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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1971 January 7 Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at age 60. [1] Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at age 64. [1] January 8 Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at age 85. [1] January 10 Gabrielle "Coco", Chanel French fashion designer, dies at age 87. [1] January 13 Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, German SS-General/contractor (Tulle), dies at age 65. [1] Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de Mañara), dies at age 69. [1] Robert Still, composer, dies at age 60. [1] January 14 Ethel Glenn Hier, composer, dies at age 82. [1] January 15 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at age 50. [1] 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 (Senator-Democrat-Georgia), dies at age 73. [1] February 1 Jim A J Christy, cricketer (10 Tests for South Africa, 638 runs at 34 33), dies. [1] February 3 Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at age 72. [1] February 5 Mátyás Rákosi; Hungarian premier (1952-56), dies at age 78. [1] February 11 Whitney Young Jr, 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] February 15 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at age 63. [1] February 17 Teddy Hart, actor (Three Men on a Horse), dies at age 73. [1] February 21 Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at age 79. [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] Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at age 82. [1] February 23 King Lockwood dies of stroke at age 73. [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 9 Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer, dies at age 36. [1] March 10 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at age 92. [1] March 11 Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at age 64. [1] [5] Roy Glenn dies in Los Angeles at age 56. [1] Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at age 49. [1] March 13 Piero Coppola, composer, dies at age 82. [1] 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] Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Victoria and Australia), dies. [1] Thomas E Dewey, US Presidential candidate (Republican 1944, 1948), dies at age 68. [1] March 17 Ernst Bachmeister, writer, dies. [1] March 18 George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v 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 22 Martin Bodmer, writer, dies. [1] March 23 Armin Loos, composer, dies at age 67. [1] Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at age 72. [1] March 28 Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at age 78. [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 16 Mihály Váci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at age 46. [1] April 17 Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 18 Masao Oki, composer, dies at age 69. [1] 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 25 Max Drischner, composer, dies at age 80. [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] Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at age 83. [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 10 Mihail Jora, composer, dies at age 79. [1] Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at age 75. [1] May 12 J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies. [1] May 13 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67. [1] May 19 Bernard Wagenaar, Netherlands/US composer, dies at age 76. [1] 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 Mark Brunswick, composer, dies at age 69. [1] 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 29 Max Trapp, composer, dies at age 83. [1] May 30 Audie Murphy, WWII hero/actor (Sierra, Whispering Smiths), killed in plane crash at age 46. [1] Marcel Dupré, French composer, dies at age 85. [1] Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at age 66. [1] May 31 Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wickets in 14 Tests after age 46), dies. [1] Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at age 75. [1] Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at age 78. [1] June 10 Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at age 61. [1] June 24 Kenneth Washington, actor (Sargeant Baker - Hogan's Heroes), dies at age 53. [1] June 28 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at age 48. [1] July 3 Jim Morrison, rocker (The Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris, France. [1] July 6 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician ("Hello Dolly"), dies at age 70. [1] July 11 Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at age 64. [1] July 17 Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at age 76. [1] July 23 Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at age 60. [1] July 28 Diane Arbus, photographer, commits suicide at age 48. [1] August 17 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at age 64. [1] August 27 Bennett Cerf (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at age 73. [1] September 7 Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at age 84. [1] 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 Gene Vincent, rocker, dies at age 36. [1] 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 Hugo Godron, composer, dies at age 71. [1] 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 Jr, 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 dies of a massive brain hemorrhage, at age 78. [6] December 22 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at age 58. [1] Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at age 63. [1] December 23 Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at age 84. [1] December 25 Byron Arnold, composer, dies at age 70. [1] December 26 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at age 57. [1] December 28 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at age 83. [1] December 29 Stuart Holmes dies of stomach ailment at age 87. [1] December 30 Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at age 58. [1] Jan Mul, composer, dies at age 60. [1] December 31 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at age 31. [1]