Westbrook Pegler	American Journalist	August 2
Lord Thomson of Fleet	Canadian Publisher	June 5
Konosuke Matsushita	Japanese Businessman	November 27
King Edward VIII	English Royalty	June 23
Jean Toomer	American Author	December 26
Jean Rostand	French Scientist	October 30
Jean Rhys	English Novelist	August 24
Jean Renoir	French Director	May 15
James Thurber	American Comedian	December 8
Jacques-Henri Lartigue	French Photographer	June 13
Jack Benny	American Comedian	February 14
J. B. Priestley	British Writer	September 13
Isaac Babel	Russian Journalist	July 13
Irving Mills	American Musician	January 16
Louis-Ferdinand Celine	French Writer	May 27
Mark Van Doren	American Poet	June 13
Warren Weaver	American Scientist	July 17
Walter Piston	American Composer	January 20
Tommy Armour	Scottish Athlete	September 24
Susan Ertz	English Novelist
Roy Thomson	Canadian Publisher	June 5
Robert Menzies	Australian Statesman	December 20
Rachel Field	American Novelist	September 19
Peter Warlock	English Composer	October 30
Norman Rockwell	American Artist	February 3
Norbert Wiener	American Mathematician	November 26
Nikita Khrushchev	Russian Statesman	April 17
Moshe Sharett	Israeli Statesman	October 15
Martha Graham	American Dancer	May 11
Hermann Oberth	German Scientist	June 25
Henry Hazlitt	American Philosopher	November 28
Dashiell Hammett	American Author	May 27
Charles Reznikoff	American Poet	August 31
Charles Morgan	British Novelist	January 22
Brooks Atkinson	American Critic	November 28
Bessie Smith	American Musician	April 15
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon	American Businessman
Benjamin Graham	American Economist	May 8
Ben Nicholson	British Artist	April 10
Ben Hecht	American Writer	February 28
Beatrice Lillie	Canadian Actress	May 29
Arthur Freed	American Producer	September 9
Andre Kertesz	Hungarian Photographer	July 2
Alfred Kinsey	American Scientist	June 23
Dora Russell	English Celebrity	April 3
e. e. cummings	American Poet	October 14
Harold MacMillan	English Politician	February 10
Gerald Brenan	English Writer
Georges Guynemer	French Aviator	December 24
Georges Carpentier	French Athlete	January 12
George Meany	American Activist	August 16
Gavrilo Princip	Revolutionary	July 25
Fritz Sauckel	German Soldier	October 27
Fred Allen	American Comedian	May 31
Ford Frick	American Journalist	December 19
F. L. Lucas	English Critic
Edward VIII	English Royalty	June 23
E. Stanley Jones	American Theologian
E. Franklin Frazier	American Sociologist	September 24
Aldous Huxley	English Novelist	July 26