- January 16
- Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at age 68. [1]
- January 18
- Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at age 80. [1]
- January 20
- Gilbert M Anderson, actor (first Movie Cowboy), dies at age 88. [1]
- January 21
- Richard B Russell, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Georgia), dies at age 73. [1]
- February 1
- Jim A J Christy, cricket player (10 Tests for South Africa, 638 runs at 34 33), dies. [1]
- February 3
- Death of Jay C Flippen at age 72 of an aneurism during surgery; radio announcer for the New York Yankees, game show hosts, actor C.P.O. Nelson - Ensign O'Toole TV show (1962)). [1] [457]
- February 5
- Mátyás Rákosi; Hungarian premier (1952-56), dies at age 78. [1]
- February 11
- Whitney Young Junior, US National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria. [1]
- February 12
- George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at age 86. [1]
- James Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney), dies at age 95. [1]
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- February 17
- Teddy Hart, actor (Three Men on a Horse), dies at age 73. [1]
- February 22
- Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at age 81. [1]
- Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at age 77. [1]
- February 26
- Edward van der Merwe, cricket keeper (South Africa in two Tests in 1930s), dies. [1]
- Joseph Desire Fernandel, French actor/comedian (Death of Champion), dies of cancer at age 67. [1]
- Tullio Carminati, actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at age 76. [1]
- March 2
- Charles W Engelhard; US silver multi-millionaire, dies at age 54. [1]
- March 5
- Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at age 71. [1]
- March 6
- Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at age 74. [1]
- March 8
- Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at age 77. [1]
- March 11
- Death of Philo T. Farnsworth at age 64; US TV pioneer, first to demonstrate and patent a working electronic television system. [1] [5] [457]
- Whitney M Young Junior, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at age 49. [1]
- March 12
- Actor David Burns dies onstage of a heart attack at age 70 during a performance of 70 Girls 70 in Philadelphia. [467]
- March 13
- Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at age 88. [1]
- March 15
- Jean-Pierre Monseré, Flemish cyclist, dies at age 22. [1]
- March 16
- Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at age 70. [1]
- Leslie "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, cricket player (Victoria and Australia), dies. [1]
- Thomas E Dewey, US Presidential candidate (Republican 1944, 1948), dies at age 68. [1]
- March 18
- George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (versus South Africa 1924), dies. [1]
- March 19
- Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at age 82. [1]
- Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at age 79. [1]
- March 23
- Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at age 72. [1]
- March 30
- Selmer Jackson, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at age 82. [1]
- March 31
- Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at age 31. [1]
- April 3
- Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at age 66. [1]
- Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at age 65. [1]
- April 6
- Igor F Stravinsky, Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies in New York at age 88. [1]
- April 7
- Charles F Pahud de Mortanges (Olympics-gold-1928, 1932), dies at age 74. [1]
- April 14
- Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies. [1]
- April 17
- Death of Carmen Lombardo of cancer at age 67; younger brother of bandleader Guy Lombardo, singer/saxophonist (The Royal Canadians), songwriter ("Coquette", "Boo Hoo", "Seems Like Old Times", "Sweethearts on Parade", and "Get Out Those Old Records"). [457]
- April 20
- Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at age 73. [1]
- April 21
- Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at age 81. [1]
- François "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at age 64. [1]
- April 23
- William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-71), dies at age 76. [1]
- April 30
- Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at age 70. [1]
- May 1
- Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at age 75. [1]
- Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at age 66. [1]
- May 4
- Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at age 88. [1]
- Louis de Bree [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at age 87. [1]
- May 5
- Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at age 81. [1]
- Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia. [1]
- May 6
- Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at age 70. [1]
- May 7
- Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at age 83. [1]
- May 12
- J M Taylor, cricket player (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies. [1]
- May 19
- Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at age 68. [1]
- May 21
- Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at age 73. [1]
- May 25
- Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas - Johnny Ringo), dies at age 62. [1]
- May 26
- John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at age 70. [1]
- May 27
- Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at age 62. [1]
- May 28
- Death of Audie Murphy at age 46 in a plane crash; most decorated American GI of WWII (27 US decorations plus 5 decorations from France and Belgium), actor (Whispering Smith TV show (1961), Sierra). [1] [457]
- May 30
- Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at age 66. [1]
- May 31
- Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, cricket player (74 wickets in 14 Tests after age 46), dies. [1]
- June 5
- Longevity guru Jerome Rodale dies during the taping of the Dick Cavett Show at age 72. [467]
- June 10
- Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at age 61. [1]
- June 24
- Death of Kenneth Washington at age 53; actor (Sargeant Baker - Hogan's Heroes TV show). [1] [457]
- July 3
- Death of James Douglas Morrison AKA Jim Morrison at age 27, found dead in a bathtub in Paris, France; lead singer and lyricist (The Doors). [1] [5] [457]
- Death of Dorothy A. Kabis, US Treasurer. [640.65]
- July 6
- Death of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong after a heart attack at age 69; trumpeter and vocalist (Grammy 1965 Best Male Vocal Performance for "Hello Dolly", Lifetime Achievement Grammy 1972, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1990). [1] [457]
- July 11
- Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at age 64. [1]
- July 17
- Death of Cliff Edwards AKA Ukulele Ike at age 76; singer (54th Street Revue), the voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket, national radio show from 1932, and thrice-weekly TV show from 1949. [1] [457]
- July 23
- Death of Van Heflin at age 60 after a heart attack; actor (Playhouse 90), narrator (The Great Adventure). [1] [457]
- August 7
- Death of Henry D. (Homer) Haynes at age 51 of a heart attack; country comedy duo of Homer and Jethro ("The Battle of Kookamonga", "That Hound Dog in the Window"). [457]
- August 17
- Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at age 64. [1]
- August 27
- Death of Bennett Cerf at age 73; head of publisher Random House, panellist on What's My Line TV game show. [1] [457]
- September 7
- Death of Spring Byington at age 84; actress (Lily Ruskin - December Bride). [1] [457]
- September 9
- Billy Gilbert, actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at age 76. [1]
- September 11
- Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77. [1]
- Percy Helton, actor (Homer - The Beverly Hillbillies), dies at age 77. [1]
- September 20
- James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at age 59. [1]
- October 12
- Death of Gene Vincent at age 36 of a ruptured stomach ulcer; rockabilly pioneer ("Be-Bop-a-Lula" (1956)). [1] [457]
- October 29
- Duane Allman dies at age 24 in a motorcycle accident. [1]
- November 17
- Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret - The Rogues), dies at age 83. [1]
- November 19
- Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at age 64. [1]
- November 28
- Wasfi Tal, Jordan's Prime Minister, assassinated in Cairo, Egypt. [1]
- December 1
- Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at age 93. [1]
- December 4
- Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies. [1]
- December 5
- Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies. [1]
- December 6
- Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at age 86. [1]
- December 7
- Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at age 90. [1]
- December 9
- Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at age 67 in New York City, New York. [1]
- December 10
- Jozef Cals, Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at age 57. [1]
- December 12
- David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at age 80. [1]
- Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at age 43. [1]
- Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated. [1]
- John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at age 47. [1]
- December 13
- Max Mell, Austrian artillery officer/literary, dies at age 88. [1]
- December 18
- Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at age 61. [1]
- Bobby Jones Junior, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at age 69. [1]
- Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at age 45. [1]
- December 20
- Roy Oliver Disney, co-founder of Walt Disney Company, dies of a massive brain hemorrhage, at age 78. [6]
- December 22
- Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at age 58. [1]
- December 26
- Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at age 57. [1]
- December 30
- Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at age 58. [1]
- December 31
- Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at age 31. [1]
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