1903 – 1974 · Actors Oct 31
Stafford Repp
1918 – 1974 · Actors Nov 5
Jane Ace
1900 – 1974 Nov 11
Bert “The Mad Russian” Gordon
1895 – 1974 · Actors Nov 11
Cyril Connolly
1903 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Haroldson Lafayette “H.L.” Hunt, Jr
1889 – 1974 Nov 11
Hunter Guthrie
1901 – 1974 Nov 11
Jane Ace
1897 – 1974 · Actresses Nov 11
Rodolfo Acosta
1920 – 1974 · Actors Nov 11
Rosemary Lane
1913 – 1974 · Actresses Nov 11
Vittorio De Sica
1901 – 1974 · Actors, Director, Film Director Nov 13
Johnny Mack Brown
1904 – 1974 · Actors Nov 14
Clive Brook
1887 – 1974 · Actors Nov 17
Cornelius Ryan
1920 – 1974 · Actors Nov 23
James J Braddock
1905 – 1974 · Boxers Nov 29
Bob Custer
1898 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
Dr Verner Winslow Crane
1889 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Floyd Byron Criswell
1899 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
Ralph M. Parsons
1896 – 1974 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Ralph M. Parsons
1896 – 1974 · Business Magnates Dec 12
Rufe Davis
1908 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
Jack Benny
1894 – 1974 · Actors, Comedian, Entertainers, Musicians and Composers Dec 26
Arthur Judson
1881 – 1975 Jan 1
Clara Mae Lewis Stover
1882 – 1975 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Duke Reid
1915 – 1975 · Music Producer Jan 1
Gertrude Olmsted
1897 – 1975 · Actresses Jan 1
John Dierkes
1905 – 1975 · Actors Jan 1
John Mavrakos
1913 – 1975 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Lawrence Carter “Slim” Barnard
1903 – 1975 · Entertainers Jan 1
Lyubov Orlova
1902 – 1975 · Actresses Jan 1
Thomas Hart Benton
1889 – 1975 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
John Gregson
1919 – 1975 · Actors Jan 8
Pierre Fresnay
1897 – 1975 · Actors Jan 9
Gertrude Olmstead
1897 – 1975 · Actresses Jan 18
Richard Blass
1945 – 1975 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 24
Richard Wattis
1912 – 1975 · Actors Feb 1
Lillian Fontaine
1886 – 1975 · Actresses Feb 2
Pierre Dac
1893 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Photo
Roger Hilton
1911 – 1975 · Artists and Architects Feb 2
Umm Kulthum
1898 – 1975 · Actresses, Celebrities, Musicians, Singer Feb 3
Norman Treigle
1927 – 1975 · Singer Feb 16
Robert Strauss
1913 – 1975 · Actors Feb 20
Aristotle Socrates Onassis
1906 – 1975 · Business Magnates Mar 3
Cass Daley
1915 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Gertrude Niesen
1911 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Jean Del Val
1891 – 1975 · Actors Mar 3
John H. Auer
1906 – 1975 · Entertainers Mar 3
Margarita Fischer
1886 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Michele Girardon
1938 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Milagros Leal
1902 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Taizo Ishizaka
1886 – 1975 Mar 3
Therese Giehse
1898 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 3
Ben Blue
1901 – 1975 · Actors Mar 7
George Stevens
1904 – 1975 · Actors Mar 8
Susan Hayward
1917 – 1975 · Actresses Mar 14
Yankel Kalich
1891 – 1975 · Actors Mar 16
Charles Schmid
1942 – 1975 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Mar 30
Mary Ure
1933 – 1975 · Actresses Apr 3
Photo
Clyde Anderson Tolson
1900 – 1975 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Apr 4
John Barron McKay
1922 – 1975 · Astronaut Apr 4
Mary Philips
1901 – 1975 · Actresses Apr 4
Chiang Kai-shek
1887 – 1975 · Politicians Apr 5
Marjorie Main
1890 – 1975 · Actresses Apr 10
Josephine Baker
1906 – 1975 · Actresses, Entertainers, Singer Apr 12
Clyde Tolson
1900 – 1975 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Apr 14
Richard Conte
1910 – 1975 · Actors Apr 15
William Hartnell
1908 – 1975 · Actors Apr 23
Mike Brant
1947 – 1975 · Pop Artist Apr 25
Moe Howard
1897 – 1975 · Actors, Comedian May 4
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Avery Brundage
1887 – 1975 · Business Magnates May 5
Photo
Barbara Hepworth
1903 – 1975 · Artists and Architects May 5
Vivian Fields
1884 – 1975 · Actresses May 5
Philip Dorn
1901 – 1975 · Actors May 9
Bob Wills
1905 – 1975 · Country Music May 13
Dr. Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
1878 – 1975 · Scientists and Inventors May 14
Moms Mabley
1894 – 1975 · Actors May 23
Ezzard Charles
1921 – 1975 · Athletes, Boxers May 28
Roy Roberts
1906 – 1975 · Actors May 28
Michel Simon
1895 – 1975 · Actors May 30
Evelyn Brent
1901 – 1975 · Actresses Jun 4
Danny Borzage
1896 – 1975 · Actors Jun 6
William C.P. Austin
1884 – 1975 · Actors Jun 6
Sam Giancana
1908 – 1975 · Gangster Jun 19
Barbara Colby
1939 – 1975 · Actresses Jul 7
Boris Babochkin
1904 – 1975 · Actors Jul 7
George Morgan
1924 – 1975 · Country Music Jul 7
Gordon Bau
1907 – 1975 · Entertainers Jul 7
Gustinus Ambrosi
1893 – 1975 · Artists and Architects Jul 7
Havis Olson Davenport
1933 – 1975 · Actresses Jul 7
Havis Olson Davenport
1933 – 1975 · Actresses Jul 7
James Blish
1921 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
William Joseph “Bill” Cartledge, Sr
1914 – 1975 · Actors Jul 7
Lefty Frizzell
1928 – 1975 · Country Music Jul 19
Jimmy Hoffa
1913 – 1975 · Gangster Jul 30
Phyllis Povah
1893 – 1975 · Actresses Aug 7
Bob “Tumbleweed” Baker
1910 – 1975 · Actors Aug 8
Charles Revson
1906 – 1975 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Cousin Jody
1919 – 1975 · Comedian, Country Music Aug 8
Pierre Blaise
1952 – 1975 · Actors Aug 8
Siegfried Arno
1895 – 1975 · Actors Aug 8
Sig Arno
1895 – 1975 · Actors Aug 8
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975 · Musicians and Composers Aug 9
Sig Arno
1895 – 1975 · Actors Aug 17
Ima Hogg
1882 – 1975 · Philanthropists Aug 19
Joseph Kane
1894 – 1975 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Aug 25
Haile Selassie
1892 – 1975 · Royalty Aug 27
Haile Selassie I
1892 – 1975 · Politicians, Royalty Aug 27
Bob Baker
1910 – 1975 · Actors Aug 29
Allan “Big Pete” Shields
1906 – 1975 · Athletes, Hockey Sep 9
Inga Tidblad
1901 – 1975 · Actresses Sep 9
Irene Hayes Solomon
1895 – 1975 · Business Magnates Sep 9
John McGiver
1913 – 1975 · Actors Sep 9
Minta Dufree
1889 – 1975 · Actresses Sep 9
Minta Durfee
1889 – 1975 · Actresses Sep 9
Minta Durfee
1889 – 1975 · Actresses Sep 9
Pamela Brown
1917 – 1975 · Actresses Sep 19
Mark Frechette
1947 – 1975 · Actors, Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Sep 27
Joan Payson
1903 – 1975 · Baseball, Philanthropists Oct 4
Henry Calvin
1918 – 1975 · Actors Oct 6
Gabino Coria Peñaloza
1881 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Jacques Charon
1920 – 1975 · Actors Oct 10
Evelyn Brent
1901 – 1975 · Actresses Oct 11
Vittorio Gui
1885 – 1975 · Musicians and Composers Oct 16
Martha Moxley
1960 – 1975 · Victims of crime and disaster Oct 30
Joseph Calleia
1897 – 1975 · Actors, Singer Oct 31
Sheila Ryan
1921 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 4
Edward Tatum
1909 – 1975 · Scientists and Inventors Nov 5
Photo
1913 – 1975 Nov 11
America Chedister
1895 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
America Chedister
1895 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
Annette Kellerman
1887 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
Doro Merande
1892 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
E. Paul Crume
1912 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Moyna MacGill
1895 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
Paule Bayard
1931 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 11
Kay Johnson
1904 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 17
Francisco Franco
1892 – 1975 · Celebrities, Politicians Nov 20
Moyna MacGill
1895 – 1975 Nov 25
Paule Bayard
1931 – 1975 · Actresses Nov 29
Graham Hill
1929 – 1975 · Race Car Driver Nov 29
Tony Brise
1952 – 1975 · Race Car Driver Nov 29
Thorton Wilder
1897 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Dec 7
Alan Brookman Beddoe
1893 – 1975 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Cyril Delevanti
1889 – 1975 · Actors Dec 12
Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro
1895 – 1975 · Actresses Dec 12
Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Hardie Albright
1903 – 1975 · Actors Dec 12
Hüseyin Nihal Atsız
1905 – 1975 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Jean Chevrier
1915 – 1975 · Actors Dec 12
Theresa “Tess” Wheeler
1891 – 1975 · Actresses Dec 12
Arthur Treacher
1894 – 1975 · Actors Dec 14
Richard Welch
1929 – 1975 · Victims of crime and disaster Dec 23
Agatha Christie
1890 – 1976 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
George Calliga
1897 – 1976 · Actors Jan 1
Kevin Coughlin
1945 – 1976 · Actors Jan 1
Marcel Broodthaers
1924 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
Margaret Leighton
1922 – 1976 · Actresses Jan 13
Friedrich Hollaender
1896 – 1976 · Musicians and Composers Jan 18
Ray Nance
1913 – 1976 · Musicians and Composers Jan 28
Alice Allyn
1929 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Alice Maison
1900 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Angela Baddeley
1904 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Dallas McDonald Burnette
1900 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Dallas McDonald Burnette
1900 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Frieda Inescort
1901 – 1976 · Actresses Feb 2
Lee J. Cobb
1911 – 1976 · Actors Feb 2
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Milton Harry Biow
1892 – 1976 · Business Magnates Feb 2
Paul Gilbert
1918 – 1976 · Actors Feb 2
Romaine Callender
1883 – 1976 · Actors Feb 2
Roger Livesey
1906 – 1976 · Actors Feb 4
Lee Cobb
1911 – 1976 · Actors Feb 11
Sal Mineo
1939 – 1976 · Actors, Victims of crime and disaster Feb 12
Lily Pons
1898 – 1976 · Singer Feb 13
Frieda Inescort
1901 – 1976 Feb 26
Jacques Carlu
1890 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Josef Albers
1888 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Richard Arlen
1898 – 1976 · Actors Mar 3
Larry Thor
1916 – 1976 · Actors, Radio Performers Mar 16
Luchino Visconti
1906 – 1976 · Director Mar 17
Michael Goodliffe
1914 – 1976 · Actors Mar 20
Richard Arlen
1898 – 1976 · Actors Mar 28
Hank Edward “Coon” Ciesla
1934 – 1976 · Native Americans Apr 4
Maudie Merrie Prickett
1914 – 1976 · Actresses Apr 4
Photo
Max Ernst
1891 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
Miriam Cooper
1891 – 1976 · Actresses Apr 4
Denise Pelletier
1923 – 1976 · Actresses May 5
Lucile Browne
1907 – 1976 · Actresses May 5
Ruth McDevitt
1895 – 1976 · Actresses May 5
Sheree Winton
1935 – 1976 · Actresses May 5
Lucile Browne
1907 – 1976 · Actresses May 10
Martin Heidegger
1889 – 1976 · Authors and Writers May 26
Martha Beall Mitchell
1918 – 1976 · Relatives Of Notable May 31
Adolph Zukor
1873 – 1976 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Alan “Boomie” DeWitt
1921 – 1976 · Actors Jun 6
Bernice Morgan Bryant
1906 – 1976 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
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Charles Ross “C. R.” Anthony
1884 – 1976 · Business Magnates Jun 6
Fofó Aragón Bermúdez
1925 – 1976 · Entertainers Jun 6
J. Paul Getty
1892 – 1976 · Business Magnates, Celebrities Jun 6
Sir Stanley Baker
1927 – 1976 · Actors Jun 6
Sybil Thorndike
1882 – 1976 · Actresses Jun 9
Sir Stanley Baker
1927 – 1976 · Actors Jun 28
Stanley Baker
1928 – 1976 · Actors, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Jun 28
Frances Howard Goldwyn
1903 – 1976 · Actresses Jul 7
Rina Morelli
1908 – 1976 · Actresses Jul 7
Mike Pratt
1931 – 1976 · Actors, Musicians and Composers Jul 10
Alfred Laing
1890 – 1976 · Actors Jul 27
Meyer Cohen
1913 – 1976 · Gangster Jul 29
Alonzo Wright
1898 – 1976 · Native Americans Aug 8
Martin Burton
1904 – 1976 · Actors Aug 8
Steve Benton
1896 – 1976 · Actors Aug 8
Ángel Garasa
1905 – 1976 · Actors Aug 8
Ray Corrigan
1902 – 1976 · Actors Aug 10
Warner Anderson
1911 – 1976 · Actors Aug 26
Anissa Jones
1958 – 1976 · Actresses Aug 28
Emmanuel Berl
1892 – 1976 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
James Warner Bellah
1899 – 1976 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Laudas Joseph “Duke” Dukowski
1900 – 1976 · Native Americans Sep 9
Mao Zedong
1893 – 1976 · Politicians Sep 9
Dalton Trumbo
1905 – 1976 · Authors and Writers, Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Sep 10
Paul Dehn
1912 – 1976 · Authors and Writers Sep 30
Barbara Nichols
1929 – 1976 · Actresses Oct 10
Edith Mary Evans
1888 – 1976 · Actresses Oct 10
Edward Burra
1905 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Gen Troy Houston Middleton
1889 – 1976 Oct 10
Gloria Hope
1899 – 1976 · Actresses Oct 10
Mabel Julienne Scott
1892 – 1976 · Actresses Oct 10
Roy E. Aitken
1882 – 1976 · Entertainers Oct 10
Carlo Gambino
1902 – 1976 · Gangster Oct 15
Linda Watkins
1908 – 1976 · Actresses Oct 31
Gottfried von Cramm
1909 – 1976 · Athletes Nov 8
Billy Halop
1920 – 1976 · Actors Nov 9
Alexander Calder
1898 – 1976 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Benjamin Fletcher Wright
1900 – 1976 · Educators Nov 11
Oscar Beregi, Jr
1918 – 1976 · Actors Nov 11
Saax Bradbury
1943 – 1976 · Actors Nov 11
Zena Virginia Keefe
1896 – 1976 · Actresses Nov 11
Jean Gabin
1904 – 1976 · Actors Nov 15
Jean Gabin
1904 – 1976 · Actors Nov 15
Rupert Davies
1916 – 1976 · Actors Nov 22
Rosalind Russell
1907 – 1976 · Actresses Nov 28
Godfrey Cambridge
1933 – 1976 · Actors, Comedian Nov 29
Judith Lowry
1890 – 1976 · Actresses Nov 29
Mary Nash
1884 – 1976 · Actresses Dec 3
Cathy Downs
1924 – 1976 · Actresses Dec 8
Clara Horton
1904 – 1976 · Actresses Dec 12
Frances Raeburn
1924 – 1976 · Actresses Dec 12
George De Normand
1903 – 1976 · Actors Dec 12
Jack Cassidy
1927 – 1976 · Actors Dec 12
Frankie Darro
1917 – 1976 · Actors Dec 25
Irving Lerner
1909 – 1976 · Director, Film Director Dec 25
Bernard “Toots” Shor
1903 – 1977 · Business Magnates Jan 1
Hans Alsér
1942 – 1977 · Sports Figures Jan 1
Lucille Pinson Shippee
1900 – 1977 · Actresses Jan 1
Ralph Taylor Graves
1900 – 1977 · Actors Jan 1
Yvonne Wignolle Printemps
1895 – 1977 · Actresses Jan 1
Erroll Garner
1923 – 1977 · Musicians and Composers Jan 2
Anthony Eden
1897 – 1977 · Politicians Jan 14
Gary Gilmore
1940 – 1977 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 17
Yvonne Printemps
1894 – 1977 · Actresses, Singer Jan 18
Margaret Hayes
1916 – 1977 · Actresses Jan 26
Burt Mustin
1884 – 1977 · Actors Jan 28
Freddie Prinze
1954 – 1977 · Actors, Comedian Jan 29
Daniel Mainwaring
1902 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Jan 31
Eddie Lincoln “Rochester” Anderson
1905 – 1977 · Actors Feb 2
John Dickson Carr
1906 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Olinda Bozán
1894 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 2
Pauline Starke
1901 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 2
Shannon Day
1896 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 2
Olinda Bozan
1894 – 1977 Feb 8
Helen Brach
1911 – 1977 · Victims of crime and disaster Feb 17
Andy Devine
1905 – 1977 · Actors Feb 18
Muriel Landers
1921 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 19
Edith Barrett
1907 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 22
Milton Kamen
1921 – 1977 Feb 24
Allison Hayes
1930 – 1977 · Actresses Feb 27
Eddie Lincoln Anderson
1905 – 1977 · Actors Feb 28
Abdel Halim Hafez
1929 – 1977 · Actors Mar 3
Carlo Battisti
1882 – 1977 · Actors Mar 3
Photo
Eve Turner “Eve” Meyer
1928 – 1977 · Actresses Mar 3
George Eldredge
1898 – 1977 · Actors Mar 3
Kinuyo Tanaka
1910 – 1977 · Actresses Mar 3
Photo
Theora Alton Hamblett
1895 – 1977 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
Tom Pryce
1949 – 1977 · Race Car Driver Mar 5
Henry Hull
1890 – 1977 · Actors Mar 8
Helen Ferguson
1901 – 1977 · Actresses Mar 14
Carlos Pace
1944 – 1977 · Race Car Driver Mar 18
Kinuyo Tanaka
1910 – 1977 · Actresses Mar 21
Stoney Cooper
1918 – 1977 · Country Music Mar 22
Nunnally Johnson
1897 – 1977 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Mar 25
Diana Hyland
1936 – 1977 · Actresses Mar 27
Eve Meyer
1928 – 1977 · Actresses, Model, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Mar 27
Abdel Hafez
1929 – 1977 Mar 30
Lynn Castile
1897 – 1977 · Actresses Apr 4
Philip K. Wrigley
1894 – 1977 · Business Magnates Apr 4
Stan Smrke
1928 – 1977 · Native Americans Apr 4
Wilmer Lawson Allison, Jr
1904 – 1977 · Sports Figures Apr 4
Jim Thompson
1906 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Apr 7
Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
1898 – 1977 · Celebrities, Musicians and Composers Apr 8
Gummo Marx
1892 – 1977 · Actors Apr 21
Stanley Adams
1915 – 1977 · Actors Apr 27
Ricardo Cortez
1900 – 1977 · Actors Apr 28
Barry Ashbee
1939 – 1977 · Sports Figures May 5
Lillian Kemble-Cooper
1892 – 1977 · Actresses May 5
Richard Bissell
1913 – 1977 · Authors and Writers May 5
Rose Allen
1885 – 1977 · Actresses May 5
Joan Crawford
1904 – 1977 · Actresses, Celebrities May 10
Rulon Allred
1906 – 1977 · Victims of crime and disaster May 10
William Castle
1914 – 1977 · Actors, Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer May 31
Mabel Todd
1907 – 1977 · Actresses Jun 2
Stephen Boyd
1931 – 1977 · Actors Jun 2
Roberto Rossellini
1906 – 1977 · Director Jun 3
Abner Biberman
1909 – 1977 · Actors Jun 6
Harold Marston Morse
1892 – 1977 Jun 6
Matthew Garber
1956 – 1977 · Actors Jun 6
Tom Campbell Clark
1899 – 1977 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Jun 13
Alan Reed
1907 – 1977 · Actors Jun 14
Robert Middleton
1911 – 1977 · Actors Jun 14
Geraldine Brooks
1925 – 1977 · Actresses Jun 19
Sylvia Ashley
1904 – 1977 · Model, Socialite Jun 29
Arsenio Pastor Erico
1915 – 1977 · Soccer Jul 7
Carter DeHaven
1886 – 1977 · Actors Jul 7
John Robert Powers
1892 – 1977 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Photo
Leighton Brill
1893 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
Alice Paul
1885 – 1977 · Social Reformers, Suffragists Jul 9
Henry Vahl
1897 – 1977 · Actors Jul 21
Ernst Bloch
1885 – 1977 · Educators Aug 4
Elizabeth Flournoy
1886 – 1977 · Actresses Aug 8
Vince Barnett
1902 – 1977 · Actors Aug 10
Elvis Presley
1935 – 1977 · Actors, Entertainers Aug 16
Delmer Daves
1904 – 1977 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Aug 17
Eddy Waller
1889 – 1977 · Actors Aug 19
Peter Dyneley
1921 – 1977 · Actors Aug 19
Danny Lockin
1943 – 1977 · Actors, Victims of crime and disaster Aug 21
Sebastian Cabot
1918 – 1977 · Actors Aug 22
Willis Bouchey
1907 – 1977 · Actors Aug 26
Jean Hagen
1923 – 1977 · Actresses Aug 29
Rick Vallin
1919 – 1977 · Actors Aug 31
Ethel Waters
1896 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 1
Claudia Dell
1909 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 9
George Beban, Jr
1914 – 1977 · Actors Sep 9
Glen Gordon
1914 – 1977 · Actors Sep 9
Leonard Carey
1887 – 1977 · Actors Sep 9
Mona Darkfeather
1883 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 9
Paloma “Blackie” Efrom
1912 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 9
Ruth Mix Hill
1912 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 9
Sandra Mozarovsky
1958 – 1977 · Actresses Sep 9
Stephen Dunne
1918 – 1977 · Actors Sep 9
William Sutherland Beckett
1921 – 1977 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Leopold Stokowski
1882 – 1977 · Musicians and Composers Sep 13
Robert McKimson
1910 – 1977 · Artists and Architects Sep 29
Danny Greene
1933 – 1977 · Gangster Oct 6
Ruth Elder
1902 – 1977 · Actresses Oct 9
Photo
1892 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Anton Hulman, Jr
1901 – 1977 Oct 10
Jackie Condon
1918 – 1977 · Actors Oct 10
Photo
Nikolai Petrovich Glushchenko
1901 – 1977 · Artists and Architects Oct 10
Dorothy Davenport
1895 – 1977 · Actresses Oct 12
Bing Crosby
1903 – 1977 · Athletes, Baseball, Business Magnates, Celebrities, Comedian Oct 14
Michael Balcon
1896 – 1977 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Oct 17
James Cain
1892 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Oct 27
Ted Hinton
1904 – 1977 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 27
Joan Tetzel
1921 – 1977 · Actresses Oct 31
Gertrude Astor
1887 – 1977 · Actresses Nov 9
Betty Balfour
1903 – 1977 · Actresses Nov 11
Florence Vidor
1895 – 1977 · Actresses Nov 11
Milos Crnjanski
1893 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Photo
Rene Goscinny
1926 – 1977 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Victor c Francen
1888 – 1977 · Actors Nov 11
Yale Thomas Boss
1899 – 1977 · Actors Nov 11
Victor Francen
1888 – 1977 · Actors Nov 18
Michael Hutchence
1960 – 1977 · Singer Nov 22
Richard Carlson
1912 – 1977 · Actors, Director, Film Director, TV Director Nov 25
Terence Rattigan
1911 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Nov 30
Leila Hyams
1905 – 1977 · Actresses Dec 4
Heloise Bowles Cruse
1919 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Jacques Auger
1901 – 1977 · Actors Dec 12
Russell Birdwell
1903 – 1977 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Cyril Ritchard
1898 – 1977 · Actors Dec 18
Jacques Tourneur
1904 – 1977 · Film Director Dec 19
Charlie Chaplin
1889 – 1977 · Actors Dec 25
Charlotte Greenwood
1890 – 1977 · Actresses Dec 28
Nora Marlowe
1915 – 1977 · Actresses Dec 31
Damia
1889 – 1978 · Actresses Jan 1
Douglas Hare
1948 – 1978 · Actors Jan 1
John Laing
1879 – 1978 Jan 1
Sally Eilers
1908 – 1978 · Actresses Jan 1
Sally Eilers
1908 – 1978 · Actresses Jan 5
Wyatt Emory Cooper
1927 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Jan 5
Noble Johnson
1881 – 1978 · Actors Jan 9
Michael Bates
1920 – 1978 · Actors Jan 11
Robert Harbin
1908 – 1978 · Magicians Jan 12
Herbert Humphrey
1911 – 1978 · Politicians Jan 13
Hubert Humphrey
1911 – 1978 · Politicians Jan 13
Blossom Rock
1895 – 1978 · Actresses Jan 14
Harold Abrahams
1899 – 1978 · Athletes, Authors and Writers, Sports Figures Jan 14
Carl Betz
1921 – 1978 · Actors Jan 18
Jack Oakie
1903 – 1978 · Actors Jan 23
Herta Oberheuser
1911 – 1978 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 24
Leo Genn
1905 – 1978 · Actors Jan 26
Oskar Homolka
1898 – 1978 · Actors Jan 27
Wendy Barrie
1912 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Angela Greene
1921 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Claude Binyon
1905 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Ilka Chase
1905 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Photo
James Frank “Pete” Rogers
1922 – 1978 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2
Kathleen Lockhart
1894 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Maggie McNamara
1928 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Michael Bartlett
1901 – 1978 · Actors Feb 2
Wendy Barrie
1912 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Wendy Barrie
1912 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 2
Daphne Pollard
1892 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 22
Philip Ahn
1905 – 1978 · Actors Feb 28
Zara Cully
1892 – 1978 · Actresses Feb 28
Faith Baldwin
1893 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Mar 3
Ferrell J “Andy” Anderson
1918 – 1978 · Sports Figures Mar 3
John Cazale
1935 – 1978 · Actors Mar 3
Photo
Mabel L. Criss
1881 – 1978 Mar 3
Rev John Burnaby
1891 – 1978 Mar 3
Kathryn Givney
1896 – 1978 · Actresses Mar 16
Eddie Aikau
1946 – 1978 · Athletes, Sports Figures Mar 17
Peggy Wood
1892 – 1978 · Actresses Mar 18
Leslie Fenton
1902 – 1978 · Actors Mar 25
Wilfred Pickles
1904 – 1978 · Actors Mar 26
Astrid Allwyn
1905 – 1978 · Actresses, Celebrities Mar 31
Charles Herbert Best
1899 – 1978 · Authors and Writers, Educators, Scientists and Inventors Mar 31
Lynne Roberts
1922 – 1978 · Actresses Apr 1
Ann Morrison
1916 – 1978 · Actresses Apr 4
Denis Drouin
1916 – 1978 · Actors Apr 4
Will Geer
1902 – 1978 · Actors Apr 4
Frank Glifford Tallman III
1919 – 1978 Apr 15
Davie Kerr
1909 – 1978 · Native Americans May 5
Dorothy Coburn
1904 – 1978 · Actresses May 5
Lina Yegros
1913 – 1978 · Actresses May 5
Joe Colombo
1923 – 1978 · Gangster May 22
Joseph Colombo
1924 – 1978 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities, Gangster May 22
Barry Atwater
1918 – 1978 · Actors May 24
Arthur Brough
1905 – 1978 · Actors May 28
Algur Hurtle Meadows
1899 – 1978 · Business Magnates Jun 6
William Fisk Harrah
1911 – 1978 Jun 6
Barry Brown
1951 – 1978 · Actors Jun 25
Josette Day
1914 – 1978 · Actresses Jun 27
Bob Crane
1928 – 1978 · Actors Jun 29
James Daly
1918 – 1978 · Actors Jul 3
James Daly
1918 – 1978 · Actors Jul 3
Babe Paley
1915 – 1978 · Socialite Jul 6
Antoinette Giroux
1903 – 1978 · Actresses Jul 7
Benson Ford, Sr
1919 – 1978 Jul 7
John D. Rockefeller, III
1906 – 1978 · Business Magnates Jul 7
Thayer David
1927 – 1978 · Actors Jul 17
Bill Baird
1914 – 1978 · Magicians Aug 5
Queenie Smith
1898 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 5
Bruce Catton
1899 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
Photo
Charles Ormand Eames
1907 – 1978 · Artists and Architects Aug 8
Mina Cunard
1894 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 8
Vera Petrovna Maretskaya
1906 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 8
Jean Acker
1892 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 16
Jean Acker
1893 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 16
Pat Paterson
1910 – 1978 · Actresses Aug 24
Charles Boyer
1899 – 1978 · Actors Aug 28
Robert Shaw
1927 – 1978 · Actors Aug 28
Lee Garmes
1898 – 1978 · Producer Aug 31
Adolf Dassler
1900 – 1978 · Business Magnates Sep 6
Keith Moon
1946 – 1978 · Actors, Celebrities, Singer Sep 7
Ann Shoemaker
1891 – 1978 · Actresses Sep 9
Charles Francis Blair, Jr
1909 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Sep 9
Fred G. Meyer
1886 – 1978 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Photo
Fred G. Meyer
1886 – 1978 · Business Magnates Sep 9
Jay Adler
1896 – 1978 · Actors Sep 9
Myrtle Damerel
1888 – 1978 · Actresses Sep 9
Otto Eduard Hasse
1903 – 1978 · Actors Sep 9
Ronnie Peterson
1944 – 1978 · Race Car Driver Sep 11
Myrtle Damerel
1888 – 1978 · Actresses Sep 18
Lyman Bostock
1950 – 1978 · Athletes, Baseball Sep 23
Ruth Etting
1897 – 1978 · Actresses, Singer Sep 24
Edgar Bergen
1903 – 1978 · Actors, Comedian, Radio Performers Sep 30
Jean Hans Mayer Amery
1912 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Kathryn Loder
1940 – 1978 · Actresses Oct 10
Kathryn McGuire
1903 – 1978 · Actresses Oct 10
Octavia Handworth
1887 – 1978 · Actresses Oct 10
Dan Dailey
1915 – 1978 · Actors Oct 16
Gig Young
1913 – 1978 · Actors Oct 19
Mel Street
1933 – 1978 · Country Music Oct 21
Dorothy Shay
1921 – 1978 · Comedian, Singer Oct 22
Maybelle Carter
1909 – 1978 · Country Music Oct 23
Gloria Castillo
1933 – 1978 · Actresses Oct 24
Wallace MacDonald
1891 – 1978 · Actors Oct 30
Brian Hayles
1931 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Oct 30
Gene Tunney
1897 – 1978 · Boxers Nov 7
Florence Marly
1919 – 1978 · Actresses Nov 9
Theo Lingen
1903 – 1978 · Actors Nov 10
Ford Ingalsbe Beebe
1888 – 1978 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Nov 11
Harry Bertoia
1915 – 1978 · Artists and Architects Nov 11
Ilean Oliver
1896 – 1978 · Actresses Nov 11
Susan Shaw
1929 – 1978 · Actresses Nov 11
Giorgio de Chirico
1888 – 1978 · Artists and Architects Nov 20
Robert Alan Aurthur
1922 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Nov 20
Scott Newman
1950 – 1978 · Actors Nov 20
Ford Beebe
1888 – 1978 · Director Nov 26
Harvey Milk
1930 – 1978 · Politicians Nov 27
André Morell
1909 – 1978 · Actors Nov 28
John Russo
1909 – 1978 · Gangster Dec 2
Golda Meir
1898 – 1978 · Politicians Dec 8
Bill Bailey
1912 – 1978 · Actors Dec 12
Merritt Franklin Bohn
1905 – 1978 · Actors Dec 12
Rita Bekes
1925 – 1978 · Actresses Dec 12
Roger Caillois
1913 – 1978 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Chill Wills
1902 – 1978 · Actors Dec 15
Rita Bekes
1925 – 1978 · Actresses Dec 16
Bob Luman
1937 – 1978 · Country Music Dec 27
Carol Holloway
1892 – 1979 · Actresses Jan 1
Celia Adler
1889 – 1979 · Actresses Jan 1
Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Sr
1887 – 1979 Jan 1
Gretchen Hartman
1897 – 1979 · Actresses Jan 1
Morris David Erby
1926 – 1979 · Actors Jan 1
Peter Butterworth
1919 – 1979 · Actors Jan 1
Ted Cassidy
1932 – 1979 · Actors Jan 1
Thomas DeSimone
1950 – 1979 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jan 1
William “Billy” Bletcher
1894 – 1979 · Actors Jan 1
Billy Bletcher
1894 – 1979 · Actors Jan 5
Sara Dougherty Carter
1898 – 1979 · Country Music, Singer, Song Writers Jan 8
John Dioguardi
1914 – 1979 · Gangster Jan 12
Paul Meurisse
1912 – 1979 · Actors Jan 19
Robertson Hare
1891 – 1979 · Actors Jan 25
George Edward Gordon Catlin
1896 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Feb 2
Jody Gilbert
1916 – 1979 · Actresses Feb 2
Louise Allbritton
1920 – 1979 · Actresses Feb 2
Sid Vicious
1957 – 1979 · Musicians and Composers Feb 2
Josef Mengele
1911 – 1979 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Feb 7
Warren Giles
1896 – 1979 · Baseball Feb 7
Dennis Gabor
1900 – 1979 · Scientists and Inventors Feb 9
William Gargan
1905 – 1979 · Actors Feb 17
Jane Hylton
1927 – 1979 · Actresses Feb 28
Dolores Costello
1903 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 1
Alan Crofoot
1929 – 1979 · Actors Mar 3
Beatrice Blinn
1901 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
Gladys McConnell
1905 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
John Harvey Bailey
1887 – 1979 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Mar 3
Marie Maroldo
1901 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
Marjorie Daw
1902 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
Minerva Pious
1903 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
Philip Hilaire Bourneuf
1908 – 1979 · Actors Mar 3
Richard Beckinsale
1947 – 1979 · Actors Mar 3
Wilna “Willie” Hervey
1894 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 3
Charles Wagenheim
1896 – 1979 Mar 6
Wilna Hervey
1894 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 6
Barbara Mullen
1914 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 9
Lucien Andriot
1892 – 1979 · Director, Producer Mar 19
Doris Packer
1904 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 20
Ben Lyon
1901 – 1979 · Actors Mar 22
Beatrice Blinn
1901 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 31
Doris Packer
1904 – 1979 · Actresses Mar 31
Barbara Luddy
1908 – 1979 · Actresses, Radio Performers Apr 1
Edgar Buchanan
1903 – 1979 · Actors Apr 4
Herbert Dunn
1891 – 1979 · Actors Apr 4
William Barrymore
1899 – 1979 · Actors Apr 4
Nadine Dennis
1896 – 1979 · Actresses Apr 10
John Carroll
1906 – 1979 · Actors Apr 24
Anthony Russo
1916 – 1979 · Gangster Apr 26
Fred Coe
1914 – 1979 · Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer, TV Director Apr 29
Dora Mavor Moore
1888 – 1979 · Actresses May 5
Ita Tamara Djordjevic Rina
1907 – 1979 · Actresses May 5
Jan Arvan
1913 – 1979 · Actors May 5
Mary Pickford
1892 – 1979 · Actresses May 5
Pietro Lazzari
1895 – 1979 · Artists and Architects May 5
Rosemary La Planche
1923 – 1979 · Actresses May 5
Barbara Hutton
1912 – 1979 · Socialite May 11
Lester Flatt
1914 – 1979 · Bluegrass Music May 11
Robert Florey
1900 – 1979 · Actors May 16
George Brent
1904 – 1979 · Actors May 26
Jim Hutton
1934 – 1979 · Actors Jun 2
Heinz Erhardt
1909 – 1979 · Actors Jun 5
Clarence Sinclair Bull
1896 – 1979 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
Colin Reith Coote
1893 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
George Cisar
1912 – 1979 · Actors Jun 6
Hope Summers
1896 – 1979 · Actresses Jun 6
Jack Haley
1897 – 1979 · Actors, Entertainers, Singer Jun 6
Robert Samuel Carson
1909 – 1979 · Actors Jun 6
John Wayne
1907 – 1979 · Actors, Celebrities, Film Director Jun 11
Darla Hood
1931 – 1979 · Actresses Jun 13
Laurie Bird
1953 – 1979 · Actresses Jun 15
Nick Grinde
1893 – 1979 · Director, Film Director Jun 19
Emory Parnell
1892 – 1979 · Actors Jun 22
Dave Fleischer
1894 – 1979 · Film Director Jun 25
Malcolm Hulke
1924 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Jul 6
Anthony Eustrel
1902 – 1979 · Actors Jul 7
Beppie Nooij
1919 – 1979 · Actresses Jul 7
Kathleen Case
1933 – 1979 · Actresses Jul 7
Michael Wilding
1912 – 1979 · Actors Jul 8
Cornelia Otis Skinner
1899 – 1979 · Actresses, Authors and Writers Jul 9
Carmine Galante
1910 – 1979 · Gangster, Organized Crime Figures Jul 12
Corinne Griffith
1894 – 1979 · Actresses Jul 13
Billy McCrary
1946 – 1979 · Miscellaneous Jul 14
Eric Pohlmann
1913 – 1979 · Actors Jul 25
Virginia Brissac
1883 – 1979 · Actresses Jul 26
Shirley Mason
1900 – 1979 · Actresses Jul 27
George Seaton
1911 – 1979 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Jul 28
Thurman Munson
1947 – 1979 · Athletes, Sports Figures Aug 2
Bertil Ohlin
1899 – 1979 · Politicians Aug 3
Kurt Kasznar
1913 – 1979 · Actors Aug 6
Felix Aylmer
1889 – 1979 · Actors Aug 8
Jean Seberg
1938 – 1979 · Actresses Aug 8
Mary Marquet
1895 – 1979 · Actresses Aug 8
Samuel I. Newhouse
1895 – 1979 · Business Magnates Aug 8
Dick Foran
1910 – 1979 · Actors Aug 10
Vivian Vance
1909 – 1979 · Actresses Aug 17
Mary Millington
1945 – 1979 · Model, Sex Goddess Aug 19
Richard Hearne
1908 – 1979 · Actors Aug 23
Sally Rand
1904 – 1979 · Actresses Aug 31
Doris Kenyon
1897 – 1979 · Actresses Sep 1
Tammy Vincent
1962 – 1979 · Victims of crime and disaster Sep 1
Photo
Carl A. Grubert, Jr
1911 – 1979 · Artists and Architects Sep 9
Gracie Fields
1899 – 1979 · Actresses Sep 9
Laly Soldevila
1933 – 1979 · Actresses Sep 9
Norrie Paramor
1914 – 1979 · Musicians and Composers Sep 9
Gio Ponti
1891 – 1979 · Artists and Architects Sep 16
Paul Dubov
1918 – 1979 · Actors Sep 20
Frederick Piper
1902 – 1979 · Actors Sep 22
Catherine Lacey
1904 – 1979 · Actresses Sep 23
Carl Laemmle
1908 – 1979 · Producer, Relatives Of Notable Sep 24
Catherine Hessling
1900 – 1979 · Actresses Sep 28
Emmaline Henry
1928 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 8
Claudia Jennings
1949 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 10
Dorothy Arzner
1897 – 1979 · Entertainers Oct 10
Edvin Adolphson
1893 – 1979 · Actors Oct 10
Eleanor Robson Belmont
1879 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 10
Elizabeth Bishop
1911 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Oct 10
Jean Huntley
1893 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 10
Lasse Dahlquist
1910 – 1979 · Actors Oct 10
Celia Lovsky
1897 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 12
Clarence Muse
1889 – 1979 · Actors, Director Oct 13
Eleanor Belmont
1879 – 1979 · Actresses Oct 24
Park Chung-hee
1917 – 1979 · Politicians Oct 26
Bob Clayton
1922 – 1979 · Entertainers Nov 1
Mamie Eisenhower
1896 – 1979 · Politicians, US First Ladies Nov 1
Amedeo Nazzari
1907 – 1979 · Actors Nov 5
Sydney Tafler
1916 – 1979 · Actors Nov 8
Al Gerald “Al Capp” Capp
1909 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
Anders Ek
1916 – 1979 · Actors Nov 11
Don Post
1902 – 1979 · Business Magnates Nov 11
Peter Kiewit
1900 – 1979 Nov 11
Merle Oberon
1911 – 1979 · Actresses Nov 23
Joyce Grenfell
1910 – 1979 · Actresses Nov 30
Zeppo Marx
1901 – 1979 · Actors Nov 30
Ann Dvorak
1911 – 1979 · Actresses Dec 10
Claire Carleton
1913 – 1979 · Actresses Dec 11
Clara Endresse
1898 – 1979 · Actresses Dec 12
Eduardo Blanco Amor
1897 – 1979 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
Hilo Hattie
1901 – 1979 · Actresses Dec 12
Jon Hall
1915 – 1979 · Actors Dec 12
Mari Andriessen
1897 – 1979 · Artists and Architects Dec 12
Ernest Schoedsack
1893 – 1979 · Director, Film Director Dec 23
Joan Blondell
1906 – 1979 · Actresses, Singer Dec 25
Lee Bowman
1914 – 1979 · Actors Dec 25

Celebrity Deaths in the 1970s

Bas Jan Ader

Buttermilk

Frank Vincent Brach

George M. Humphrey

Heenan Elliott

Heihachiro Fukuda

Ichiro Ishikawa

James Edwards

Julie Suedo

Lawren Harris

Maurice Gauvin

Pancho Cossío

Robert Harriot Barrat

Robert Mantle Rattenbury

Shigeru Nanbara

Teddy Burns Goulet

William Thomas Piper, Sr

Max Born

Robert Barrat

Pavel I. Belyayev

Betty Ross Clarke

Malcolm Keen

Abraham Washington “Abe” Attell

Bertrand Russell

David Frisch

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Tatzumbie DuPea

Jay Eaton

Edward Selzer

Conrad Nagel

Vera Brittain

William “One-Shot” Beaudine

Peter Godfrey

William Hopper

Alec Clunes

Tammi Terrell

William Beaudine

Del Lord

Patricia Ellis

Cathy O’Donnell

Ed Begley, Sr

Marda Vanne

Max Bozyk

Paul Celan

William “1st Baron Strathalmond” Fraser

David Mountbatten

Anita Louise

Gypsy Rose Lee

Inger Stevens

Charles E. Fredericks

Kenneth L. Kling

Martin Branner

Nigel Balchin

Nydia Westman

Mari Blanchard

Mari Blanchard

Johnny Hodges

Billie Burke

Delia Akeley

Arkle

Terry Sawchuk

Mitzi Hajos

Sonny Tufts

Frank Charles Laubach

Geraldine Wall

Mitzi Hajos

Prudencia Grifell

Sukarno

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