Zora Neale Hurston	American Dramatist	January 7
Michael Polanyi	Hungarian Scientist	March 11
Maxwell Bodenheim	American Poet	May 26
Max Ernst	German Artist	April 2
Mainbocher	American Designer
Louis A. Johnson	American Public Servant	January 10
Leo Burnett	American Businessman	October 21
John William McCormack	American Politician	December 21
Jacques Lipchitz	Polish Sculptor	August 22
Ilya Ehrenburg	Ukrainian Writer	January 27
Nelly Sachs	German Poet	December 10
Otto Dix	German Artist	December 2
Walther Bothe	German Physicist	January 8
W. Averell Harriman	American Politician	November 15
Ted Shawn	American Dancer	October 21
Storm Jameson	English Writer	January 8
Stanley Spencer	English Artist	June 30
Sidney Howard	American Playwright	June 26
Sergei Prokofiev	Russian Composer	April 23
Rudolf Carnap	German Philosopher	May 18
Ronald Colman	English Actor	February 9
Hu Shih	Chinese Philosopher	December 17
Henry Miller	American Author	December 26
Georgia Harkness	American Theologian	April 21
Earl Browder	American Activist	May 20
Douglas Horton	American Clergyman	July 27
David Sarnoff	American Inventor	February 27
David Low	British Cartoonist	April 7
Charles Munch	French Musician	September 26
Brenda Ueland	American Writer	October 24
B. R. Ambedkar	Indian Politician	April 14
Arthur Hays Sulzberger	American Publisher	September 12
Antonio Gramsci	Italian Politician	January 23
Earl Warren	American Judge	March 19
Edith Stein	German Saint	October 12
Fritz Todt	German Soldier	September 4
Frederick Kelly	American Athlete	September 12
Fanny Brice	American Comedian	October 29
Esther Forbes	American Author	June 28
Erwin Rommel	German Soldier	November 15
Ely Culbertson	American Writer	June 22
Elliot Paul	American Journalist	February 10
Ellen Wilkinson	English Politician	October 8
Edward Bernays	Austrian Celebrity	November 22
Al Dubin	Swiss Musician	June 10